Not to be trite (so I won't say, a day late...) but yesterday was the anniversary of something we've mostly come to take for granted.
The 45th anniversary of the invention of the internet.
I don't know what my life was actually like before www.
TV and cable (but I think I used rabbit ears on my set). Radio. Phones that were beginning to be cordless. And even portable phones, which were pretty big...and all you could do was talk on them. I also had a new invention called a (what were they called, they beeped...ah) beeper.
Before those days, pay phones were available in urban areas.
Before the internet I had to write letters (or cards) and wait a week at least to hear from my friends...unless I paid long distance rates to talk to them.
Also yesterday was Cat Day. That should be on your calendars next year.
What a great looking sleeping cat. I think internet starts were begun near here at Ames, Iowa ISU.
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