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Do you feel like you are always waiting for something?  I do. All the time!  I am not sure why I feel this way but seems like something important is about to happen, and when it does - That’s IT!  It’s all over - no more waiting!

Now we know that is not true - we wait for things to happen all the time, and then there’s more waiting after that!  We wait for the weekend, for a party, for a holiday, for the next pay day, for that great lottery win, for the cows to come home!

I get tired of waiting too. I guess saying is - stop waiting for things to happen! MAKE them happen! We why do we have to do that?  Things will just happen anyway - right?

I also have a hard time waiting for other people to get my task done. You know, sometimes you have something to do and it would be done already - if that person you rely one would just do the part they are supposed to. I guess I am a bit impatient here - not very calm when my task depends on others.

Patience is definately a learned task. People are not born with it - and it can take years to master. We all have to rely on the “waiting machine” with everything we do. We wait for the light to change, (now I have seen some VERY impatient people at lights!) we wait for service in restaurants, we wait in lines sometimes just to go to the bathroom.

Then - when we tire from waiting - we wish!  Ah- now that’s where we get into a great deal of trouble!  We wish they would all hurry up!

As my mom used to say - “Your going to wish your life away!”  Maybe I should just be comfortable waiting…

Just the other day I started thinking about technology and how far it has gone in just - drum roll please - 20 YEARS?  Yes that is correct - only 20 years ago everyday folks started buying computers for their home. Now obviously there were some geeky ones out there that might have had one earlier - but really the populous just started about 20 years ago.

If you think about it - we have come a long way!  In fact cell phones have not been around too long either - but my children do not remember a time when they did not have these luxuries.

Here are some interesting facts!  Be careful - this has a danger of making you feel old!

Historical Tech Facts:

1. The URL: http://akebono.stanford.edu/ used to be the original home of Yahoo!
2. Domain registration was free until the National Science Foundation decided to change this on September 14th, 1995.
3. In 1993, Boeing was the first to discover the Y2K problem.
4. Lee Stein invented the first online electronic bank in 1994 entitled, “First Virtual Holdings”.
5. The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) was CompuServe which is now under control of AOL Time Warner.

More information abounds at the Computer History Museum - Online of course!

I find this all very interesting and some may not - but it’s definately hard to remember the day when we had a small black and white TV, one phone (connected to a party line) - I bet some of you don’t even know what that is!  We did not have a computer, cell phone, the internet and if I wanted to look something up - I had to go to the library (still very limited in a small town!) and find out where to go from there. Most of the time you gave up the search before finding the information.

I feel very fortunate to be in the world today - we are so informed and enlightened. We have a world of information at our fingertips and use it daily - (Just like I did for this Blog!)