RE: Vocab-ability Prefix–293 (meg__, max__, maj__ = big, great) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)
Ya, LPs, cassettes, and, going back another decade, 8-track tapes!! Remember them?
Nor will the millennials ever understand what it was like to work on a simple word processor. Or, a few decades previously, a typewriter!!
I remember when my university installed a few clunky computers, way up on the 4th floor of the library. My Vietnamese-American friend told me about them, all excited and optimistic. I shrugged, and continued to type my essays on my trusty typewriter.
She went on to establish a computer services company, and she eventually made shitloads of money maintaining computers and intranets for various large corporations and banks.
Me, I got a jobs as an English teacher and as an editor and writer. And a freelance writer on Steemit!! :-)
I started with "wordstar". You had to memorize a series of commands just to set the margins or for a word in italics.
Recently I took out some cassettes with the intention of having an old recording of mine. When my 14-year-old daughter saw me the cassettes in my hand she asked me: what is that daddy? I could not believe it, I thought I was kidding. But then I came to my senses and I understood that she had never had the opportunity to know what it was. So I had to give him a little explanation and demonstration. You know what? she got bored with my explanation.
I'm going to look for my old machine and I'm going to take a trip to the past. I'm sure I'll miss the "backspace".
PS: dear friend, I have always thought that your initiative with "MY VOCAB PRACTICE" is simply great. I would like other Venezuelan friends of mine to do these practices.
Would it bother you if I made a small post on my blog inviting your practices?
If you think in another way that I could promote this, let me know please.
Please, make a post inviting others to come to my Vocab-ability posts. There are just under 100 posts remaining, so there's still plenty to learn.
And once I finish this ~400 post series, I'm thinking or re-running the entire series, with a slightly revised format. Why not...?
Thanks for taking part actively. Cheers!
Thank you Friend.