JANUARY 11, 2023 www.wintertexantimes.com 2 WINTER TEXAN TIMES MOBILE HOME INSURANCE HIDALGO COUNTY We Also Insure PARK MODELS • TRAVEL TRAILERS MOTORHOMES • GOLF CARTS • “CASITAS” 5TH WHEELS • AUTOS • MOTORCYCLES Galvan Insurance Agency, Inc. 1101 East Business 83 Donna, TX 1 1/2 milesWest of Don-Wes Flea Market www.galvaninsuranceagency.com *Premium subject to carrier underwriting. Rate subject to change. *$271.00per year. Conditions Apply. As Low as Plan Covers: Fire, Lightning, Explosion, Smoke, Wind (Hurricane, Tornadoes), Hail, Riot & Civil Commotion, Land & Air Vehicles... Also Includes $100,000 Liability Coverage. Flood Coverage Available Call or Come See Us 956-464-2886 My how the world has changed How many of you remember using a computer for the first time? In our looking back to our previous issues, and our first season of the Winter Texan Times, we see when our writer Virginia Sunderman first used a computer to write an article for submission. It was printed in the January 15, 1988, issue of the Winter Texan Times. She writes, “This is my first attempt at using a computer to write an article. I am using a computer at the Speer Memorial Library in Mission. The use of the computer is just one of the many advantages the library has to offer the public.” If memory serves me right, but I do not recall ever having a computer at home. We used a typewriter for just about everything. I remember at one time having a graphing typewriter that we could put code in and it would print graphs, tables, pie charts, and print in COLOR if we wanted. That was a huge thing! My husband remembers using a computer as far back as 1980 at the school he was attending. While I only remember using the microfiche readers and that sort until high school. It wasn’t until about ninth grade, 1989, when I took a computer literacy class that I really had the chance to experience a computer – and now, how the world has changed. My oldest was using a computer before she even entered school. She taught herself how to read while playing games on the computer. This is when we had AOL instant messenger and the internet wasn’t supplied by every business out there. Our paper has come a long way since then as well. Because minimal things were done on the computer, we couldn’t have full color and other functions that are so widely used today in our publications. My husband remembers when they first started using a desktop publishing program at the paper in the mid to late 1980’s. He remembers some of the old tasks and how long things would take to get it just right. When I first started working for the paper in 1996, we were still printing out copy, using a dark room, grid paper, tape borders, and a copier machine to make clip art the size we needed for ads. The paper was then cut, waxed, and pasted on the grid sheet before being taken to the press. Because of the way things used to be, we still often use a term – ‘Watch out for chickens.’ This came about after a piece of chicken clip art fell on a political ad and was printed that way. Winter Texan Times: Looking back 35 years See LOOKING BACK pg. 24
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