Life before computers

[vernon]

I was a member of a railway photography circle, every two or three months an infant school tidy box would arrive, containing photos, and a grubby notebook, one took the last photos one had put in out and put the best of one's new ones in, and write comments (in pencil so the next recipient could erase them if they were defamatory) about the other photos in the book, fix a new label and post them off. Now you can tell someone they are cross eyed, their instamatic is broken and life in Dullton must be really boring if that is the best train they have, in minutes.

My friends father still does something similar but with stamps. A small album is circulated with sufficient means to record additions to the album and purchases made with payment details. I was amazed that the 'stamp circle' trusted the post office not to lose the album.

 

[Speicher]

 

[vernon]

Good ol' Tim Berners-Lee, eh? Eat your heart out Bill Gates.

Tam Berners Lee made possible some of the visions of Vannevar Bush - a man truly ahead of his time.

 

[slowmotion]

Well, I don't know about you lot but I rather enjoyed painting soot pictures of bison on our cave wall.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

...the grass was greener right?

Umm, hold on, I'll go and check

*Walks to the window, stops, thinks about it for a moment, goes back to the computer, looks up grass on Wikipedia, goes back to the window to check*

Umm, I can't remember, sorry.

 

[tyred]

I always found it so inconvenient when my carrier pigeon crashed or caught a virus.

 

[Speicher]

In the early days of computers, the bus would sometimes stop running altogether. Then my mother got very board of waiting for the bus. So she built a drive, got a car, and can now Rom where ever she likes.