I think it was sometime around 2007 that I finally couldn’t keep up any more. Until then, for someone who grew up at a time when computers meant FORTRAN and punch cards, I’d always managed to stay one step ahead of the changes in the software and hardware I was using for work and leisure.
Updates and upgrades were to be expected every few years. Part of the cost of doing business, I’d allow myself a few days to learn to use the latest version of Windows, Excel, my browser, my email program, or my computer’s new operating system. Unfortunately, I didn’t always perceive the changes as improvements — for example, programmers’ attempts to make menus and commands more user friendly often just made them more obscure. I’d spend hours trying to rediscover how to do something that I’d handled easily in Word Nth.0 minus 1.
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