Daily Archives: July 21, 2023

Introduction Hello, and welcome to The Geeky Boomer podcast! I’m your host, PixelPia, and in today’s episode, we’ll embark on a nostalgic journey into my early encounters with computers and the emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Join me as we delve into the tech-savvy times of Sweden during the 1990s. Early Days in Education Let’s start back in 1988, the year I earned my teacher’s degree and landed my first assignment as a full-time substitute teacher. My job involved filling in for absent teachers and providing extra support in certain classes. We were already ahead of the curve at this school, embracing multimedia resources like CD-ROMs. However, we lacked a CD-ROM player I wanted for educational purposes. Learning to Install a CD-ROM Determined to equip the teachers’ computers with a CD-ROM player, I took matters into my own hands. Remember, this was the early ’90s, and […]