Technology is changing and it is changing us. The Joy of Tech's latest offering puts it all into perspective and you can't help but think, how true!

There is a famous Monty Python sketch - Four Yorkshiremen - where each partition claims to have had a harder life than the previous

 "We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread..."

If you know it then you will probably be reminded of it when you read:

"We typed on with REAL keyboards, hooked up to BIG screens on REAL computers". 

When I read it I couldn't help but think that:

"I typed on real card punches, looked up to piano rules lineprinter papers on computers that would fill a room."

 Now read on:

Visit Joy of Tech for a high quality version and a poll on what you think of the state of the Internet .

Of course there is a chance that your attention span didn't get you to the end of the panel. 

But if it did - didn't you revel in the idea of real conversations on real forums, and real ASCII emoticons?

So what would your next Yorkshireman say?

REAL warm tubes, the sound of a sliderule, the TRUE joy of an acoustic coupled modem?

And what about the next generation version?

We had a REAL Siri in those days without the need for a synth body...

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