Do you remember life before the internet?
Was there life (before internet) ??
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Some funnies:
*in the 1960’s: ONE US $ was Dutch guilders (Ngl) 3.60. I earned Ngl. 350 per month (as a Dutch airline cabin attendant).
Which meant: going to the USA privately, was really unaffordable. Buying stuff there: unaffordable.
*A pair of high-heeled shoes: in a fancy shop on Fifth Avenue NEW YORK: $350!!🤓. In PARIS, by comparison: chique, the latest: NGL 115 (in French francs) – more affordable, and more upbeat too.
*I am a EUROPEAN – and very happy/grateful some US chaps invented Internet, the World Wide Web, all that great technology we have NOW enabling me to communicate globally: tack tack: and: either published or in someone’s ELECTRONIC mailbox.
*And able to BUY eBooks, fully automated – with 1 click.💕🥰
God bless 🙏 🥰
(I worked for HK – 1967/1989)
Not yet Internet, everything by personal appointment/visit, pen/paper, LANDLINE, good old-fashioned MAIL, and TELEX.
In the distance: The RIJKSMUSEUM (REMBRANDT, & other famous Dutch masters). And a typical Amsterdam canal. That has NOT CHANGED: to do, to see.
Internet is unavoidable, love or hate it.
Remembering before: I can do that!
But soon: most adults never shall know how life used to be. Unless of course they go LIVE *off the grid*, for fun.🙈💞
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