With all the demands of work and play depending more and more on electronic computing nowadays, one has to consider computers a basic neccesity already. Believe me, I know. Ours was the generation caught between the traditional and the techy way of learning. As a matter of fact, I only became closely acquainted with the Internet during my last year in College because I was forced to use it for my thesis. Very few encounters with it before that (well maybe except for computer classes in HS).

The countless hours (and money) constructing the texts and graphs for the thesis drafts were the reasons my parents gave in to my request. It was, I told them, my ticket to graduation. So there, I got my first desktop - with a Pentium IV 1.5 GHz processor, 64MB GeForce MX 400 video card, 30 Gigabytes of Hard disk and a 128 MB DDR memory. (The video card was not for the thesis but for those tough moments when one has to take a rest.)

Now, 5 years after, our PC (which is now mine because my parents gave it to me when I left the house), decided to finally take a rest. After all the paper works, countless computing, video playing, and hardcore gaming, it succombed to old age.

We shared a lot of good memories you and I. But I guess you’re time is up. Goodbye old friend! (Good thing we now have a laptop! Hehe!)