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Skriven 2010-07-26 12:01:17 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: The good old days (was: Good, free email addresses in the States)
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Hello Robert,

On Monday July 26 2010 07:47, you wrote to me:

 MV>> We are getting old Bob. yes, maybe we old farts can do without the
 MV>> internet if we must.

 RB> I don't really think I could - or would want to - anymore.

I would not want to, but I think I could if I had no choice. There were times
in my life that I did not have a car. Lived through that too.

 RB> Still remember how difficult it was to get information on various
 RB> things previously, and how easy it is now.

Very true. And now it is aven harder to get the information the old way, as the
old information channels are closing down...

 MV>> After all, we have been doing without for most of our lives. But
 MV>> society as a whole no longer can, just as doing without motorised
 MV>> transport or the telephone is unthinkable.

 RB> True, although I sometimes have daydreams of going back in time and
 RB> killing Alexander Graham Bell when my wife gets the fourth or fifth
 RB> phone call in two hours, or hangs on the phone for two hours every
 RB> other day exchanging "vital information" with one of her cronies.

;-) Sounds familiar..

 RB> To digress a bit: when I was in college, my lab bench was - to my
 RB> disgust and annoyance - next to the only phone in the lab, which
 RB> naturally was often ringing (there were some 18 people in the lab). It
 RB> got very bad at times. I haven't really liked phones since, although I
 RB> sometimes use them (but prefer written communication).

I am glad I worked in a decent lab with a PABX, so that everyone could have his
own telephone. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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