Never Dreaming

As a child we watched George Jetson face-timing Mr. Spacely. We knew this would never come to fruition. Our stereo players took an entire end table. Videotaping was not even a future dream. Tape recorders were enormously heavy and bulky. We might be able to borrow Daddy’s to tape our voices. If it was a special occasion and we promised not to hurt it. As electronic as we got, but we did not use the word electronic. Back in my day there were no computers – not home or office. I was out of high school before I ever heard the word computer. The few that existed took up a full room in a university. We had not met VCR tapes yet, our music was on records. In 1984 my husband and I bought a word processor. The salesman told us it was the first one sold west of the Mississippi. It was an Osbourne, followed by an Olivetti 248. I learned terms I had never heard before in my life. Storage, disc, data, it was like learning a new language. VCR tapes and players were being sold now. we purchased six hundred of those tapes. never dreaming they would not always be the most current thing. not realizing there would ever be home computers or personal computers or cell phones unhooked to walls We would have laughed our guts out at the idea of Facetime Never dreaming that years later we would be face-timing Mr. Spacely