Not over the hill…yet
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
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This is the last blog I shall write as a 28 year old…For come midnight I gain another wrinkle, my gammy knee gets a bit worse and I start to feel, well, older.
Today’s been one of those days where I’ve felt sorry for myself. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not necessarily worried about getting older, it’s just I’ve always preferred other people’s birthday’s to my own. But in amongst my woe, I’ve realised I’ve got a lot to be grateful for. While I may have had youth on my side 15 or even 10 years ago I was very naive both as a teenager and in terms of technology.
My first introduction to ‘technology’ aside from the TV and phone was mucking around with Casio calculators as a kid trying to see how many rude words I could write by typing in numbers and turning the device upside down.
Fast forward a few years and I remember the old BBC computers we had at school. We had to share them and could spend lesson upon lesson just trying to print out a menu for our fake restaurant using a slow and clunky dot matrix printer with that horrible conjoined printer paper that may well have cost a bit but certainly didn’t look expensive.
Then there was the communications technology. Or lack of it. Not one person I knew had a mobile. In fact, I didn’t get my first mobile until I was 20 and it was a Motorola brick that looked much like a car phone. If you wanted to get hold of someone, you had to ring their landline and politely ask if they were home to anyone who answered other than them. And, you had to be respectful of when you called: I remember calling my school friend Emma up once at 9.30 and being told off by her father 
With mobile technology it would seem the boundaries of what’s socially acceptable (within reason) have shifted. Indeed if you don’t want to risk waking someone with a call you can text them instead.
My first proper job at the
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Loading ...Comment by David Ford - October 19, 2007 on 11:38 am
Speaking as a sixty-six year old - we share a lot - it’s just that I go back farther. The biggest problem we face with technology as you get older is that the screens and the buttons get smaller and more indistinct. Otherwise - which may come as a shock to twenty-somethings - once we put our glasses on, we can program the TV! David
Comment by Mark Tennent - October 22, 2007 on 10:26 pm
once we put our glasses on, we can program the TV
Blimey! I have to take mine off to see the buttons.
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