How Did I Get Here?

I knew keyboard shortcuts. People would ask me for my help. Now I cringe when I see a CTRL key. What does it mean? Backspace, I remember a Backspace key in high school learning to type of a Remington typewriter.  How did I get here?  

I was a Windows Guy. I was comfortable. My first computer was a Design 1 manufactured by Morrow Design. I learned to "cut-and-paste" to the dismay of my dissertation committee.  Thanks to a research grant, I upgraded to an IBM 3270 PC. Then thanks to an another grant, I gain access to the new 386, but I had to decide: Compaq or IBM?  Big Blue won out! With a math coprocessor, it was wicked fast.  

From the mid-80s to the early 2000s, I owned and used a myriad of DOS and Windows computers. I had manuals.  I collected floppy disks of operating systems and programs. I hung-out with Larry, my favorite lounge lizard.  It was a magical time.  

In the early 90s, I purchased a lunchbox size "portable" phone: 25-cent a minute! In the ensuing years, portable phones became smaller.  The only occasional interaction my computers and phones had was backing up my address book.  But it all changed in 2007: I bought an iPhone. For the first time, I was connecting my portable phone to my computer regularly. They communicated with iTunes; why did I need iTunes, I had CDs.  

But there were apps, but my Dell crashed over and over again when it talk to my iPhone via iTunes. So I purchased an iMac (Aluminum Unibody): Gone was my tower, and in its place was a slick computer just under an inch thick. I didn't know then, but I started on a journey to the world of Apple and other technologies, which I plan to share with whomever finds this website.