Comments on: Using the Internet in 1955 Helped My “Girls.” http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/ Baby Boomer guy writing about stuff of interest primarily to boomers, or people who know one. No politics, few rants, attempted humor. Suitably old, mysteriously advanced. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:23:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ hourly 1 By: Kirk M http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-6259 Kirk M Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:26:54 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/#comment-6259 Telegraph messages? Yah, until I developed a bad case of Carpal Telegraph Syndrome and then I had to bring on another author...with a good wrist...she worked out fine. <em>Kirk M's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustThinkin/~3/260401303/' rel="nofollow">Lights Out!</a></em> Telegraph messages? Yah, until I developed a bad case of Carpal Telegraph Syndrome and then I had to bring on another author…with a good wrist…she worked out fine.

Kirk M’s last blog post..Lights Out! ]]> By: Going Like Sixty http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-6258 Going Like Sixty Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:18:13 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/#comment-6258 @Kirk: Stop it! This isn't a fair fight. You're too old. :-) Did any readers actually get a telegraph message? <em>keepingyouinstitches's last blog post..<a href='http://keepingyouinstitches.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/bitchin-bathing-suits-at-sams/' rel="nofollow">“Bitchin’ bathing suits at Sam’s”</a></em> @Kirk: Stop it! This isn’t a fair fight. You’re too old. :-) Did any readers actually get a telegraph message?

keepingyouinstitches’s last blog post..“Bitchin’ bathing suits at Sam’s” ]]> By: Kirk M http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-6257 Kirk M Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:36:17 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/#comment-6257 Can you say; mimeograph? Used to crank out the church bulletins by the hundreds when I was a kid. Same thing as a ditto machine. Punch cards? Paper tape readers/writers? and "I'd walk a mile for a Camel" and "Taste Me, Taste Me" (Doral) Yeah, go ahead...I'm ready. <em>Kirk M's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JustThinkin/~3/260401303/' rel="nofollow">Lights Out!</a></em> Can you say; mimeograph? Used to crank out the church bulletins by the hundreds when I was a kid. Same thing as a ditto machine.

Punch cards? Paper tape readers/writers?

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“I’d walk a mile for a Camel” and “Taste Me, Taste Me” (Doral) Yeah, go ahead…I’m ready.

Kirk M’s last blog post..Lights Out! ]]> By: goinglikesixty http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-6238 goinglikesixty Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:19 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/#comment-6238 @Gretchen: no back then it was call "radio." LSMFT is all I can remember from cig commercials. Oh, and Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette Should. @Gretchen: no back then it was call “radio.” LSMFT is all I can remember from cig commercials. Oh, and Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette Should. ]]> By: Gretchen http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-6235 Gretchen Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:17:40 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/28/using-the-internet-in-1955-helped-my-girls/#comment-6235 Booger. Stuff from that era is ALL I can remember; I can hardly remember last week, but I can sing several cigarette advertising jingles word-for-word. But back in the fifties, didn't they call it the Information Superhighway? <em>Gretchen's last blog post..<a href='http://www.suburbanhippie.com/?p=338' rel="nofollow">Epicenter.</a></em> Booger. Stuff from that era is ALL I can remember; I can hardly remember last week, but I can sing several cigarette advertising jingles word-for-word.

But back in the fifties, didn’t they call it the Information Superhighway?

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