Brett Leppert's Technobiography

All things considered, I would say that I grew up somewhat behind the technology curve. Ussually, my family would get whatever was out there about 8 months after it had come out and all my friends were allready bored with it, or when something else had come out to replace it. I grew up with a tv and a vhs player in my living room that me and my older brother watched Fraggle Rock videos on when we weren't wearing out the batteries in our Teddy Ruxpin. I got introduced to the computer sometime when I was in elementary school when my dad brought home one of those Macintosh 128ks in the late 90s, about ten years after it had come out. It was one of those computers that you could play the floppy disk games like Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, or Leisure Suit Larry if your parents weren't paying attention. We upgraded computers a few times; whenever someone we knew was getting a new one, we'd buy their old one that would almost always be too slow to even enjoy using. I found out about AOL and AIM when the internet got big and I played around with those until facebook came out. I did eventually get a laptop of my own, but not until I was going away to college so, having to share the family computer growing up, I didn't spend as much time on it as other people may have.
I grew up with a few toys and gadgets, but typically played with the same ones most of the time. When Home Alone II came out, my brother got one of those Talkboys and we used that nonstop until it broke. An older cousin gave me his old Nintendo when I was probably 10 and I still play it today, although I just got the Wii system so it may get boxed up for a while. Aside from the Wii, I have been making progress in terms of new technology the past few months. I just got a flipcamera, which is the first camera that I've owned. I bought an Ipod, but it got stolen so it will be awhile before I get another. And I'm considering upgrading from my go-phone to maybe a Razer, or something like that.