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The internet is truly an amazing beast! A technical phenomenon!
A few weeks ago, the kids were watching a movie. Christina Applegate was typing on a typewriter. I asked Alyssa if she knew what it was. She responded, “I have no clue.” No clue? Are you kidding me? I received a really nice typewriter as a gift once and I thought I was hot stuff. And by the way, it’s not typing class anymore, it’s keyboarding. It is also no longer standard practice to put two spaces after a period. You only need one. This was a hard habit for me to break.
Last night, Alyssa came home from school and said she had a report to do. She wants to do it on some soccer dude. I started thinking this is going to be easy. I told her, “No problem, we’ll just Google him and get the information.” I thought back to when I had to do reports. It involved going to the library, searching through the card catalog, cross referencing the card catalog and then finding the books in the library. As I made my way down the aisles analyzing the Dewey Decimal System hoping the book I needed wasn’t checked out.
Now we have the social networks of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. You can find, reconnect and stay connected with anyone, anywhere. Some people even have their own blogs. Oh yeah, that’s what this is.
Ah, the World Wide Web, how did we ever survive without you? I wonder what will be next…
May 1st, 2009 at 11:54 am
WOW that sounds like a lot of work just to do a report. I am guessing this is the reason I never did one !!!! LOL
May 5th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I so remember those days too! I’ve spent many, many hours in libraries doing research. It is amazing how things have changed; our kids have no idea how easy they have it now! OMG — I’m beginning to sound like my mother.