Comments on: Don’t Donate that Fax Machine to the Smithsonian Yet

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:13:11 +0000

remember the rotary dial? my mother in law refuses to get rid of her — she pays extra to keep it, although maybe now they are kicking her off the grid? lol

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:17:52 +0000

Ha! She doesn’t write to her daughter because she talks to much and it uses up too much of the old lady’s time! I love that!

My kids don’t know what a pain a rotary dial phone was, especially if someone had too many 8’s or 9’s in their number. Talk about using up too much of one’s time!!

By: Suzy

Suzy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:15:48 +0000

I wish I’d known about Celery the last 3 times my computer(s) have blown up.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:41:53 +0000

We have a roatry phone! It figures though , right?

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:40:20 +0000

That daughter of hers is such a time waster:) This reminds me that I should tweet one of these days. The Guedelon site is closed until March so I’ve been silent on that account:) Cheers to you Twitter goddess!

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:04:16 +0000

LOL.. you’re not alone. This reminded me of when my son (now 22) was around 4 and my cousin was babysitting him one afternoon. She had some laundry to iron and he watched her closely, asking what she was doing, what it was supposed to do.. how it worked… etc. She was stunned that he’d never seen one before. I did in fact own one, but I have never been seen using it.

By: Heather Kephart

Heather Kephart — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:01:24 +0000

Margo! That is so freaking funny! I too love the bit about her daughter talking too much. Ah, we lose our filters as we get older, don’t we? lol

By: Viridian

Viridian — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:08:43 +0000

How about a ROTARY telephone?

By: Dutch Donut Girl

Dutch Donut Girl — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:03:06 +0000

Ha! It’s really funny that she’d rather twitter than talk to her daughter who talks too much

I have fond memories of my walkman. Nobody else seems to remember its existance.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:41:36 +0000

This rings so true in so many ways. I am 41 – and people I work with have no idea what a dial-up connection is, cassette tape, or *gasp* snail mail.

Well done!