From Pong to Pings: A Digital Divide
From Pong to Pings: A Digital Divide Let me take you back to a simpler time, a world without smartphones, where your biggest concern was whether your Atari 2600 would survive another round of Space Invaders. It was the 1970s, and life was a glorious, analog adventure. My childhood was a tapestry of freedom and imagination. Summers were spent exploring woods, building forts, and engaging in epic water balloon battles. The only real danger was the neighbor's dog, a behemoth named Brutus who seemed to have a personal vendetta against bicycles. But even that was a thrilling element of the great outdoors. Television was a magical portal to distant lands. Shows like "Scooby-Doo" and "The Brady Bunch" were our daily companions. We didn’t have a hundred channels to choose from; we had three, and we were perfectly content. And let’s not forget the public service announcements. “This is your brain on drugs” was a constant reminder that even in the carefre...