Notes to Self. A Play With Two Acts

Sometimes I think that my life unfolds like a play with two acts.  

The first act is before Digital Age and then comes the second where Digital Age rules the world. 

When I look back at my early years they often seem alien.  There is the bulky black telephone comfortably nestled on a miniature desk with its rotary dial and a long cord.  On evenings my father often is fighting with antenna on top of our TV vainly trying to get rid of the snow that obscures the soccer game. 

There are the scattered newspapers on a coffee table in the living room, a few Beatles albums and the books on the bookshelves - lots of books- with their colored jackets.  

Then Digital Age comes.  

My first computer was Gateway.  My friend found it in one of those places that rented computers.  My computer costed only seventy bucks.  Wow!  That was such a great deal! 

The computer was slow, really slow.  It rattled loudly, wheezed but worked perfectly well.  

My friends from Applied Technology College helped me with some of Adobe softwares as Photoshop, Dreamweaver (software to create websites), Director and Flash (a software for creating animations) and turned my old computer into a very powerful designer tool. 

I was intrigued, fascinated and, of course, was hooked very quickly on modern technology. 

There was Yahoo. Let's get on Yahoo.  eBay is so cool. Blogging is also fun.  It took only a few minutes to create your own blog and the whole blogging world was at your feet.  

Reading online felt so new, so liberating.  I was spending more and more time online. Even when I was away from my computer I yearned to check e-mails, click on links and do some Googling.  I wanted to be connected all the time. I stopped reading books. At first, I didn't notice it.  When I noticed I couldn't believe. 

You put books down, consciously or unconsciously, but they will wait for you forever and always want you back to be lost in them. The Net also wants you back but mercenary and selfishly. 

I will end up here.  Generally, life is good!