

A Moment of Reminiscence
It’s hard to remember now what life was like fifty or so years ago: no computers (except for vast, bulky machines locked in vaults, with lights blinking and wheels whirring), no mobile phones (not even the brick-like, hand-wound things that came out a decade or so later), and of course no internet or social media. Messages had to be written out by hand; televisions had to be switched on and off using buttons and dials on the set itself; telephones belonged in kiosks placed ar