Flame, Glass and Ink are Poems, essays, and reading notes by Stefania Joori Suh

Prompt 202 on pre-internet age, aka the 1980s

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Do you remember life before the internet?

It was neither the Stone Age nor the Iron Age, for sure. Life before the Internet was livable, just like any other age humans have lived. Yes, landline phones were ubiquitous – rotary and touch-tone, as were LP, Cassette tapes, CDs, VHS, Walkman, and a Dolby System. And remember those great movie posters for promotions? The magazines were big, and so was MTV. People wrote letters, not emails. We thought it was the Age of Science, the more civilized than the generations behind, just as the MZ Generation and those wanting to be one of them so like to think about this as their age.

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    Anthony

    I feel like before the age of the Internet it was the age of music music was so good and now it’s so lousy to me at least. Auto tuners and computers and computers, generated music and AI whatever happened to art???

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      Stephanie Suh

      Yes, I agree with you. These days, the music has no catchy melodies, no cool beats/rhythms, not to mention great lyrics. “Call Back yesterday, bid time return.” – Shakespeare

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