On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:32:39 +1000
"Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It concludes that there is a tendancy for girls, around the
> early teenage years, to stop using computers by choice. They
> continue to use them for specific tasks, but stop experimenting
> and playing.
My sister and I regularly use computers. If you define computers as
everything from Atari 800s (at work in the family business) to
Sparcstations to vanilla homebuilt PCs. No Macs cause we haven't managed
to scrounge any.
We've had computers around since age 4 at the *latest*. She's younger so
it's litterally all her life. Now, if there had been a smaller number of
computers in our house since we were little, or Mom and Dad were a
little more stone age in their views, we'd probably be like the girls
studied for the book. However, it's hard to be uncomfortable around
computers when they outnumber the people by at least 2 to 1. We probably
have parts for more too.
It probably didn't hurt also that there was a nice collection of games
like M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, Zork, and lots of others that
didn't trigger motion sickness and were a heck of a lot of fun. In some
ways I think gaming has gone downhill because it's aimed so solidly at
the male player. At least when I was 8 there were games that involved
thought, not just a set of fast reflexes (there still are such games.
Like Simcity 3000. CivII. ummm...).
Emily, who probably needs to get a few more computers working
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