During MY Early Days

It is not a rare sight today when you walk down the streets, this is what you would have seen most of the time.

 



 

Ten years ago if I tell people someday I can just make a call and reading the newspaper at the same time using my hand phone, I will be labelled as nuts.

 

Can you imagine that with a Nokia 5210?

 

And yes, that is exactly my first phone. At my age, having a hand phone is a privilege.

But in today's world, without a hand phone? That is called Stone-age.

But time flies. Things changed.

If you notice one thing whenever you speak to an older man, say in his 50s, this phrase will be quite familiar.

"During the early days..."

And yes, during MY early days, this is something familiar.

Remember those days when we need to do a dial up in order to get connected to the internet?

 

And when you are connected, the "ak-ou!" sounds came to life.

The ICQ.

Also the MIRC.

To be honest I managed to hook up a few dates with girls via MIRC those days.

But shit does happens at times.

That is normal.

And yes, it happened to me couple of times.

Even for girls, do not laugh. Shits HAPPENED to you girls too.

Also, during MY early days, my mum always says:

"Why always on Facebook!! You got nothing better to do mer?? Kid nowadays..."

The next thing I knew.

How time flies, how people changed.

Wondering what would happened if she has discovered Friendster in the early days.

Funnily enough, whenever I called home these days, a simple questions like "Did you guys had your dinner?"

Out of 10 times, 5 times the reply will come like this.

"You didn't see Facebook mer? Today your father cooked some crabs and we POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK!"

"No I didn't notice that..."

"It's OK. We will TAG you in the picture".

"Thanks mum! But NO thanks!"

Yes. The world has changed.

Much faster than I would have thought.

I would love to know, ten years down the road, what would have change?

I am going to talk about that in my post, in July 2024.