My tech villain origin story 🧵🪡:
-Backstory:
My mother and I immigrated from a poor part of a central american country and I learned tech in the US was more readily available than where we came from. However we still couldnt afford the latest and greatest. Which was fine until 6th grade…
-Backstory:
My mother and I immigrated from a poor part of a central american country and I learned tech in the US was more readily available than where we came from. However we still couldnt afford the latest and greatest. Which was fine until 6th grade…
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6th grade math was already difficult for me. And here came our first big project. To do a powerpoint slide show on how some of our great equations came to be and present it to our class. Easy right? Well what if you dont have a flash drive and cant email it? Heres what i did…
I took my dad’s prehistoric laptop and meticulously made my project with my limited internet access. Crossed my T’s and dotted all my I’s, only realize, I cant afford a flashdrive. BUT this old tech takes floopy disks (its 2008). So I use a floppy and practice my demo all night…
Floppy disk in hand and title of weird kid on my name already, my name is called first and I can feel the red flush of embarrassment knowing my storage device is “weird”. I hand it over and my teacher looks at me like im pulling a joke on her. Kids ask what that even is, im red..
I get told i cant present (her school tech could take a floppy). I explain in front of everyone i cant buy a flashdrive. A friend says borrow mine and bring it back. The teach says no then we’ll both be late. It took multiple phone calls from my parents to get the work accepted..
I decided from then on I would learn everything, one day have everything, and be best project doer ever. But how upsetting is that to a kid. Im glad we live in an age where storage is so cheap and so large. I paid 3 dollars for 64gb on sale. More than enough for a 10 slide project…