This isn't a book filled with
dry timelines or technical blueprints of the digital revolution.
Instead, it's a firsthand journey—my
journey—through one of
the most astonishing transformations in human history: the rise of
personal computing and the dawn of the digital age.
This isn't a book filled with dry
timelines or technical blueprints of the digital revolution. Instead,
it's a firsthand journey—my journey—through one of
the most
astonishing transformations in human history: the rise of personal
computing and the dawn of the digital age.
I was born in November 1955, at a time when the word
“computer” was barely whispered outside of military
labs
and universities. My earliest memories include a bulky black-and-white
television with rabbit-ear antennas, broadcasting a single channel.
That flickering screen was my first encounter with electronic
media—a far cry from the high-definition, touch-responsive
world
we live in now.
Over the decades, my path as an engineer and software developer placed
me squarely in the midst of this technological upheaval. I
didn’t
just watch the future arrive—I helped build it, one line of
code
and one innovation at a time.
This book is a personal time capsule—a chronicle of what it
was
really like to live through the shift from analog to digital, from
typewriters to tablets, from rotary phones to the infinite power in our
pockets today. If you're a younger reader curious about how we got
here, or someone who remembers the glow of vacuum tubes and the clack
of punch cards, I invite you to walk with me through the decades.
You may be surprised by how far we’ve come—and how
much we’ve forgotten along the way.
Many of the chapters are identified with the years or periods of time
where these changes occurred.
An old IBM 1620 Mainframe Computer
The
Chapters in this Book:
1.0
Introduction 2.0
Smoke Signals and State Maps 3.0
The Evolution of Television 4.0
1969-The Calculator Cart of Wonders 5.0
1969 Landing the LEM on the Moon 6.0
How Music Technology has Evolved 7.0
1971-Fortran on an IBM 1620 Mainframe 8.0
1970-Keeper of the Sacred Punch Cards 9.0
1972-The Dawn of the Digital Watch 10.0
1973-Video Games Then and Now 11.0
1973-The Rise and Fall of the Mighty Slide Rule 12.0
1973-From Typewriters to Word Processors 13.0
1975-Running Batch Programs in Pascal 14.0
1976 Summer Job Doing Heat Transfer
Analysis 15.0
1978-The Altair 8800 16.0
1982-The Radio Shack Color Computer 17.0
1990-Various Laptop Computers 18.0
1982-1987-Selling Hewlett Packard
Computers 19.0
1980s-Artificial Intelligence Projects 20.0
1984-Early Online Chats with CompuServe 21.0
1990-The Evolution of Digital
Cameras 22.0
1990-Early Internet Usage 23.0
1991-1995-My Computer Business 24.0
1991-2004-My Career in Lotus Notes 25.0
1995-Online Dating &
Relationships 26.0
1997-The Rise of Social Media 27.0
1998-2004-Document Management Systems 28.0
2005-2010-IT Project Management 29.0
The Evolution of Online Publishing 30.0
From Malls to Buying Online 31.0
2009-Building HTML & WordPress
Websites 32.0
2010-The Internet of Things 33.0
2010-Medical Scanning Technologies 34.0
2011-Smart Phones and Navigation 35.0
2014-My Unexpected Journey Behind the
Wheel 36.0
2025-Experimenting With ChatGPT 37.0
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