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Hey Michael,
Nice of hear some new voices...
Why hard copy?
It's just that the Old Guard is becoming nostalgic of the Good Ol'
Days. You know, when the mailman would come at the door and hand in a few
letters and we'd offer him a beer and he would talk about the latest gossips in
the village and the kids would ask for the stamp on the enveloppe to trade at
school for a 2-Centavos 1934 from the Pickwick Islands and we would sit at the
table at night and take our fountain pen and write to our sweetheart backhome
and wait for her reply in a fortnight and smell the sweet scent of her perfume
on the letter and we would walk up the stairs and hear the wind blowing outside
and see the frost on the windows and feel the cold draft as we walked to our
room and we would blow off the candle and lay in bed with the
satisfaction of an accomplished life.
Oh, yes! These were the days when a web was just something
in the corner of the room to wisk away with a broom. When an abacus
was a computer. When silver coated photographic paper...
These, Michael, were the gold old days...!
And then you'll grow so old that your back is bent so much that you can
hardly keep your beard from sweeping the floor and that you have humpteen
great-grand-children climbing all over you and that they all want to know about
the web and that you say: "Oh yes! I've know the Web when this was
the way we would send mail and pictures around. And we would chat on the
web!"
Oh, yes! These will then be the good old days...!
Are these the true reasons for a hard copy?
Heck, no! It's just for the pleasure of it...
Damn' the cost of postage...
Guy
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