I was going to start this by saying that I look forward to the day when I can tell my grand kids about how the internet used to be, but then I started to get really depressed and didn’t want to think about how old I would be.  But hey maybe they will have made some really good age retarding drugs, removed a bunch of protiens from our body to slow down organ failures, or I will have died and been put on ice for 15 years.  It doesn’t matter because even though it is depressing, I am still excited.

Excited to be able to say to them, “You kids don’t know how good you have it.  With all the information feeding into your brain directly.  Hell, you even got iBubble where music seems like it is playing within a four feet bubble all around you, only you can hear it.  Back in our day, we actually had to sit down in front of a thing called a personal computer to access the internet.  That lasted until about the time I was 17.  But lets talk about the internet on the personal computer first.

I guess you kids don’t have any idea what a browser is?  No?  Well that is a hard concept to explain seeing how your brain does all that work for you now.  God, you have it easy.  We actually had to double click (physically), wait for like two minutes for it to dial through a modem and phone line, shit you guys don’t even know what a phone line is, just for us to connect to the internet.

Once we were connected, this is like 1997 you know, all we could view was black text on white back grounds, and occasionally, very occasionally.  I mean so f-ing occasionally, we got a picture, in black and white, from the Hubble telescope.  The 1998 rolled around and finally we got some color.  It was bad, you ever heard of 16 bit Nintendo?  No?  Alright then, bare with me.  We were limited to like two shades of green, blue, yellow, red, black, grey, pink and purple, oh yeah and of course white.  So naturally people put yellow text on pink background.  Horrible.  And!!! You know that font we saw in the museum the other day?  Yeah? Comic Sans?! Yeah that one!  They actually had the nerve to use it to make websites.

It got better when we got more colors and more pictures from the Hubble.  A few years after the turn of the century, we were hit with Web 2.0.  And that was really cool.  Green and purple bubbly fonts were everywhere.  You had your blues and pinks in Helvetica, and green, blue, red and yellow in something like Times New Roman.

Things were looking up when we finally got cell phones.  I know, I am showing my age, I was around for that.  And they came with really low level browsers that distorted all we had strived for with Web 2.0.  Then came the iPhone and it has all been down hill from there.”

That is what I am going to say to my grand kids.  Plus all the new stuff that happens until then.  What with cloning and all, that could be like 18 months.

I saw this on Design You Trust and I had to share it here.  It is so true however; if you don’t have an iPhone and someone you know does, your their.  I mean really.  You’re like BAM! “Can I hold your iPhone? Can I play with it? That things awesome. Isn’t it crazy expensive?” are just a few of the things that are coming out of your mouth.  So if you are like that, because I know I am.  This comic is for you.  Enjoy!