Computer stories #8 -History of my Display/Monitors
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Source: contest
I remember the first time I ever saw a computer in my life. That was during primary school when they were teaching us computer studies.
The teacher caught me talking in class while she was teaching components of the computer. She stood me up and pointed towards the “monitor.” She asked me what the name was.
With all confidence, I mentioned, “white television.”
Everyone laughed at me.
In the 90s, computers weren't as popular as they are now. We only saw computers in movies. If you happened to see a computer in someone's house, you knew that person was very rich.
The first computer my mom bought for us was actually a fairly used Pentium One computer. The monitor actually looked like a white television. Then, you saw one rectangular box that was the central processing unit (CPU). This CPU was always overheating because of the way we used it.
It's not as if we were even doing anything reasonable with the computer. They bought it for us to study, but we turned it into a video game machine. We would go to ICT shops to buy games on CDs. My favorite games then were Soccer Winning Eleven and Warcraft. I have always loved adventurous games. I can type fast on a keyboard, thanks to all those games.
During one of those heavy rainstorms, the lightning damaged some of our appliances at home, and our computer wasn't left out. Getting a good monitor wasn't really easy. We actually needed a size a little bigger than the previous monitor that didn't overheat.
We didn't know much about computers. All we knew was just how to play games. So, we went with a computer technician to those ICT hubs, thinking this man knew what he was doing. This guy didn't know anything. Just because we demanded a clearer version and a bigger screen size as specifications, that was the only thing he got for us. Then he asked if we wanted inbuilt or external speakers.
We were expecting him to ask all those technical questions people ask whenever they want to buy a phone, but he didn't. He just carried the HP monitor along with him after paying. This time, the monitor was simply a “black flatscreen TV”… lol.
This monitor hadn't stayed with us for up to two months before one of those connectors at the back of the monitor, where you connect your wire to the CPU, started giving challenges. Sometimes, we would be enjoying our game, and the monitor would just go blank. We tried to manage it for another month before it got bad
That was the last time we ever saw anything desktop in the house because my mum wasn’t ready to get a new one. It was packed aside until we grew old enough to get ourselves a laptop. That’s one of my computer stories.
