My personal technology milestones

I originally posted this as a response to “1.14: Task: Constructing the Web” in FutureLearn’s  Web Science course in November 2013 and then, slightly updated, as a response to one of the units in FutureLearn’s Digital Marketing course in October 2014:

Unit 2.2 of the course reminded me that one of the (off-piste) exercises I did during the FutureLearn Web Science MOOC (#FLwebsci) last year was to list out my personal technology milestones. You may find this a fascinating exercise too. In some cases it took a lot of digging to find out or remember as I have a very poor memory so this was a challenge!

Some firsts for me personally:-
1) use of a typewriter in the 70s with a black and red ribbon
2) use of an IBM PC in my final year at Stirling University in 1984 after I had handed in my dissertation
3) email: struggled to remember but must have been when I worked at Asda in the late 1980s
4) use of the internet during my time at Yorkshire Electricity as-was in the early 1990s
5) Amazon purchase: November 1998
5) internet connection at home: AOL dial-up in 1999
6) broadband internet connection at home in the mid 2000s (fixed line then wireless)
7) blog post; November 2003
8) tweet: December 2006
9) full mobile access to the internet via a smartphone: 2010
10) tablet device (iPad): 2012
11) started/completed first MOOC Q1/2 2013
12) 1st Zoom call (January 2017)
13) 1st Slack post (January 2017)
14) 1st Workplace from Facebook post (November 2017)

What are yours? Feel free to add/remove milestones for your own list.