Before the Internet
I am a 26 years old and can’t remember what it was like to live without the Internet. Do you remember what it must have been like?
———- from Jerry Roberti of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Just barely. I’m 47, and my memories are of a Webless[IB1] World as diaphanous as the seat of my old suit pants, but it seems to me that people used to read and write. They would hold pieces of paper in front of their faces and grunt softly in understanding, or sometimes imprint words on a piece of paper and then wrap that piece of paper in another, put a gummed picture of a dead president on it, and then place the whole arrangement in a box, waiting for someone to physically take it across the country, or sometimes even the world, to its intended recipient. I know it sounds crazy, but the antiquated system used to work, most of the time. Now that system is only used to sending bills and junk mail. But back in those olden days, that’s all there was!
Just barely. I’m 47, and my memories are of a Webless[IB1] World as diaphanous as the seat of my old suit pants, but it seems to me that people used to read and write. They would hold pieces of paper in front of their faces and grunt softly in understanding, or sometimes imprint words on a piece of paper and then wrap that piece of paper in another, put a gummed picture of a dead president on it, and then place the whole arrangement in a box, waiting for someone to physically take it across the country, or sometimes even the world, to its intended recipient. I know it sounds crazy, but the antiquated system used to work, most of the time. Now that system is only used to sending bills and junk mail. But back in those olden days, that’s all there was! 