Computer Geeks
I have always wondered if people are just born with knowledge of computers or the ability to hold knowledge of them better than others. Some of my friends know so much about computers. They rattle off words like dedicated server or megabyte and expect me to know them (to be honest when I just wrote megabyte I spelled it bite, which shows how much I really know about computers). To me though, they have always been foreign. Maybe it is because I went to a private school and we only had computer class once a week and basically all we did was draw and learn how to use WORD (or whatever version of word was available when I was in 6th grade). Other schools (probably public ones) had computer classes everyday or a few times a week at least. I think this may be a big reason why I am behind in technology or maybe why I have never really gotten interested in it. Even though my family was one of the first ones out of the people I knew to get a computer and to get internet. I remember my friends would always come to my house and think that I was so cool and they would play around on my computer but after a few weeks I got bored of it and only went to chat with friends online. I never really got into how it was made or any other aspect on it besides communication.
I do however know a little about dedicated servers which I learned about in computer science and then again in my econ class (for some reason). I also learned more about it on a website http://www.alentus.com/dedicated-hosting/server.asp which explains more about it than I will ever know. All of the jumble about hosting partners and servers and guarantees really confuses me and makes me wonder if I am the only one that gets confused or if other people out there are like me. Sometimes I feel like websites should have a cliff notes version where we could read and get the gist of it better. Or maybe I should take another computer science class (even though I thought the first one was torture). Or maybe they make a dictionary for people who don't understand computer terms and I could get one of those. No matter the situation I really need to up my game when it comes to computers if I ever want to get anywhere in life.