Sorry. Got to be a little serious here.
There are still people in this world that have not seen an electric
light bulb and I suspect that there still will be in 2026.
Regards
John

--- Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At 13:58 7/16/99 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >It was thirty years ago today that the first trip
> to the Moon began. Apollo
> >11 lifted off from Cape Kennedy at 8:32 in the
> morning, local time.
> >
> <snip>
>
> I remember going to my aunt and uncle's house and
> watching the moon landing
> with my grandmother.  My grandmother, who was born
> in 1898 and raised in a
> lumber camp in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, remarked
> that she remembers the
> first time she saw an electric light bulb.
>
> I thought it absolutely remarkable, and still do,
> that someone could
> remember the first time she saw an electric light
> and watch someone walk on
> the moon.  The technological changes, and societal
> changes caused by those
> technological changes, between those two events
> happened in an
> astonishingly short time.  I often wonder what our
> world will look like in
> 2026 when I am 71.
>
>
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