JetGirlArt

Creating Audio Notes For My Kids

The other day I was taking the kids to school and one of them had asked me a question about how things worked "back in the day". I can't remember exactly but they asked me why we would have downloaded whole songs when we could have just watched them on Youtube. I had to explain that 1.) Youtube didn't exist yet. and 2.) The internet was not fast enough to stream, and sometimes downloads took hours.

They could not wrap their heads around the inability of the internet to respond the way it does now. I had to explain how long it took websites to load. You could go to one, go make some ramen, and come back and it might have finished loading. I'm talking 1999-2000.

Anyway, as I sat and explained it I got the idea of writing the explanation down. Because if 10 and 14 year olds don't know or understand something that to me wasn't that long ago, then a good chunk of people in the future won't have any idea either.

So I made a list of posts. Then I realized that my kids have a negative attention span and typing out the stories would be akin to me handwriting them out in cursive. So, I've set up my old podcast mic to make audio recordings of the stories so they can listen to them. Will they? Maybe when they are older. For now I want to finish making notes on the stories so that I can just crank out a half a dozen of them in a weekend.

List of stories so far:

I have a few more film and music specific ones but these are the main ones I'm going to do here soon. Hopefully they can save them to a disk or something somewhere so when they are older they can listen to something I made for them and not other people.