Sunday, 7 June 2009

Stone Age Alert!

I'm half way through Bill Clinton's autobiography. And... (beware: plot spoiler) he's just been elected President. But I can't help but be HORRIFIED to learn that the The White House still wasn't using email in 1992.

How did they communicate? With letters? It would genuinely be quicker to use carrier pigeons.

You'd think that the central hub of the world's superpower would have harnessed email by the 1990s, considering the first one was sent in 1965.

And I recently discovered that at work we have a 'fax machine'. I know. And people actually use it sometimes. Probably only for a joke, but still. Pretty retro.

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