Do you remember life before the internet?
This will be short, in grumpy old woman mode. Heck yeah I remember life before the Internet! I voted before Al Gore invented it! I didn’t get a computer until I was in graduate school. It had two floppy disk drives. I got email the next year. No wonder I have such good handwriting. I took so many notes.
And I typed long, annoying reports on an IBM Selectric typewriter. It had correction tape! Modern! Try doing footnotes with one. I did.
I even typed an entire book on the Basque language, being paid per page, using three different type balls.
I’m oh, so glad for the Internet, for word processing software, and social media. It’s a privilege we shouldn’t take advantage.
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Nice nostalgia! For more of the same, check out the new book, LIFE BEFORE THE INTERNET, just published. https://www.lifebeforetheinternet.com/
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I remember taking typing class in high school Junior year around 1960, using an old original one with metal fingers striking against an ink ribbon onto the paper, and being impressed with the efficiency in learning how to “write” this way. Practicing as fast as possible the sentence “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” over and over. Typing with a similar portable one in college doing theses and such was a real pain when making errors. Of course I seldom made any! So much easier with computers!
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