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Skip to catalog search	Technology and Me by Neil Mills
About the Library · Hours & Phone Numbers · Main · Branches · Meeting Rooms · Kids · Teens Library catalog :	Neil Mills I first visited Thailand in 1987. There were very few English programs on television at that time. My friend Tony and I would go to the American University library every Thursday and watch a tape of seven days of news sent every week from New York to American University Bangkok. Peter Jennings was the narrator, and that’s how we got the news every week from around the world and America. In order to check on how my family were doing and let them know how I was, I would have to travel across Bangkok to the main post office, which had cheaper rates for overseas phone calls. The big change came with computers and Cable News Network (CNN) and British Broadcasting Company (BBC), bringing instant news to Asia. In 1996, Project Read installed computers and taught the members how to use them. For me, it opens up a new world being able to use the computer to email and check with my hometown’s paper and newspapers around the world and in Asia. Computers became very accessible in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore where I also visited. And little computer shops popped up everywhere and even in the department stores. My thanks go out to Project Read for teaching me how to use the computer.
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