When telling stories about high school and college years she asks things along the lines of "Why didn't you just e-mail them?" Uhhh, because e-mail hardly existed back then, because we didn't have cell phones. Growing up my family had a black rotary dial phone and a tiny black and white TV for untill around the time I was about 12 years old. I'm not even forty years old! One time I asked my grandparents, who grew up without electricity, indoor plumbing, or central heat if they thought that the world would be, when I was became thier age, as different to me from the one I grew up in as their world is to them when compared to their childhood. You could see them both give a little jerk at the thought and they got strangely creepy knowing smiles and said "yes, yes it will be." I found it a bit unsettling, they memory will hopefully help me keep in touch with changes in technology. I think the internet is changing our lives as much as any invention ever has, in ways that we can't even yet comprehend, and it is a technology still in it's infancy. The mobile phone is mostly a just another gate way for the internet to act upon our lives.
it is one of my prized pieces of nostalgia.
It's a pity most history is written about the past, really. A lot of our lives are spent looking forward and wondering what's coming or trying to influence it, but that probably won't be recorded, even though it's probably shaping what we do. Re those old rotary phones: can you remember how slow they were to dial?! I can't imagine using one now. It would seem like forever to wait for that circle thing to return after each number is dialed. Just thinking about that makes me feel impatient :)