Virtual reality, such words that only ten years ago seemed far fetched. Just think, today we twitch in our seat waiting for the new Iphone or Android phone to come out with all the new gadgets intact on it or the new gaming tower with graphics and speeds, that we still complain that are "quite up to where we would like them to be". Are we freaking insane? THINK people, think back to 2003, in December, President Bush signed Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act), OH and you could buy music from iTunes for .99$ each.
Haha, and here we are right now complaining that our computer speeds are slow, only ten years its been that people have been spamming at rates that the government had to pass a law to control it and we (the people) are still non-stop complaining, but this is what we do. How long has Publisher's Clearinghouse been telling you that you "could be" a millionaire by snail mail? OH, have you won? Just asking, because I didn't. I figure this many years, at least someone remotely close to my town should have by now, via the snail mail.
Uhm, you do know what snail mail is, right? It's that long, or short white envelope that you put a hopefully handwritten letter in and lick (bleck, making faces as I type this) the nasty glue, close and put the never ending increase of postage stamps, affixed to the top right corner (upside down means love, at least that's what my mom used to tell me); address it; put it in your mailbox, flag up of course, then the mailman picks it up and this route takes a few days to get to the next person. I still do hand write letters and cards and mail them, by the way. I love regular mail. Let's stop the increases in postage and keep using the USPS, we wonder why it goes up. In any case, regular mail or snail mail has been around forever, well ok, a very long time. Are you still waiting for the check by the way, because that's in the mail too.
As for the internet and virtual reality, not so long. Ipods weren't even introduced into the market until 2001, that's not all that long ago, and now what generation are they on? Online service wasn't available until 1995 and this my friends was dial-up, remember the sounds, right now you are listening to them play over in your head. I can still hear them, and remember that it took, minutes, not seconds, to get one page to load. My first dial-up server was Prodigy online, yes, I should be broke by now, lol. I have been paying for internet service since ohhhh, the early 90's since I could have it. I had internet before that, but Prodigy was the first traditional on-line systems I had. I tried a couple before that. I am trying to remember, 7200 bps, and 14400 bps, I think there was a 9600 bps in there somewhere too. I know I would jump ship every time someone came out faster, the 1-2 min wait for a page to load was a huge difference.
Now that I think about it, I may still have a copy of an old bill laying around in my files somewhere for Prodigy online. The little world would show up and spin. How the memories start flowing back. I had this huge PC from Tandy, I thought I had the top of the line computer, well for the time I did, I even over-clocked it, not that anyone knew or even knows what that means. It was from 1989 and looked like an old style cash register. I still have it and it works, slow as molasses, but it works.
Today I have the new MacBookPro with the retina display well I have a PC laptop too and an iMac as well, I love technology. I love technology and how virtual reality is. It amazes me how we can play games and video chat each other miles away, nearly seamlessly with the feeling of being right next to that person. I do both of these thins quite often, friends and family. I am a true gamer at heart and love to video chat with my friends and especially my mom who lives over 1500 miles away and I miss her dearly.
Every time I sit in front of the video all I can think of is The Jetsons from when I was little and now, one day I will, I want to train my dog to run on the tread mill, so when its raining, we can take a walk indoors, lol! The visaphone I think they called it. I can remember thinking how crazy and far away this idea really was and look, I talk on Skype or Facebook or some other means of video chat several nights a week. What next flying cars? Not for nothing, but that would save on gas milage. The airline companies may not like it as much, unless they get a piece of that action, but it would definitely make my day. Virtual reality, I was just talking to a friend of mine and we had the conversation about how nice it would be to be able to one day just reach in the screen and be able to touch the person, far fetched I know, but hey, you never know. Look how far technology has come in just ten and twenty years. And let us not forget, there are cars that parallel park themselves, now this I find scary and that's a whole other story.
UPDATE 3-1-13 : I have to laugh, seriously, I just opened my laptop, which I never log off of, I just close the top. I'm not in a public place, just home, so no reason to log off or lock it most days and who pops up? Publisher's Clearinghouse...holy crap did I win? Finally, did the tracking cookies find me, here I am, you can direct deposit the check you know in this world of technology, no need to wait for that check to come via snail mail. Thanks so much, but do call to get the correct account information, thanks so much in advance PCH.
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