I love working with ancestry and have done a DNA test. I do not have Neanderthal genes. I do have Kennewick genes.
How long have you been online with your computer? Do you do much with your computer beyond surfing the net?
My introduction to the Internet was in the late 1980's and, boy, was it primitive. An AOL dial-up connection which was painfully slow. Small green letters on a black background. No graphics. No World Wide Web. You searched for information using Archie. It was basically a list of files located on different servers, primarily at universities. The files were updated monthly. With that said, I felt like I was sitting on the deck of Star Trek's Enterprise.
Commercial activities were forbidden. The Internet, as we know it, did not catch fire until this prohibition was ended. Today, shopping and price comparison is so easy with the Internet. I cannot imagine planning a vacation trip or a house remodel without it.
I suddenly feel like the aging great grandparent talking about how she walked four miles to school and then came home and milked the cows!
Teachers started attending computer workshops in the 1990s. We spend hours learning simple coding to make crossword puzzles and other educational tools. Thankfully, in a few years there were floppy discs that you could insert into the computer to do the same thing.
After the WWW and high speed Internet service arrived on the scene, it was possible to use the Internet more effectively for student research projects and presentations. The Internet revolutionized education and became a major part of my professional life.
I depended on the Internet for recording my student grades, communicating with the school administration and parents, and researching my presentations. Eventually, once we got computer labs, I started requiring student projects using the Internet.
As a media specialist, I was on the computer almost all day when I was not doing presentations or assisting students, and even then, my laptop was usually part of the presentation. I also created and maintained the media center web site and assisted our students enrolled in Virtual School classes. Before I retired, I taught a Virtual School history class as an extra job.
Since I retired, I mostly use the Internet for information, entertainment, shopping, and communicating with others. I marvel at how I can carry my whole eBook collection in my iPad Mini and search and communicate with anyone in the world from wherever I am in the world. My Samsung Galaxy 7 has many, many times the computing power of the computers that were on the Apollo mission. I truly feel like I am in the world of the future.
Please tell me about your DNA results. I am intrigued!