When I was a boy: Life before the Internet


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 27 Oct 2016

Think about the future: The author (front row, left) growing up in the 1970s. Yes, before the Internet.

Remember the joke where the old man says that when he was a youngster, he had to walk 10 miles to school?

You know, the joke that usually starts with, “When I was a boy…”?

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