2050

[marval]

2050. Eric is at home with his mum.

Eric: Mum, why is there a rectangle in the wall?

Mum: That's called the front door darling. You can go through it to the outside.

Eric: What's the outside?

Mum: It's where people used to go before we had computers and the internet. They went outside to make friends.

Eric: I've got lots of friends. But not Luke. I unfriended him because he supports Everton.

Mum: It was different before Facebook. People met their friends in real life.

Eric: My friends were here last week for my party.

Mum: They were holograms dear.

Eric: I threw virtual blancmange at Jessica. He he he.

Mum: That was naughty Eric. People also went outside to go to the shops.

Eric: Like Amazon?

Mum: No darling, the old shops were like houses with big windows.

Eric: I've got Windows 26 on my third PC.

Mum: I don't mean... never mind dear.

Eric: Mum, will I ever go outside?

Mum: Yes darling, when you get married you go outside to find a new house to live in.

Eric: Oooh mum, how do you get married?

Mum: You click on match.com dear.

Eric: Oooh mum can I get married now? Please please please.

Mum: I suppose so darling. You are 43.

[Kiki-frog]

That is so funny, I love it. A bit disturbing, but funny.

[TheOtherHalf]

lol :>)

[Jemisa]

Its getting like that now I think Frightening really.
lol.

jem

[grasscarp]

To think that when many of us were young, we did maths without calculators, changed the tv channels by getting up and walking to the tv, walked to the library for information, found people at locations without such a thing as a mobile phone, wrote letters to people, took photographs on cameras with film and took it to be developed and somehow found partners without a dating site!

[marval]

We did indeed grasscarp

[Arksided]

Odd but brilliant. Nowadays I do have to text to find out where the Toilet roll is and then twitter about it!

[marval]

lol@Arksided

[Gizmonster]

That's quality - consider it nicked and on my fb status lol :P

[tenrec]

Brilliant, love it. How true.

[starone]

The first time I noticed people were using calculators was when the shop assistant used one to work out 10 items at 2p each. Just add a nought you fool (I thought but didn't say I was too amazed).

[seadogg]

A lot of folk didn't take their films to a chemist in the black and white days as you know grasscarp. What an adventure that was after a holiday!

[grasscarp]

I have somewhere a photo of my mum skirt and legs only in a black and white photo. Nowadays you would review the shot digitally, delete and go again. I also have photo with a completely random person shaking a tablecloth halfway across a picture. The pictures you got back were a bit of a revelation at times.

[zebo]

We also had those paper things in the car, think they were called maps, they didn't send us the wrong way unless we allowed them to!