WELP DAUGHTER IN LAW IS A SERIOUS CATHOLIC AND ATTENDS ALL KINDS OF CHURCH MEETINGS . NOT A BAD THING.
I'M A DROPOUT MOSTLY . I HAVE A BIT OF DIFFICULTY GETTING PLACES SO IT REALLY HINDERS MY ABILITY TO BE INVOLVED IN ANYTHING.
I HAVE SPENT MOST OF TODAY CHECKING OUT THE NANO THEORIES IT IS FASCINATING.
"ANY TECHNOLOGY SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC" BY ARTHUR C. CLARK
HAS BECOME THE RULE IN OUR CURRENT SOCIETY.
IN MY LIFETIME:
1. TELEVISION FIRST BECAME AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IN MY WORLD OF KNOWING IN 1953. I DID NOT ACTUALLY SEE A TV UNTIL I WENT TO NEW ORLEANS (REMEMBER WHEN I RAN AWAY AT AGE 16?) IN 1954. IT WAS KINDA BORING THEN. WRESTLING BECAME A BIG THING.
2. RADIO PROVIDED THE SAME ENTERTAINMENT UP UNTIL THEN.
I LOVED MY RADIO .
I STILL USE A RADIO TO LISTEN TO GEORGE NOOREY AND MUSIC . ONCE IN AWHILE A TALK SHOW AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF MINISTERS I LIKE . I USED TO LISTEN WHEN I COMMUTED TO WORK DAILY FOR ABOUT 17 YEARS.
3. CARS HAD NO SEAT BELTS WE GOT OUR FIRST SEAT BELTS IN 1964 WHEN WE BOUGHT A NASH RAMBLER STATION WAGON. THEY DIDN'T COME WITH IT WE INSTALLED THEM.
4. MICROWAVE OVENS FIRST ORIGINATED IN 1947 The History of the Microwave Oven THE FIRST HOME ONE WAS IN 1952-55 AND COST ABOUT $1295
THEY CALLED THEM RADAR RANGES.
5. CARS GOT TURN SIGNALS IN OFFERED THEM IN 1939 BUT DID NOT BECOME STANDARD UNTIL THE 60'S.
THEY WERE AN EXTRA.
6. OMIGOSH I COULD GO ON AND ON LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT WHEN SOMETHING CAME TO BE ILL FIND OUT.
7. MY FIRST COMPUTER EXPERIENCE WAS AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY I ATTENDED . THAT WAS IN 1970 AND THEY USED THOSE PUNCH CARDS TO RUN DATA INTO THE SYSTEM. VERY BORING. I RAN MY RESEARCH AND STATISTICS DATA IN 1972 IN GRAD SCHOOL FOR MY THESIS.
8. FIRST HOME COMPUTER ... MY #3 SON GOT IN 1977 HE WAS 16 GOT TRAINING IN 1976 IN HIGH SCHOOL.
FIRST ONE FOR DAD WAS AN ATARI IN IN 1978 AND THE NEXT ONE WAS IN 1980'S AND NEXT I USED IT IN 1996. THEY COST ABOUT $2500 EACH THEN
9. I TOOK A COMPUTER CLASS IN 1978 BUT THE TEACHER WAS SUCH A BAD TEACHER I QUIT.
ANYWAYS THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.
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AWESOME entry! That Arthur C. Clarke entry is one of my favorite quotes. I often ask people who would be more lost in time. If someone from the Middle Ages was brought to us today or one of us now was brought a thousand years into the future. I maintain it would be the Middle Ages person. HE would think we have magic, but with our advances we would just take it in stride. I would ask first how they did it.
Love, Paul
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