ronandannette
I gave myself this tag and I "Like" myself too!
- Joined
- May 4, 2006
Sitting in a hotel lobby with an epoisode of Friends playing on tv. Phoebe runs in and asks Monica for an atlas to research a country. Then a minute later Chandler arrives and asks if anybody has anything that needs copying because he's running to the xerox place (yes, he actually used the word xerox).
We got our first home pc, printer and internet connection 21 years ago, around the time our DS was born. I can remember what a life-changing experience it was to have all that information at my fingertips and I just realized he (DS) never knew life without it. But it also means he'll never know what it meant to own a set of encyclopedias or the "joy" of going to the library in search of some obscure fact.
And does anybody remember travel planning in the days of glossy colour brochures? You trusted a travel agent to book you into a destination they recommend and had no idea what you were really getting into. OTOH, there was a certain "largeness" to the world that just doesn't exist anymore.
We got our first home pc, printer and internet connection 21 years ago, around the time our DS was born. I can remember what a life-changing experience it was to have all that information at my fingertips and I just realized he (DS) never knew life without it. But it also means he'll never know what it meant to own a set of encyclopedias or the "joy" of going to the library in search of some obscure fact.
And does anybody remember travel planning in the days of glossy colour brochures? You trusted a travel agent to book you into a destination they recommend and had no idea what you were really getting into. OTOH, there was a certain "largeness" to the world that just doesn't exist anymore.