Hi,
I'm here to
talk about an object that has special significance in my life, honestly I
couldn’t find one. So I chose one that would be very hard to live without, my
laptop. More importantly the object itself allows me to access the internet and
with that internet, a whole other world of information. Access to the internet
allows me, personally, to look up music, art, movies, videos, movies, and
research such as when the first laptop came to be.
The idea for the a devicethat people could portably move computer data or a transferable computerstarted around the 1970’s but because of the technological limitations they
weren’t able to take it very far. The first commercially available “laptop” was
the size of a portable sewing machine and couldn’t run on battery power. Now
that the world knew that it was in fact possible, development began and
steadily became, this!, over a period of around 40 years, its pretty
significant how fast that is in retrospect considering what I can do with this
object that weighs around 3kgs. And looking around in today’s world, perhaps
the laptop will become overshadowed, if it isn’t already, by things such asiphones, ipads, tablets. Handheld devices that do essentially the same thing,
but you can fit it in your back pocket.
Not too long
ago when I first moved up here to Townsville, the internet had not been set up
and my house is located in a bad reception area, so I was cut off from the
internet and could not use my laptop to its full capabilities and my phone
which I turned to in my time need, couldn’t do anything either. I found that
when the internet was cut off, I felt lost, I couldn’t use my laptop to look up
music, music lyrics, guitar tabs, couldn’t watch movies or TV shows on the
internet, I couldn’t stalk people on facebook, couldn’t access my emails and
JCU accounts, I couldn’t casually Google stuff that I don’t understand. I had built
this entire lifestyle surrounding my laptop and its access to the internet,
that I didn’t even realise how easy it made my life.
I’ve had
this particular laptop for about 3 years, it may be missing a few keys, but it
is very important to me.
