Essay #3 Draft

This is just my starting paragraph, so there will be more to come. Its been a busy week for me.

As far as we can remember, writing on paper has been our main resource for preserving ideas. However, since the late 80's to the early 90's, the computer appeared on the scene, with the Internet shortly after. While it might be quite a while, the era of the book is looking to be coming to an end, with the computer quickly becoming the new means of preserving and transferring stories and information. I remember back when I was going to grade school in the early 90's, the schools I went to, going from a private Catholic school to a public school, both had computer labs, along with a computer in most classrooms, so the idea of writing on a computer is not new to me, but for people born before the age of the computer, this might seem foreign to them. While writing on the computer does have its advantages, there are also disadvantages. Throughout Unit 3, we learn what some of these advantages and disadvantages are, and how our writing has changed through the use of the computer.

I'll try and get a bit more added tonight.