its weird being 18, 19, 20 in 2016 because i remember going into kindergarten and seeing those chunky ass giant computers at the desk and then going through school while technology rapidly develops and graduate in a world where people can have the entire internet and more just in their pocket like idk its so strange to me

sorry to add to the post but I remember in 5th grade when they invented the “smart whiteboard” and my school won one for the library and everyone lost their shit because they were so expensive and I graduated high school last year and by the time I graduated every single classroom had one. Watching technology go from glitchy and expensive to powerful and affordable within less than ten years continues to blow my mind

i remember in 6th grade someone broke the projector and my teacher freaked out bc it was her first year and smartboards existed but she hadnt gotten one yet and now we dig out the old prehistoric projector from the depths of the storage rooms for stage crew when we need to draw something precisely on a set piece and we literally have to wipe layers of dust off of it before we use it

Meanwhile I’m 36 and thinking, wtf is a smart board

It’s a special electronic whiteboard that you can connect to a computer and use as a big screen; you write on it with light pens rather than ordinary dry erase markers. They were getting popular in New Zealand schools when I was a teacher but I never learned to use one; never got one for my room.

Generation 90s Overhead Projector here. I loved the see-thru paper for those. Our grade school didn’t have anything like a computer lab but we did have a decrepit Macintosh Plus that I used for a school paper assignment in 6th Grade. 

In high school I did some very basic animation on a Mac (don’t remember which kind but it did have a tower) as an art project while a friend brough in his Phantom Menace Soundtrack CD to play from it. We did have computer classes in high school as well, but I don’t remember what kind they were but they were connected to the actual internet (circa 1998), and we did have an assignment to create an email address. 

But we still had a card catalogue index in the school library.

Trust me, technological progress and immersion in schools has been weird for a long time. 

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