Conference Crew - 1995
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Silas, Craig, Yair, Paul, Dylan, Drew,
Ricky, Patrick and Michael, Brett |
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Everyone who attended the conference signed the giant megabyte. |
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May 1995 was the conference month for
K-Net. Together with Microsoft, K-Net held the first ever computer conference for kids and
teenagers in SA – if not in the world.
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The
winner of the Acer PC worth R10,000.00 |
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Michael (10) of Johannesburg
won the K-Net / Microsoft 1995 National Technology
Conference Prize.
Tons of prizes were won - the famous flying
mouse pads, Encarta, Dangerous Creatures, Fine Artist, Creative Writer, Publisher, Office
for the folks, Entertainment Packs, Flight Simulator, the Windows 95 Final Beta Release,
Windows 95 pens, Megabyte T-shirts, caps, Compu-pass, Apple stuff and more. |
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It was the computing event of the year. 500
kids and teenagers attended the K-Net (now Knowledge Network) / Microsoft 1995 National
Technology Conference in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. It was "brill", "awesome",
"a cut above the rest", and "the computing event of the year".
For those of you who couldn’t make it – guys you
missed the computing event of the century!
Virtual shopping, digital cameras, VB programming, Internet and multimedia school
projects - Yes, we learned about all this at the Conference in 1995! |
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Cape Town,
South Africa |
Durban,
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We kicked off the show with Greedy "the Nerd
clam" and the rest of the crew at the Dock Road Venue, Waterfront complex in Cape Town.
It was great, all the K-Net conference kids in Cape Town were
absolutely fabulous with excellent participation in the soundblaster sound recording and the
Visual Basic experience, and I don’t think that anyone will forget the "It’s a
spicy meatball" impersonation.
Did we learn something?
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Next up was Durban. It was their turn to
experience the excitement of the National Conference.
After
a long trip down to Durban we eventually got settled at the Technikon.
The next day brought on the opening of the Durban Conference
and we found the Durban kids to be slow starters, but boy when they get warmed up there is
just no stopping them.
That is more than I can say for the Internet demo. When there
is no line there is just no getting started, no matter how hard we tried. |
Johannesburg,
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Johannesburg and the VW marketing
conference centre were up next. Now the K-Net crew were on the home ground and ready for
anything that could be thrown at them, but I’m not so sure the rest of the conference
kids were ready to have mouse pads thrown at them, as the newly established "Mouse pad
Wrestle" showed.
The Apple digital video
demonstration was the highlight, followed by the Internet.
Virtual Shopping ruled in 1995 and still does..... So what has
changed? ....... I think we have. |
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Crew
Dinner with the Springboks! |
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"The K-Net conference was enjoyed by all,
especially the K-Net conference crew.
Rugby Fever
We went to a K-Net Crew Dinner at the Sandton Holiday Inn.
Once again the Springboks had won and everybody had rugby fewer.
The Springboks were staying at the
hotel and to everyone’s joy and amazement, they decided to come down and have dinner.
The K-Netters got the chance to speak to them and get
their autographs.
Great food, good company and lots of fun and excitement
made it an unforgettable evening for the Conference Crew of 1995."
Michael Joffe - 1995 Conference Crew Member |
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