Learning the Past to Understand the Future

I use to think that i new a little about computers, but i am soon realizing that may not be entirely true. I thought i could work photoshop and Illustrator, make movies on flash, and navigate around the internet pretty well. But it is now only the second week of the quarter and it is becoming clear that i don't understand as much as i thought! There are vast corners of the internet i never knew and i will have to train myself to blog consistently. However, it has also come to my attention that there are other devices of the computer i never thought about. 

A new wave of computer information is creeping its way into my life, and i am not sure how to compute such a process. It's called computer programing. This idea has been around since computers were first invented and my dad always talked about "I remember when computers use to take up a whole wall and only had 1K of memory." Apparently this was true and due to the developments of computer programing overtime we are now allowed to have laptops that can hold an exorbitant amount of memory and i can talk to you through such a device even if you happen to be halfway across the world. Computers have evolved just like the internet has, but if the web is at 2.0 than the computer must be at 55.0 or even higher. 

So i am learning backwards, because i already know how to use a computer i have to now learn how to create computer knowledge. My computers class will oddly enough go hand-in-hand with this class, first by learning the future of what's to come with the internet and computers, while at the same time learning basic knowledge of the past. In our lives now a days  it is necessary to understand one to be able to understand the other.