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OMG!!! Boss's 1 year-old kid knows how to use a PC!!

UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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I literally could not believe my eyes.

My boss's 1 year-old son (turning 2 in May) was romping around the office the other day. He walked over to one of our servers (tower unit sitting on the floor) and recognized that it had a CD-ROM drive. He started pointing at it and whining (he can talk, but his vocabulary is pretty limited) and my boss (who was talking to us at the time) just picked out a random CD and gave it to him. The kid then pushes the eject button, pops the disc in and waits for the autorun to come up!!! Of course, we didn't have any games for him to play in the office, but I was amazed at this neat trick.

Apparently they make CD-ROM games for kids now, and as long as the kid can pick up the CD and pop it in the drive, they are good to go (autorun takes care of everything!) I came by later on to see the kid do this at home...sho 'nuff he just picks up his Nickelodeon CD-ROM, pops it in, and he's got a little 'activity center' game he can play. Kid then proceeds to use the mouse with more accuracy than my mom could ever hope for. The whole time I can't get over the fact that the kid's not even two. I mean, he can't even tie shoelaces, let alone speak a full sentence! And he's playing computer games??? He also knows how to turn on the TV and use a DVD player too (even recognizes difference between a CD and DVD based on the color of the data surface...he knows not to put a CD-ROM in the DVD player!) I found this almost scary.

Scarrier still is that Mac users still complain that PCs are too hard to use 😛
 
Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
I literally could not believe my eyes.

My boss's 1 year-old son (turning 2 in May) was romping around the office the other day. He walked over to one of our servers (tower unit sitting on the floor) and recognized that it had a CD-ROM drive. He started pointing at it and whining (he can talk, but his vocabulary is pretty limited) and my boss (who was talking to us at the time) just picked out a random CD and gave it to him. The kid then pushes the eject button, pops the disc in and waits for the autorun to come up!!! Of course, we didn't have any games for him to play in the office, but I was amazed at this neat trick.

Apparently they make CD-ROM games for kids now, and as long as the kid can pick up the CD and pop it in the drive, they are good to go (autorun takes care of everything!) I came by later on to see the kid do this at home...sho 'nuff he just picks up his Nickelodeon CD-ROM, pops it in, and he's got a little 'activity center' game he can play. Kid then proceeds to use the mouse with more accuracy than my mom could ever hope for. The whole time I can't get over the fact that the kid's not even two. I mean, he can't even tie shoelaces, let alone speak a full sentence! And he's playing computer games??? He also knows how to turn on the TV and use a DVD player too (even recognizes difference between a CD and DVD based on the color of the data surface...he knows not to put a CD-ROM in the DVD player!) I found this almost scary.

Scarrier still is that Mac users still complain that PCs are too hard to use 😛
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I don't doubt it. My son was doing the same thing before he was two.

 
Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Originally posted by: rawoutput
Future introvert
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LOL I was thinking future geek, future overweight couch-potato/dweeb, but yeah, kinda freaky...
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Not really. The computer is no more intimidating to a 2 year old than a TV. Most kids can turn a TV on at this age. They can't flip the channels, but they can turn it on and sit in front of it to get some entertainment when they're bored.
 
We got my 10-month old a little computer game that comes with a kiddie keyboard. He loves to play and bang on that keyboard and watch what happens on the screen. He'll probably be doing what the kid in your story is doing within the next 6-9 months.
 
My son turned 2 a couple months ago. He's a pro with the dvd player as well as the tv now (and has been since a couple months before he turned 2 I think). We have a stack of Disney/Kids dvds and he constantly wants to watch them. He'll run over to them and keep saying 'awch E E Ah' (which is his speak for "watch dvd"). When you finally give in, he'll run as fast as his little legs can carry him over to the dvd player, push the eject button to get the tray ready. He can put it in himself but gets fingerprints all over it, so I put it in the tray, he pushes the tray back in though and goes and hops on the couch. At the end, as soon as the credits come up, he knows the movie is over, so he'll go reverse the process, eject, grab the disc, and look for the case to put it back in. Unfortunately I usually lose interest in watching Monsters Inc. for the 100th time so don't notice when the movie ends - so he'll grab it and get fingerprints all over it, which makes it all pixely next time he watches it. Unfortunately he's broken 2 DVDs now when he gets the case without my knowledge. He doesn't know to push the thing in the middle to get the dvd out. He'll just grab the edge and pull on it till it comes out - most pop out ok, but a couple have broken in half because of him.

He can also turn on the tv with the remote. He knows which button is the tv and wish is for the dish receiver. Sometimes he gets up in the morning and goes and turns them both on to watch tv. Usually the tv is always on Nickelodeon, so he's watching cartoons. But sometimes we watch something the night before so its on some bizarre channel. I remember one day I came down and he was watching some infomercial on cleaning products. 🙂 Hasn't learned how to change channels yet.

One other funny thing - he loves the actual discs as well. Everytime we get one of those AOL cds i the mail we give it to him. He carries it around with him for a while. A lot of times when I go to watch a movie I'll find an AOL cd sitting in the dvd player. 😛
 
Yeah, so? Can he read? Can he program? I'm unimpressed by this parlor trick. I don't see how what he did was "using" a PC.
 
Originally posted by: dejitaru
Yeah, so? Can he read? Can he program? I'm unimpressed by this parlor trick. I don't see how what he did was "using" a PC.
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Got that right. Why when I was his age I knew how to break a computer......
 
My 4 year old installed a game by himself a few weeks ago. Little joker did the custom install of Motocross Madness 2, installed all track info etc. (just like daddy 🙂 )

He knows more about the computer than my wife 😛

Now to get him writing a little code😀
 
Originally posted by: spankyOO7
wonder where he stashes the pron he downloaded?
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Hmmm... barney porn....

"I love you, you love me, now take down my pants..." boom boom chiggy chiggy boom.... 😛
 
I'll bet by the time he's 3, he'll be downloading all sorts of pron. (what kind of pron would a 3 year old be interested in??)
 

It's really cool how quick they learn stuff. 😎

My daughter turned One on tuesday. She hasn't figured out the PC (yet) but I'm confident she will soon enough. She's starting to mess w/ the buttons, ejecting the CD Tray and a once she got the power button. Fortunately it just brought up the XP shutdown menu. She likes to bang on the keyboard when I'm typing sometimes. It's amazing some of the keyboard shortcuts she's 'found' that I wasn't aware of. :Q

So far she's got basically no interest in TV. We've got a few baby einstein programs and a few kids movies, but, no interest. Not that I care, if she doesn't want to watch it we'll do something else instead.
 
Kids are absolutely ASTOUNDING!

PTG1 started using the keyboard with some kiddie programs when she was about 6 months old.

She's been able to use a mouse since about 9 months old.
In fact, I got her a mini-mouse for laptops since it fit her hand better.
However, it was a ball mouse.
After it got dirty and skipped, she suggested I switch her back to the "red light" mouse.

It is AMAZING how she can use the sites she is allowed to surf (PBSKids.org, etc.)
She's been changing the backdrop on the machine since about 1 year old.

When her uncle visited for Christmas, he kept talking about making a video of her using the computer to use as a "tool of shame" on his college students (he teaches graphic design) since he said she can use the mouse with more control than they can.

BTW: When I was redoing some wiring in the office upstairs after switching broadband providers aweek or two ago, she was "The Network Girl!"
BTW2: Of course, that meant flashlight patrol, plugging patch cables, fetching tools, giving Mommy "BIG HUGS," and working together to get the job done!
 
sweet!

I don't think there was even a computer in the WHOLE town when I was born in Cambodia!
 
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