I remember that before my parents died, my husband and I were visiting and my dad told us of his (not real) plans to computerize the house ... I think he envisioned some kind of robotic servant bringing him stuff and doing various things. It was kind of fun to think about. Following that silliness I started thinking how neat it would be to have all my recipes available to me on a monitor in the kitchen, but I didn’t truly think it would be possible and couldn’t fathom how we could rewire the house to be able to do that. Not too long after that we did get a computer, one called a jet lite or something like that. It was pre-windows anyway. I do remember it had those big, truly floppy disks. I learned how to do WordPerfect on it and could do my lesson plans on it. (I was a teacher.) I was hooked. But it crashed. On to bigger and better things ... have had PCs with almost every OS since then, starting with Win95 I think, except Millenium (?) and now Windows 8. I like my 7, thank you very much. But hey, I liked Vista too. Anyway, we have wi-fi, don’t need to rewire the house. I can haul my laptop to any room in the house I want, can even print wirelessly. Unfortunately the sad thing is: most of the recipes I expected to access still need to be typed up, so that hasn’t gone exactly as planned more than 20 years ago. I could scan them. Or photograph them. Hmm. I may be onto something! Connie My comment about the photo which is quite charming of a young delivery boy dressed in a shirt, tie and shorts, with a wooden push cart, prompted me to comment that my father was born in 1888, and can you imagine the changes he saw in his life time. I was blessed with him being with me til the late 1960s. That prompted the question of me suggesting digital cameras. But I will again say here, the personal computer is the great invention of my lifetime. Feel free to talk about it. How many here are keeping journals along with their genealogy programs? Elaine