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It's official, our Intern has made me feel old!

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It turns out our intern has never owned/used a cassette tape!! It was bad enough at the weekend when I found out my sisters kids had never used a rotary phone before. So it's safe to say, our Intern has never experienced the forerunner of Napster, tape to tape.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 08/11/2005 | Permalink |

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1 - Hah decided to check your blog for stuff for the newsletter and I found this and couldn't resist:

ET - The Extra Terrestrial, and Fast times at Ridgemont high are movies a year older than I am that were listed as classics on a website I was at earlier.

And I think CD's first came out the year I was born.

Posted by Josh the Intern At 02:58:21 AM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |

2 - Cheer up. My teenage daughter found a box of "singles" in the loft, and said "Wow - big, black CDs! How do you play them?"

Groan.

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 06:52:21 AM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |

3 - When my eldest daughter was 8 we were in the basement and she happened upon my collection of vintage typewriters. I love the really old ones, like a Royal, that looks so... antique-y. So, I have a few of them that I have picked up over the years at garage sales. In fact, in High School I needed to type a paper, didn't have a typewriter at home, so I bought my first old portable royal (a 1920's model) for $10 at a garage sale. In fact, here's a pic of one like it:

http://www.portabletypewriters.com/portable_typewriters_royal1926.gif

Anyway, she saw these typewriters, gave them careful consideration, and then turned to me and asked, "Daddy, where is the monitor for these computers? And how do you plug them in?"

She had never seen a typewriter! She was in 4th grade, and had never encountered a typewriter, ever. I had to explain what they were, how they worked, etc.

I felt very old that day.

Rock

Posted by Rock At 08:38:52 AM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |

4 - Had a similar experience to Rock with my 7 year old awhile back. Saw a similar typewriter in a store display and asked similar computer-comparison questions. Sigh.

Posted by Tim Latta At 11:17:06 AM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |

5 - How about when your kid goes with you to your grandfather's (their great-grandfather's) and he is in his ofice typing a letter. My grandfather still refuses to use any cimputer and uses the old manual typewriter that the keys can come up and clack-clack and get stuck together.

Said child asks, "How does pop-pop know what he is typing when he can't see the screen?"

Great-grandfather sneers and says "you don't need a screen the paper comes right out."

Child responds "So that is a printer, I don't get it?"

ugh

Posted by Chris Miller At 02:16:53 PM On 08/12/2005 | - Website - |