It All Went By So Fast
I just realized that 20 years ago, I was using an IBM PC and a 1200 baud modem to connect to local bulletin boards.
I was getting ready to graduate from high school, and still didn’t know where I would go to college.
Bill Clinton was giving his first inaugural address:
I still feel like I’m that 17-year-old kid a lot of the time. The last 20 years feel like a perpetual ongoing “last week” in a lot of ways. It’s not until I look at images from that time, and they look almost like historical relics, that I realize how much we have all changed. Although as I listen to the speech, I also think about how much hasn’t changed.
About Dave Thomer
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.