Do you remember life before the internet?
I’m hurtling towards my 64th birthday.
When I was born a computer was a very specialised piece of equipment and the “average man on the street” would only know of the concept from sci-fi books and movies. Computers still had their own rooms with a cabled intranet when I started working for an aerospace company as a data input temp when I left school in 1980. In the office was 4 clunky monitors and keyboard that were linked to a memory bank in another room and the data input was “checked” for obvious errors before it was forwarded to the main frame.
The first computer I used at school in 1977 had a family suitcase sized processor with barely enough memory available to load a simple app- my 128GB hand held smartphone with its computing, communication, navigation, and its video, book, and music retrieval system was a fantasist’s dream.
The idea that I can pluck all that information “out of the air” almost instantly now after “dial up” internet that could take 10 to 30 minutes to send the simplest data just blows my mind still.
To be casually using an iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Meta smart glasses aged 63.5 seems surreal.
No jet cars… yet…
Until next time
Was that a dinosaur? 2.0 
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