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summercomfort) wrote2001-08-22 11:45 pm
summercomfort) wrote2001-08-22 11:45 pm
Feeling nostalgic....
Went shopping with my mom today.
Couldn't find a pencil box anywhere. Everyone has these pouch things, but no pencil boxes! what happened to the world where computers were only used for word processing, monitors had only one color, stamps were 25 cents, and email was still relatively unknown? Like mom said, our world is experiencing a lot of changes, and most of it is from the development of the computer and internet.
Now everyone and their virtual pet has email and a horrible pink and neon green personal website, every program has save-as-webpage options (scaryscary), stamps are 34 cents (? or is it 33? I haven't sent snail mail in forever), and there is this strange new dimension called cyberspace. When I look back to, say, 4th grade, or even 6th grade, I'm boggled and the vast changes in our lives, in society because of internet. Sitting down and reading the news now involves, more often than not, news online. Online comics. B to B, B to C. Amazon. email. livejournal. IM. mailing lists. It's like we have two existances, and the online one is increasingly dominant.
By the time stamps go up to 50 cents, there would be no need for personal mail, and pencil boxes won't exist anywhere. (how does pencil boxes tie into all this? it just does.)
Couldn't find a pencil box anywhere. Everyone has these pouch things, but no pencil boxes! what happened to the world where computers were only used for word processing, monitors had only one color, stamps were 25 cents, and email was still relatively unknown? Like mom said, our world is experiencing a lot of changes, and most of it is from the development of the computer and internet.
Now everyone and their virtual pet has email and a horrible pink and neon green personal website, every program has save-as-webpage options (scaryscary), stamps are 34 cents (? or is it 33? I haven't sent snail mail in forever), and there is this strange new dimension called cyberspace. When I look back to, say, 4th grade, or even 6th grade, I'm boggled and the vast changes in our lives, in society because of internet. Sitting down and reading the news now involves, more often than not, news online. Online comics. B to B, B to C. Amazon. email. livejournal. IM. mailing lists. It's like we have two existances, and the online one is increasingly dominant.
By the time stamps go up to 50 cents, there would be no need for personal mail, and pencil boxes won't exist anywhere. (how does pencil boxes tie into all this? it just does.)