Wow, I must be getting old....

[aircooled]

...now my daughter is going into 8th grade and taking "Keyboarding". Sounds like they finally trashed all those IBM Selectric's

Damn I feel old... anyone have a Geritol???

 

[KarenMarie]

Hahaha!!

I know what you mean. VeggieFrog will be 20yrs old in Oct. and I watch her take stuff in school and go thru things in life that I did, seemingly just yesterday!

 

[Ausm]

Iam glad I took typing in high School paid off!!


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[aircooled]

I just think it's funny they call it "Keyboarding" now.

 

[bootymac]

Psh, I learned all my keyboarding skills from talking on ICQ and MSN, not from some cheap ass "Keyboarding" class in highschool! Besides, the computers at my school are more less typewriters

 

[DurocShark]

LoL... I took typing in 8th grade too. We didn't even have Selectrics. Pure Brother manuals.

/me shudders at the thought

 

[Fenixgoon]

my HS calls it "office suite" they do some stuff in PP, word, excel... but its all so mind-numbingly easy! i took it when it was just "keyboarding".. its so sad, my school is trying to make a name for itself and make the school sound good (it is a good school, but we're not some uber leet prep school and they want that image.. but im graduating this coming year, so i'll get out before things become sh!tty!)

 

[tRaptor]

Originally posted by: aircooled
...now my daughter is going into 8th grade and taking "Keyboarding". Sounds like they finally trashed all those IBM Selectric's

Damn I feel old... anyone have a Geritol???

Bah, it was keyboarding when i was in 8th grade, and that was like 8-9 years ago

 

[imported_KirbsAw]

I took typing in middle school. But it was called "Computer Class" all we did was type for awhile and then play Wolfenstein 3d and doom on the teacher's computer. I think we had a test on binary too.

Edit: Can't forget SkiFree

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: aircooled
...now my daughter is going into 8th grade and taking "Keyboarding". Sounds like they finally trashed all those IBM Selectric's

Damn I feel old... anyone have a Geritol???

lol. i took it in 7th grade, 1986.

 

[Wahsapa]

shouldnt keyboarding be the electronic musical instrument?

what happens when the music program starts a keyboarding class? do they call it typing

oh thats right... schools dont have any more money for art and music programs...

edit: do we thank bush? i should probably take that to p&n....

 

[Amused]

HA! When they made me take typing in 8th grade is was on old fashioned mechanical typewriters.

It never took. I'm still a two finger typer to this day.

 

[booger711]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
shouldnt keyboarding be the electronic musical instrument?

what happens when the music program starts a keyboarding class? do they call it typing

oh thats right... schools dont have any more money for art and music programs...

edit: do we thank bush? i should probably take that to p&n....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=keyboarding

sure looks like typing to me