days of yore.

a couple months ago david's cousin, a senior in high school, was asking if we knew how to properly cite websites for research papers. i thought, "shit, i was awesome at this stuff in school... why can't i remember how to cite websites?" on top of the last time i wrote a term paper being somewhere over a decade ago... we honestly rarely used "the web" as a means of information and/or research. we used textbooks, actual encyclopedias, and remember MICROFICHE?!! aah, periodicals.

and then when we went to the library if we wanted to find a book, we had to go over to that giant wall of apothecary drawers filled with index cards where every book was filed and accounted for, neatly and according to the dewey decimal system. we didn't have to walk eight miles to school in ten feet of snow with no shoes like our parents, but the point is, look at what happens within a decade.

remember when the internet first became public and everyone jumped on that shit? america on-line monopolized on that, real quick -- and then came broadband/high-speed/dsl. no more annoying muffled dial-up screeches, no more initialization waiting time... but how quick we are to forget how efficient our lives have become... the minute something we've grown accustomed to, breaks down or stops working (usually temporarily) -- your cell phone drops a call, "fuck t-mobile, they SUCK." but i bet you're not screaming, "I LOVE T-MOBILE!!" every time a call/text goes through, which happens more than it doesn't. your router is on the fritz, "fucking time warner, pieces of shits." but no one gets excited anymore at the instantaneous response of your current browser of choice all the times your router is working. in the choice words of louis c.k: "how quick the world owes us something, we only found out about, ten seconds ago... you non-contributing zero." or something like that.

the marvels of technology are at our fingertips, literally. the future is now, be amazed.