Welcome to my blog. I can't imagine the covered wagon days, when it took several weeks to move yourself across the country. I can't imagine trying to get a letter to a friend during the pony express. The angst that I feel just thinking about it makes me thankful for the bright minds and creativity of the developers of internet communications.
Technology has come so far since I was a little girl. I remember that my ex-husband thought that my family was rich because we had a color TV! Okay, I'm aging myself. But, I also remember that my son thought the world was gray when I was a child as he watched a black and white TV at my parents home.
We've come a long way, baby!!
Now, I can speak to you from across the globe in a matter of seconds. Welcome to my blog and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with me.
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Yeah, you know I was just talking to some of the kids on the high school football team that I coach and they were listening to music that I remembered hearing when I was around their age. I forget the name of the song, but the lyrics said something about a pager. I stopped and thought to myself, "Wow! I remember when I had my first pager." I shared with the kids about my first pager and how I had to listen to a tape player with headphones before cd players and Ipods came out. I felt really old. It's amazing how far technology has come just in the short time I have been alive. And at this rate, who knows what's next?
Love your blog! Love the yes to the possibilities right there in its name!
It is amazing how technology is ever evolving. I know I'm really dating myself when I tell my nieces and nephews that college computer classes were in its infancy stage in the late '70s and early '80s. Wish I had jumped on that bandwagon. I felt like a "fish out of water" when interacting with fellow classmates in a marketing program I just completed. The only good that will come out of it is as technology continues to evolve, they too will feel somewhat disconnected from 20-year-olds when they are in their
40s. Oh, the sweet revenge!
To Valerie: I wanted to inform you that your omen of what was to come has already happened to me with my own teenager. I was just entering the workforce when the internet became a public entity and since that time I really thought I was on top of stuff being a web developer and all. Well fast forward 14 yrs and now I find it increasingly difficult to even communicate with my son because acronyms they use while texting and on instant messenger have become a spoken language! LOL, I was so ROFL...
Dead serious, this is not just a prank based upon the Verizon commercials, kids are really TALKING like this now!
I even get messages with just the simple "..." - and who would have known that three dots actually translated into something English that I'm supposed to respond to? I thought only computers did that?? *smile*
just a witness: YKTR! (You know that's right) I figure if this generation can make up an abbreviated language, so can I -- even if I am the only one who knows what it means. It really messes with my nieces and nephews' heads. Drives them CRAZY! :)
In spite of the difficulty in trying to keep up, I'm glad to be a part of this technological phenomenon. Lord, what would I do without Google and social networks? How did we survive? (Although, I think 45-year-olds and older have the best of both worlds.)
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