Computer Science

One of the first few things I remember in my early childhood was the computer my dad owned. He was one of the first members of America Online. I spent hours playing games on his computer, and many time he'd play a game where we'd hide a file on the computer and the other person would try to find it. A computerized Hide and Seek, if you will. I remember setting up a data base just so I could keep track of my comic book collection. When I was finally allowed to browse the internet on my own, that was a huge day. Two leap years ago I started my first web site called Phlogiston. Sure it was awful and full of nothing but inside jokes, but it all came together to show what direction I wanted to go in my life. I even took every single computer related course in my small country private high school with my graduating class a whopping 69 people.

I witnessed the .com boom. I witnessed its collapse. I watch the MMORPG craze start out and even still its flourishing. I saw Google start with an unconventional unlavish web browser and become something that even scares Microsoft.

The funny thing is that people of my grandparent's (and some of my parent's) generation take complete aversion to the internet and computers completely. I guess its the whole new technology thing that scares them off.

I have an ulterior motive for this blog however. Where do you think the future of computer science is going? Do you think the age barrier will ever be broken?