The longest day of my life is when I was like 18 or so. It was the day I had my wisdom teeth removed. I did all of them at once. This is the one day of my life I was forced to do nothing but lay back and watch TV in dull but powerful pain.  This was still in the early days of the Information Age, before serious portable games, smartphones and the Internet. I’ve had no days longer since that day. I’ve had many days that have left me wondering where the day has gone.
It’s weird now to discuss a time before the Internet. Sure, it kinda existed before 1994, but not in any way that is meaningful to us today. What makes this kinda ironic is that my generation is one of those generations that is going to be able to talk about how things used to be. Not in some silly way like “candy used to cost 5 cents”, but in a real paradigm shift sort, like those old-timers that used to talk about the horse and buggy in times before cars.  From those old-timers we get the stereotypical story of having to “walk 10 miles in the snow to school up hill both ways.” What will my tale be for my grandkids?  I imagine it would be something like like “Back in my day, we didn’t have the Internet. I used to have to drive in a car in bump to bump traffic to get to a building called a library in order to use my library card just to read something.”
BTW, an article or two about SolidWorks Technical Summit – LA will be forthcoming in the next day or two.
