Saturday, January 29, 2011

There's No Internet?

Think of the days before the late 1970s.

Information transfer and sharing  is slow. Breaking news, if they are big time, could only be spread worldwide using the television and cable networks. Access and retrieval of information required spending hours flipping through the card catalogues in libraries or going over disk-stored databases. Could be frustrating if the journal or reference materials are not in the library's collections!

Communication system is generally slow. Snail mail take a lot of time to get into their destination. No emails, no chats, no videoconferences. No internet porn, streaming videos and movies, no youtube, no blogs..

Ahhhhh, must be a different kind of life. But we all went through...just fine!

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