I remember being in the living room at my grandparents house and my older, more citified cousin was explaining to dumb little doe-eyed farm girl me, what the coming of this World Wide Web was going to mean for us.
He was on a huge clunky laptop and he was fired up about the whole idea of this information highway. I was a deer in headlights pretending to grasp one iota of what he was saying.
Most of everything that it’s brought has been amazing. It made the world smaller and people more reachable. But I am happy to have lived in a time where we had to scour through encyclopedias and other big clunky books to do assignments and science fair projects in school.
Texting completely changed the way we communicate and in some ways it’s good and others not so good. We were very brave for answering the phone, not knowing who was calling. Nowadays when someone just up and calls me, I’m like what are doing?? We don’t just call someone, like who do you think you are?!
In order to answer this prompt, I Googled what things had been invented besides 1976, you know, besides these obvious technology related things and another big one personally was the invention of disposable contact lenses.
I could not have lived without disposable contact lenses in my younger years. I wore them faithfully and religiously right up until about six years ago.
Oh the places we went and the things we saw. You’ve never seen a desperate struggle if you’ve never been three sheets to the wind at 2 am in a tent at a music festival trying to pull these suction cups from your eyeballs in the dark.
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