This blog was started on July 23, 2005 and today marks the 20 year anniversary of this blog. In May of 2022, I decided to archive any posts before the year 2015 as they were quite dated. Making universal images for Windows 2000 and XP? Yeah, I don’t think anyone is interested in that anymore. Just for kicks: if you are feeling a bit nostalgic, you can read the old posts I saved to PDF format here. My entry point into computers started when my parents bought me my first computer in November 1993 which was delivered in December 1993. 31 years ago, wow where did the time go? I started off on Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.0, quickly upgrading to MS-DOS 6.0 a few days later with the 3.5 floppy diskettes I was given. It was a 486-SX 33 MHz, 4MB of RAM, 250MB hard drive, 2400 baud modem, 14inch AOC monitor, and a BJC-200 bubblejet ink printer from Milwaukee PC all for the low price of $1799.
Incidentally, I work less than 2 miles from the store where my first computer was purchased. 25 years after that event, I would be working in the technology department as a Systems Administrator.
Who knows where I will be working 20 years from today, will I still be alive?
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
-Soli Deo Gloria