How should I put it… we are both elders… naw, we are both old timers.
The conversation turned to phone books and we both commented that they are going the way of the dinosaur; who uses a phonebook anymore when you have every phone number at your fingertips. You just look it up on the internet.
Need to look up a word, just go to the online dictionary. Wonder what a store looks like, looking it up on Google Street View or for that matter why even go to the store when you can buy it online. Finish a book in the middle of the night, shop online, and download a new book at 3AM.
When I was growing up you were tied to a landline if you wanted to talk on the phone, if no one was home there were no answering machine or voice mail. If you wanted to research a topic you went to a library and looked it up in a card file. Now look at my blog and all the hyperlinks, no longer do you have to go to a brick and mortar building to look something up, you just click on the link.
In my grandmother’s life they went from getting around in a horse and buggy to walking on the moon. She told me once that they used to go on picnics in Greenfield Hill from the center of Fairfield a distance of about five miles and it took them over an hour to get there. Now I go up to New Hampshire for a day trip.
The first computer that I learned to program on was an IBM 1620 and it took punch cards. My first computer was an AIM 65 and the memory size was 4K; that is Kilo, not Meg, not Gig.
My grandmother never in her wildest dreams would have thought the man would be walking on the moon. I never dreamed of the internet or smartphones. Where will the kids of today be in fifty years?
The conversation turned to phone books and we both commented that they are going the way of the dinosaur; who uses a phonebook anymore when you have every phone number at your fingertips. You just look it up on the internet.
Need to look up a word, just go to the online dictionary. Wonder what a store looks like, looking it up on Google Street View or for that matter why even go to the store when you can buy it online. Finish a book in the middle of the night, shop online, and download a new book at 3AM.
When I was growing up you were tied to a landline if you wanted to talk on the phone, if no one was home there were no answering machine or voice mail. If you wanted to research a topic you went to a library and looked it up in a card file. Now look at my blog and all the hyperlinks, no longer do you have to go to a brick and mortar building to look something up, you just click on the link.
In my grandmother’s life they went from getting around in a horse and buggy to walking on the moon. She told me once that they used to go on picnics in Greenfield Hill from the center of Fairfield a distance of about five miles and it took them over an hour to get there. Now I go up to New Hampshire for a day trip.
The first computer that I learned to program on was an IBM 1620 and it took punch cards. My first computer was an AIM 65 and the memory size was 4K; that is Kilo, not Meg, not Gig.
My grandmother never in her wildest dreams would have thought the man would be walking on the moon. I never dreamed of the internet or smartphones. Where will the kids of today be in fifty years?
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