Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Call headquarters, have you terminated.

A few years back I used to scoff at old people who couldn't figure out computers. 'I can't figure out how to check my email.' Would be a constant lament. You just click on a fucking box and open it I would think. But now, reaching the ripe old age of 27 I can understand their pain. For I in the short amount of time I have lived on this earth have seen a lot of things go obsolete. Payphones, collect calls, a world where everyone didn't have cell phones loaded up with the internet and all that fancy mumbo jumbo. The old analog cable where you had those few channels on the upper block that were all fuzzy. I remember going to those channels which had porn on them late at night and watching the discolored scrambled images which would sometimes give me a fleeting looking at the naked female form. Internet chat rooms, where you could meet people from around the country and have somewhat interesting conversations. Yet all or many of those things are now gone, or at least not as prominent in today's societies. Then I think about someone who grew up in the 1920's or 1930's where radios was in its infancy and many of the same technologies I am talking about simply didn't exist. Where gas was mere cents a gallon and TV didn't exist neverind computers, and the many things that that generation has seen that is not only obsolete but non-existent. Then I understand.