DocAndersen
I know that as a PPC/future state Windows Phone user in 2007 we made fun of the iPhone. It didn’t have a stylus. How could you use the phone without a stylus? The boy was we wrong; it was easier to use the iPhone than it was to use the PPC and later Windows Phone. I think in part, the stylus was natural for me because I grew up before the age of touch computers. In fairness, I grew up in the age before windows. Not windows you look through, but windows for PCs. My first computer with a GUI was an Apple IIc. That was back in the days of DOS computers. DOS as is Disk Operating System not the Denial of Service that DOS has become in the internet era. Back when you a flashing C:/ prompt.
I got back further than that, to the CPM days, to the Tandy computer days. There was a time when “The Radio Shack” was less a bad mall idea, and more of the place to be. When radio shack was the place, us geeks went to. We would wander the aisles of Radio Shack dreaming. Ham Radios and computers, connectors and wires that we would look at and dream. The Radio Shack named for the communications area of a ship. Everything that was needed for, well every project we could dream up. They, Radio Shack, even introduced us to do more. There were kits you could buy at Radio Shack that taught us how to wire things properly. How to connect and create circuits that turned on a light. I guess we were, back then easily entertained.
Were the original Angry Birds just turning an LED on or off?
The past slipping away now, the memories of Radio Shack less a happy memory and now a sad reminder. Failure is always an option. We strive ever to avoid it, but it is there. We can fail. Radio Shack, in the end, was a sad reminder of that. 50% off. 75% off and then, closed forever replaced by a salon featuring 15 new hair colors you have to try. What was is no more. I wonder what is coming, today!
Technology has come a long way. I am so glad that I basically grew up with Windows, don’t know if I would have been able to work on DOS.
Actually, you did for many years (work on DOS). DOS was the driver under windows until roughly Windows 7 (a little before windows 7 but you get the idea).
Lol you see. I would never have known that.
Now you can add DOS wizard to your resume!
Funny, I saw a Radio Shack opened for business today. Amazing how it survives.
They are limping along. Way down from their high, and really only staying power in a small number of locations.
I miss going to Radio Shack.
The year that you have mentioned seems not far back, but the changes that have occurred seem so far far away.
I agree, Albert. It feels like a short span of time, but a huge span of change!
Before the last millennium, I said that the acceleration of change had occurred at least double every decade since the 19th century, after previously from thousands of years to hundreds, tens and now every month there have been many changes.
That is very true, and yet the predominance of information remains out of reach. The digital world moves forward rapidly but never in one direction.
I agree, and I think we have seen the non-linear tendency as a feature of changing times, especially in the digital world and its influence.
The influence of the digital world is an interesting discussion!
I think what we are doing here, including all of our discussions is digital influence
All is influence, but all is emptiness as well.
I am curious as we make our world smaller, just what digital influence will be in the future.
I remember about a comic book that depicted humans with small arms and legs but having fat stomachs because humans only used their heads and stomach since everything was digital
My kids loved the movie WallE, where humans rode around on sleds and didn’t use their arms or legs. Funny.
That’s really funny indeed. That is my question long ago… Could it be that humans no longer use their hands and feet or only use it in a minimum way?