Dolfins a gift from Samuel
Excuse me for butting in on the links fun your having. I have something to tell ya.
I'm pretty new to the net and Puters all together. These links are for me, I use them all the time when looking for help. I love playing with html and
making a mess of space on the net. My favorite place to build is Ancientsites, its a cybersite, there are many like it.. one I won't mention but I did
my homework and built it up to my satisfaction, Put many stories and uploaded many gifs, midis, pictures and so on.. took my time and organized the best I knew how
one day I go to the site and find that everyone of my links and stories and pictures are gone.. DEAD links Broken wall paper, NO Files or folders left what-so-ever
as If I had never done a thing. boy was I freaking out.. I went to complain and tell everyone I knew about my Demise.. I got no sympathy.. except from good friends
who couldn't do anything about it anyway
But One new friend Knew just what I needed and promised me a story. I'm over my anger now thanks to Him and I wanted to share with you what he wrote for me to read.
Thank You, Valius Servilius. *hugs*
Your new friend (weather ya want me or not, Arial Caecilius
WOW - Am I Late...
Salve
Arial,
Wha?
called me and said, "I'm thinking about getting a computer...do
you want to go and get one too"? I said, "What are
you going to use it for..."?
Well,
that was in 1969, before such things as monitors and hard
drives. People used punch cards for output and input. I
thought about it and told him that I wanted to read a little more about them before
getting one. We went out and both bought lots of
instead.
Several years went by before Tandy, a Texas
based company anounced that they would be selling a Model I which would hook
up to your TV. Commadore announced the Commadore
"Pet" which had it's own self contained screened monitor. After
talking about it for a couple of months, Ron and I decided it was
time. He picked me up and drove to "Radio Shack".
We each bought computers.
After
getting my computer home Saturday evening I sat down to see what it was all
about. The next morning Sunday, my
though green with envy, brought me coffee.
For the next two days she brought me coffee. I had
not gone to work. 
I had not slept. I
was hooked.
Then
on Tuesday evening when my wife got home, I announced to her, "I had finally
found someone that understands me". What a dumb move. She
stopped bringing me coffee. 
What's that bomb for dear?
She
did let me show her what I had produced. It was an American flag
that took up the first 3/4 of the black and white screen , with little stick figures
across the bottom that alternately jumped up and down as the flag appeared to
wave. That was quite a feat when you consider that in those days,
each of eight pixels had to be turned off or on to form each letter or graphic
spot. That meant to get 1 screen of graphics, you had to set
80x8x24 pixels separately. That's 15,360 pixels to either turn on or
off for each screen. Then to make the graphics move, I needed 4
pages or 61,440 pixels either on or off. Then I promptly went to
bed. 
This
is when it happened! Everyone said that there was a
outage for about 2 hours in the
neighborhood. What did I know about BACKING UP
stuff?
No
No No No...NO NO NO!!!!!!
Can't you do it again
dear? NO-NO-NO-NO!!! Leave me alone!
It's gone!
I
could never redo my 1st - it just couldn't be the 1st again. I think I
was lucky in a way that it happened to me early. I'm known today
as Mr. Back-up 
If you Hiccup, I'll back it up.
The
real lesson is in all of the time since then, I've never AGAIN lost a file that wasn't
backed up but, I have had more than 30 computers and have lost whole hard
drives due to crashes. I once wiped out my whole hard drive
accidently. I then told myself that I needed to redo my drives
anyway. Every time I think I can never make it that good again, it
gets better. I realize now that most of the fun is in the making, so
whenever I have to do something over again, I get to enjoy it all over again and it
comes out better. When people ask me why I spend so much time
doing things for other people, I tell them that I take the opportunity to do the favor
for a person so that I CAN GET THE PLEASURE OUT OF DOING THE
FUN! I'm really doing something for myself...so talk to that
and tell me how we can help too and let's make it
better!
I'm
pretty good at graphics, including original work if a person can tell me what they
need. I also know how to find stuff on the WWW and the Net really
well! 
Bacl to my links © 1999,
