Warning this is long as I address some points so if you are on a cell phone please don't bother reading it as it will likely not show correctly on the small screens as I have found out from other people when I was wondering why a lot of folks don't seem to read text on the internet very well only giving half answers or saying stuff the OP usually already pointed out if they had read further on.
Dad who has always been our computer fix it person of the house and even has built custom ones and learned to program a little bit on the Commodore 64 back in the late 80s till we got a PC around 1990 which I grew up on lots of fun edutainment programs that kicked Reader Rabbit in the teeth. (which I will explain later)
Anyways it seems in the early 2000s computers were the height of the world with a lot of focus on web innovation the idea of researching genealogy (hard to spell for some reason) and historical newspapers were once starting to become popular as various groups were scanning microfilm. It seemed the internet was headed to become "a library in a box" by the 2020s where all you may need would be a library card to access great resources but since 2008 progress has slowed or stopped while commercial stuff seems to have boomed. We watched a recent hour long documentary to see what was going on and found out that around that time Google seemed to shift to ad sense and smartphones which are great for being on the go but most people use it for commercial purposes leaving academic/historical researches like Dad and me in the dust.
One business in a small town along the border of Arizona makes custom boots for 500$ and up getting TONS of traffic thru ad sense which he could not survive in that town which is a blip on the radar to most people unless they travel thru a lot.
Google once provided useful products like the Google Books and even had their own NewsPaper archives which I will make a separate post about. They were going to come out with THEIR VERY OWN NOTEBOOKS!!! But canceled it around the same time the Smart Phone trend started booming.
In fact back in the early 2000s *pre 2008* we learned a lot about our ancestors which were all over the UK and have some very amazing stories behind them thanks to the internet as we cannot hope to afford the travel to actually do it but someday we can save up to go to Ohio here in the USA to do some researching which is a lot more likely then going to Europe!
Our family has a lot of ties in Granville Ohio which we found out because Dad had to deliver some medicine by accident to a small town here in Oregon (He is a compound pharmacy in a small business making medication for the area's hospitals which the business has a high reputation in the area) and we decided to stop by their historical archives because we had the time and don't have one where we live.
One thing led to another which got me interested in historical research but it seem since smartphones taking over everybody is now just interested in games and shopping.
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On that documentary it was quit shocking to learn that most young people and strangely Asians have never even touched a regular computer and went straight for phones which companies like Microsoft and Google have shifted focus on with Apple's cell phone/Microsoft's OS and Google's Android which I won't touch any of em. *ewwwwwww!*
I don't care if the phones can sing n dance but I refuse to do reading on a tiny 10" screen. 😛
I'd buy a notebook before I go for one of those things.
It seems the main industry drivers are stuck on assuming everybody wants a phone even though it's just a selected group that has a loud voice.
Microsoft sucks now having Windows 8 trying to look like a phone wrecking the experience on computers and Google trying to imitate FaceBook with Google + making it really glitchy and most people didn't never wanted it and still don't based on a lot of threads which I agree with except for the swear words used in some of them cussing the company out.
In fact I can't help but wonder if those who cussed the company out ruined the only chance of Google rolling back their changes making the company think that anybody who doesn't like Google Plus is a *flamer* so only read select reviews that are positive since they don't cuss usually totally ignoring those that dislike the features who know how not to swear.
I have a theory that has to do with the 32 bit to 64 bit change that made a lot of people give up on computers but I want to see YOU'RE answers first and I also think that a lot of the cell phone people have never touched computers because all they lack the knowledge of how they operate so all they saw were either at work or school using them as glorified typewriters with a third group only seeing Reader Rabbit so they say to themselves "This sucks I'll just stick to my Nintendo/Sega" instead!!! as a lot of teachers were not trained during the *golden era* to use them as learning tools until recently which I think may be too late.
Dad who has always been our computer fix it person of the house and even has built custom ones and learned to program a little bit on the Commodore 64 back in the late 80s till we got a PC around 1990 which I grew up on lots of fun edutainment programs that kicked Reader Rabbit in the teeth. (which I will explain later)
Anyways it seems in the early 2000s computers were the height of the world with a lot of focus on web innovation the idea of researching genealogy (hard to spell for some reason) and historical newspapers were once starting to become popular as various groups were scanning microfilm. It seemed the internet was headed to become "a library in a box" by the 2020s where all you may need would be a library card to access great resources but since 2008 progress has slowed or stopped while commercial stuff seems to have boomed. We watched a recent hour long documentary to see what was going on and found out that around that time Google seemed to shift to ad sense and smartphones which are great for being on the go but most people use it for commercial purposes leaving academic/historical researches like Dad and me in the dust.
One business in a small town along the border of Arizona makes custom boots for 500$ and up getting TONS of traffic thru ad sense which he could not survive in that town which is a blip on the radar to most people unless they travel thru a lot.
Google once provided useful products like the Google Books and even had their own NewsPaper archives which I will make a separate post about. They were going to come out with THEIR VERY OWN NOTEBOOKS!!! But canceled it around the same time the Smart Phone trend started booming.
In fact back in the early 2000s *pre 2008* we learned a lot about our ancestors which were all over the UK and have some very amazing stories behind them thanks to the internet as we cannot hope to afford the travel to actually do it but someday we can save up to go to Ohio here in the USA to do some researching which is a lot more likely then going to Europe!
Our family has a lot of ties in Granville Ohio which we found out because Dad had to deliver some medicine by accident to a small town here in Oregon (He is a compound pharmacy in a small business making medication for the area's hospitals which the business has a high reputation in the area) and we decided to stop by their historical archives because we had the time and don't have one where we live.
One thing led to another which got me interested in historical research but it seem since smartphones taking over everybody is now just interested in games and shopping.
2.
On that documentary it was quit shocking to learn that most young people and strangely Asians have never even touched a regular computer and went straight for phones which companies like Microsoft and Google have shifted focus on with Apple's cell phone/Microsoft's OS and Google's Android which I won't touch any of em. *ewwwwwww!*
I don't care if the phones can sing n dance but I refuse to do reading on a tiny 10" screen. 😛
I'd buy a notebook before I go for one of those things.
It seems the main industry drivers are stuck on assuming everybody wants a phone even though it's just a selected group that has a loud voice.
Microsoft sucks now having Windows 8 trying to look like a phone wrecking the experience on computers and Google trying to imitate FaceBook with Google + making it really glitchy and most people didn't never wanted it and still don't based on a lot of threads which I agree with except for the swear words used in some of them cussing the company out.
In fact I can't help but wonder if those who cussed the company out ruined the only chance of Google rolling back their changes making the company think that anybody who doesn't like Google Plus is a *flamer* so only read select reviews that are positive since they don't cuss usually totally ignoring those that dislike the features who know how not to swear.
I have a theory that has to do with the 32 bit to 64 bit change that made a lot of people give up on computers but I want to see YOU'RE answers first and I also think that a lot of the cell phone people have never touched computers because all they lack the knowledge of how they operate so all they saw were either at work or school using them as glorified typewriters with a third group only seeing Reader Rabbit so they say to themselves "This sucks I'll just stick to my Nintendo/Sega" instead!!! as a lot of teachers were not trained during the *golden era* to use them as learning tools until recently which I think may be too late.
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