Keyboard Ninjas

I had a great time talking with Sam, Tyeisha, and Bianca about they're first time on the internet. What we all realized we had in common was a magical game called Oregon Trail that you could get online for free. We basically all concluded that crossing any river is a bad idea.

One of the stories I was surprised to hear was that Bianca had a bad experience on Aol chat. I always had instant messenger so I just thought you had to know the person's screen name to talk to them. So maybe after that rant about children on the internet was a little premature.

Tyeisha had a more technical story. She had the old Aol disks that used to come free in the mail. I remember getting thousands of those; I had no idea the internet could come out of them.

Sam remembered how frustrating it was when, “EVERY1 tlkz lke dis” and you had no idea what they were saying. I thought it was funny he didn't know what “lol” meant when people were talking to him. The article might have been somewhat right when it warned that the internet has lead to poor grammar.

Another thing we all agreed on was that the internet taught us to type fast. Instant messaging was, well, instant so we all had to learn to type really fast if we wanted to keep up with our friends. All those secretaries and their fancy classes in typing have nothing on this generation of keyboard ninjas!

Tyeisha's blog can be viewed here: http://priorcom336.blogspot.com/

Bianca's blog can be viewed here: http://biancabrunettecom336.blogspot.com/