Everything Old

There is an old saying, "Everything old is new again". Life rejuvenates and perpetuates. The old standards find themselves being re worked into modern standards and most of the time people do not even realize it. My case in point, is the way we communicate with each other. The original method of long distance communication was Morse Code. Dot, Dot , Dash, interpreted by the person on the other end of his Morse Code machine, who knew the code. Then years down the line, the telex machine was invented. You sat in front of a large machine and typed your message in full. When you were done you hit a button that would transmit the message, to type into another telex machine. I remember using one of these contraptions as late as 1980. Of course the telephone was always the preferred method of communicating. Imagine, talking to a friend or loved, one hundreds of miles away and hearing their voice in real time. Before we knew it, along came cell phones. You can still hear the live voice, but now you can hear it from anywhere in the world. What freedom of speech! As soon as we all learned how to use our cells, texting became all the rage. The younger generation will have the strongest thumb muscles. I think we may even mutate into growing over sized thumbs if this keeps up. So now, if we really think about it, we are back 150 years ago. Typing to our friends and hitting the send button. I guess everything old is still new again.