It would be hard to get a lot of stuff done without a computer. I probably wouldn’t be able to write this blog without a laptop, but if I just had to make do, I would write on pen and paper just like the old days. I think it would have been harder in 2020 since we had an emergency in place and many if not all people were told not to go out, so many people had to rely on Zoom and other videoconferencing and online tools to communicate. But even during 2020 and before 2020, I remember writing letters to my friends and family. I probably would communicate with mostly pen and paper and the telephone if I didn’t have a computer. I definitely remember a time when I wasn’t using a computer all the time. It wasn’t until I got a little older, maybe around 10 or so, that I started getting on the computer more and playing computer games (gosh, now that I think about it, there were so many great computer games: Zoombinis, Clue Finders, Carmen Sandiego…but I’m going on a tangent.)
But I think about what people did before computers were invented, and I forget that they still somehow managed to communicate with each other through calling on the phone and writing letters, and hell, even walking to someone’s house to communicate a message. I’ve really been reflecting on my own phone and laptop usage and my own history of technology, and I really want to explore this more in depth.
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