Not quite correct
Posted on 11/01/2009 11:16:49 AM PST by AJKauf
It’s worth looking at how life used to be. Now, as early as a thousand years ago, people didn’t have laptops. Back even further, in the hunting and gathering days — the 60s — there were no computers of any kind. At all. The primary method of social networking was drawing pictures on cave walls. So, for instance, if one of the cave dwellers was hunting buffalo, instead of using his cell phone to update his Facebook status to “kilin buf-lo,” he’d go to the cave wall and draw a picture on it of a buffalo next to himself holding a katana or a ball and chain — you know, whatever it was they used to hunt buffalo.
As you can see, this was a very tedious way to keep people informed of what you’re doing, because painting takes time and you aren’t always near a cave wall, as you could be out building a fire or getting a coffee from Starbucks. Often, one’s CaveWall status went without updates for days and was thus quite out of date. Plus, people were limited to hunting things that were easy to draw.
Now, that all seems rather tedious and hard to manage. In fact, it almost makes directly talking to each other sound easier in comparison — which is usually the first sign of a bad app. But I ask you this: with all your computers and internet and fancy touch screens, how many buffalo have those things helped you to kill?
Yeah, that’s what I thought....
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Pretty funny.
Not only am I going to leave my laptop on, but I’m going to use it more than I ever have. While I still can! That’s before Obama and his communist czars shut us down. Then I’ll go back to writing on the wall of my cave. LOL
Are you an exec at a major TV network..?
That, or an editor at the NYT..?
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Yeah, but back in those days, you couldn’t go to googlemaps and get a terrain map of the area you wanted to go kill the buffalo at...or weather report....or order something directly from Cabela’s website to help you kill that buffalo...or for that matter, check the local game laws for when the season was so you don’t get into trouble with the local fish and game people...
or even round up your hunting buddies via email or twitter...or post pics of the successful hunt on photobucket.
So there.
I miss those days.
I don't need to, I order them on the internet.
Been there, done that. Thanks for the memories.
Well, the comment WAS written by a guy who also said cavemen hunted buffalo with katanas.
... we spent hours at a keypunch machine ( and waiting for one ) and waited hours more for turnaround before getting the output on 130 column spooled paper from a chain printer, then more hours poring over the gibberish to figure out what trivial programming error we made ...
... and we LIKED it that way!
You do admit that you don’t want the computer to be doing everything do you?
I remember the Nancy One. That thing could move some paper. Loud as hell.
I also remember always having a radio around so we could listen for loops in the signals the big iron used to spew all about.
Turn my laptop off???? I finally got to borrow one for the weekend. Of course, I’m going to use it. Besides, if I turn it off, who would pick my berries on Farmville??
“Back even further, in the hunting and gathering days “
I miss those days.
I had a computer programming class in college as a freshmen in 1965.
Speak for yourself. It was pure hell. But a good way to meet the coeds.
Probably not more than once.
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