Are you old enough to remember doing research without the Internet at a real (not virtual!) library, or having to carry quarters so you could make a pay phone call in an emergency? It wasn? t all that long ago, yet it feels so foreign to us now. Some time in the future, you might entertain a child with stories of how tough your childhood was because you couldn?t get to the cloud.
OK, so you didn? t have to walk uphill in the snow both ways to go to school like your parents did, but without Windows 7 and the cloud, times were still pretty tough. If you wanted to talk to your friends or compare history notes, there was no such thing as HD Chat to discuss tasks and share files simultaneously. And if you forgot the disc (remember those?) with your work presentation at home, you certainly couldn? t access your PC using Remote Desktop to grab the file.
Oh, and remember when photos were something your mom kept in an album on the coffee table to embarrass you, not the cool and carefully edited shots of you hanging out with the cast of ? The Big Bang Theory? thanks to Photo Fuse.
People like to say the old days were much simpler, but who are we kidding?! Growing up on the cloud is pretty awesome!
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