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I don't normally forward very many emails or do very many of the on line surveys. There's just way too much flotsam going around to respond to every piece or inundate fellow emailers with them. But this one came through during my melancholy-for-my-youth period (little laugh) and it seemed appropriate to place it down here. I'm sure you've read it before, I have.

1. When I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the dang library and look it up ourselves...
In the card catalog.. (Do you even know what a card catalog is? Didn't
think so.)

2. There was no email.. We had to actually write somebody a letter...
With a pen. Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put
it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there.

3. There were no MP3's or Napsters. If you wanted to steal music, you
had to hitchhike to the dang record store and shoplift it yourself. Or
you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ
would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up.

4. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting. If you were on the
phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it.

5. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either. When the phone
rang, you had no idea who it was. It could be your school, your mom,
your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just
didn't know... You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister.

6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics. If we were lucky, we had Video Pong and
later on the Atari 2600. With games like "Space Invaders" and
"asteroids" and the graphics were horrible. Your guy was a little
square. You actually had to use your imagination. And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever. And you
could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and
faster and faster until you died. Just like LIFE.

7. When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium
seating. All the seats were the same height. If a tall guy or some old
broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were
just screwed.

8. Some of us had no cable...only 3 stations (maybe) that you had to
go outside and turn the antennae to be able pick up. Later on, we had
cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and
there was no onscreen menu. You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to
find out what was on.

And there was no Cartoon Network either. You could only get cartoons
on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying.?. We had to wait ALL
WEEK for cartoons.

9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up,
we had to use the stove or go build a fire ... Imagine that. If we
wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing or a pan with
HOT oil and Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove
forever like an idiot.

10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents
walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that
ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had
enough length to sit on the floor and still be able to twirl the phone
cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess
what we had to do..... Hang up and talk to them later.