Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Generation Slap

17 Weeks

By the time our son can go to college, 'going to college' may be something entirely different. It occurred to me today that I learned about the Internet—at the time, a tiny, viral program made solely out of a few image-less, DOS chat rooms—while in college. No one had a 'personal computer'. We went to the computer lab like we went to the laundry mat. I used a typewriter to do my term papers. Spell check was my roommate and the delete key was a little bottle of stuff secretaries got high off of. 

Right now, I'm writing this blog entry from my phone. 

That sentence did not exist twenty years ago. And I would have been hospitalized had I said it. 

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