[ExI] net wisdom

[William Flynn Wallace]

I loved Pong.  Wish I still had it.  bill w

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:56 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] net wisdom
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> >…Tara - Currently, aging people tend to become set in their ways, less
> able and therefore less eager to learn new technologies. …Look at what
> has happened in a lot of new tech:  computer chips with a lot of memory
> enable stuffing products with all sorts of uses most of us will never use…
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> I am truly grateful I live in these times.  Some of us here are old enough
> to remember the first commercial computer games, Pong and Asteroids.
> Perhaps you were one who had the original home game consoles which could do
> nothing but play Pong.  Were you?  I was.
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> Remember how much fun we had with Pong?  We played that little game until
> the paddles wore out.  Such fun!  Games became more sophisticated.  We
> ended up with Nintendo and such, but there was one step I didn’t foresee:
> all these apps and games becoming free.  Some of them are really excellent,
> and free!  All our fondest dreams came to pass: really good software, so
> much of it available free, the limiting reagent being only the spare time
> to download them and learn to play.
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> I am one who has a hard time getting my head around the concept that this
> much value can be had for nothing more than the time invested in
> downloading and learning the rules of the game.
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