Get Offa My Lawn
Jul. 23rd, 2009 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomEvery once in awhile, there has to be one of the really stupid articles out there, listing all the stuff that's obsolete now because technology has moved on.
You guys know I'm as much a nostalgia buff as anybody, and I've got books from when I was in single digits. But I'm always amused when someone publishes something like this as if it's A Vital Part Of Our Heritage that kids remember NCSA Mosaic or how the writer opened a Kit-Kat bar. I'm more amused when they say things like shortwave radio and printed magazines are becoming obsolete -- the entire world is not as well-wired as, well, Wired. And it's amazing how you forget that, the more sophisticated stuff is, the more spectacular and difficult-to-fix it is when it breaks. Whatever else it may do, a printed book or magazine won't crash.
What do you really miss from your childhood, that you're worried future generations will never enjoy in the same way you did? I think kite-flying can be pretty cool. I miss watching Sir Graves Ghastly on Saturdays -- nowadays he would be considered high camp at absolute best, and it's not like I thought he was a real vampire or anything, but that kinda shtick simply won't fly these days, except as comedy. (Yeah, I know, it was, but still. You know what I mean.) And I actually enjoy fishing -- well, not the fishing part, but the sitting on the pier with a cold Pepsi and listening to the water lap and watching things go by part.
You guys know I'm as much a nostalgia buff as anybody, and I've got books from when I was in single digits. But I'm always amused when someone publishes something like this as if it's A Vital Part Of Our Heritage that kids remember NCSA Mosaic or how the writer opened a Kit-Kat bar. I'm more amused when they say things like shortwave radio and printed magazines are becoming obsolete -- the entire world is not as well-wired as, well, Wired. And it's amazing how you forget that, the more sophisticated stuff is, the more spectacular and difficult-to-fix it is when it breaks. Whatever else it may do, a printed book or magazine won't crash.
What do you really miss from your childhood, that you're worried future generations will never enjoy in the same way you did? I think kite-flying can be pretty cool. I miss watching Sir Graves Ghastly on Saturdays -- nowadays he would be considered high camp at absolute best, and it's not like I thought he was a real vampire or anything, but that kinda shtick simply won't fly these days, except as comedy. (Yeah, I know, it was, but still. You know what I mean.) And I actually enjoy fishing -- well, not the fishing part, but the sitting on the pier with a cold Pepsi and listening to the water lap and watching things go by part.
