Relic
This hurts.
Yesterday I got to read Gadgets magazine. They have this page called Relic, where they feature old technology and those that have been considered "gadgets" during their time (which is like decades ago).
So what was their featured relic? Lo and behold, it’s the typewriter.
So the typewriter’s a relic now?!
Goodness, I remember using the typewriter when doing book reports in elementary and even in high school. I remember the Journ people carrying portable typewriters for their subject. I even experienced the trial-and-error way of inserting the bond paper in the correct way, and working with blackened hands after replacing the ribbon. We had loads of carbon paper at home to make duplicates (which made my hands a whole lot dirtier) and we also had to buy those correction ribbons so that editing would be a lot easier. Plus we had to make drafts on sheets of intermediate pads so that we wouldn’t have to waste too much bond paper. And I had to endure callouses brought about by my fingers slipping in between the keys.
I even remember my mom’s super-talent of typing really fast on the old and trusty typewriter. Now, she’s having a hard time working on MS Word. She even doesn’t know how to turn on the computer.
This sucks, ‘coz I know I’ll be like my mom in the future.
Ah yes, we live in a new world where technology is updated every four months.
God, no wonder I feel so old.
