I’m old From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angela You know
you're getting up there if you remember when: * Your
computer's ready-mode was a black screen with a single curser. * Apple
was bigger than Windows. * Or
should I say PCs, since for a while, there was no such thing as Windows. * There
was just "DOS." * And
they were called microcomputers instead of PCs. *
Contrary to free-market theory, your phone choices and bills were much easier
because AT&T was a good old-fashioned monopoly. * There
was this amazing new video game called "Pong." * And you
thought it had the most advanced graphics imaginable. * AOL was
just another start-up online service that could easily have lost out to rivals
called Compuserve and Prodigy. * A
20-something guy named Dell came up with the nutty idea of selling computers by
mail. * Jane
Fonda went from sex symbol, to feminist activist, to dutiful wife of a powerful
man, to obscurity. * And
that powerful man was known not as Ted Turner founder of CNN - but
"Blackbeard Among the Bluebloods" for winning the America's Cup while
scandalizing Newport society with raucus behavior. * And there
was no question U.S. sailors would of course win the Cup - forever. * It was
called VD instead of an STD. * The
first true laptop computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80. * And if
you were hip, you referred to it affectionately as a TRASH-80. * Burning
a CD was the act of a pyromaniac. * Sean
Connery was Pierce Brosnan. * The new
walkaround phone that gave you astonishing mobility was a cordless one you
could take around the house. * And it
got better reception than the one you can now take all over the country. * Only
wives got alimony. * Steve
Jobs ran Apple. I mean, the first time. * There
was a guy on 60 Minutes named Mike Wallace who was so old you figured he'd
retire at the latest by 1990. *
TheMideast was simpler because Iran was run by a dictator called The Shah, who
wanted power rather than Jihad. * Mail
was something you wrote on a piece of paper and put into a stamped envelope. * And you
didn't get 110 unsolicited pieces of it every morning promising to enhance your
anatomical assets. * No
normal person had speakers on their computer. * The
diners at the next restaurant table were smoking cigarettes and you barely
noticed. * The
only thing you knew about Robin Williams was he played a weird alien named
"Mork" on television. * A 1-gig
hard drive seemed as big as a warehouse. (Today, most are 40-times that.) * An
8-track tape the size of a paperback book was an advanced concept in compact
music recording. *
Everyone knew what an LP was. And now
the final test of whether you're getting up there: * Even
though there are plenty of LPs in antiques stores, you still have 400 in your
attic, because deep down, you still think the format will come back. |
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