Friday, March 17, 2006
Another hot day but I was unable to idle away my time at the air conditioned cinema due to a dental appointment. Needle, drill and a huge bill. Not my first choice for an afternoon's entertainment. Worse still my dentist is a country music fan and has the most atrocious songs playing to drown out the screams.
We talked tech whilst waiting for my jaw to go numb. It transpires that he was living in Silicone Valley in 1978 and due to developing a correspondence with a guy in Switzerland, ended up as a beta tester in the first days of the world wide web. It took five hours to send an email in those days, he told me. Ah yes, I replied, the first computer I ever saw had no disk drive and you loaded programs via an audio cassette. By the time we had got round to reminiscing about DOS the young assistant's eyes had glazed over harder than the amalgam.
I asked my class of 20 year old Japanese and Koreans recently if they remembered life before email. None of them did. 'But my mother told me about it.' one of them volunteered. Feeling old yet?
Current weight: 77 kg
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We talked tech whilst waiting for my jaw to go numb. It transpires that he was living in Silicone Valley in 1978 and due to developing a correspondence with a guy in Switzerland, ended up as a beta tester in the first days of the world wide web. It took five hours to send an email in those days, he told me. Ah yes, I replied, the first computer I ever saw had no disk drive and you loaded programs via an audio cassette. By the time we had got round to reminiscing about DOS the young assistant's eyes had glazed over harder than the amalgam.
I asked my class of 20 year old Japanese and Koreans recently if they remembered life before email. None of them did. 'But my mother told me about it.' one of them volunteered. Feeling old yet?
Current weight: 77 kg
