What happened in my birth year? Many really interesting things, some kitsch, a lot of assholes born. At one point, the question of the technology of today blowing my mind. I would have loved, loved the internet when I was a kid. Wikipedia, google, blogs, everything, I would have been such an internet addict, utterly adoring and entranced. I would have found the music I liked, instead of the crap forced on me. I would have explored the arts, and read everything I could find, and found a lot of porn. (I wasn't a saint then, am not now.)
Going to look up a few items, but aside from Sundays and Cybele. I have read the books, and seen the movies mentioned. I never heard the TV from upstairs, because I grew up in a WWI tract house, and there wasn't a television upstairs, only the one downstairs, and the old Muntz in the basement that went bright and quiet as it warmed up. I once sat in front of it with the flu, and fell asleep under the influence of cough syrup with codeine.
The world changes every minute, for good and ill and otherwise.
4 comments:
bit alarming as the light faded to black and we went back to the dark ages (1953 the year of my birth).
I have a photo taken by my father the same year of a television showing queen elizabeth II being crowned. Apparently lots of people bought their first tvs specially for the occasion. The British experience was doubtless different to the American.
The technological changes are of course the most striking. Sometimes I think that it is agood enough reason to hang on in there and live as long as possible...just to see what unimaginable new things are in store for us in the future.
I've just noticed my husband has gone off with my car keys again. Perhaps there is a gadget that will prevent this. I am designing one in my head that will administer long distance electric shocks...
(o) here via Box Elder. Thanks!
I started BBSing back when 1200baud modems were high speed and I was 15 years old. It certainly opened up a world for me that changed my life. To have had it younger than that might have stifled my social development even more than my social development already was stifled.
Rosie,
It hadn't occurred to me how Ameri-centric it was. Very, now that I think about it.
Nimble,
Welcome.
Phil,
I was 29 when I got on D's friends BBS, a heaven for an introvert.
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