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Article: A birthday greeting from cyberspace...
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- Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Byline: LES HORTON
THE Internet has just celebrated its 40th birthday, while an extremely close friend has just turned 65.
I link the two because he, like me, is of a generation to whom the Internet, SMS 'texting', Bluetooth and Yahoo Messenger and the like are still mysteries. We are the generation who watched the moon landing in black-and-white on televisions which you had to leave your seat to change the channel and you had to fiddle constantly with the aerial, to get a recognisable picture.
But yesterday, even though I had forgotten to post his card in time (it's on its way, I swear!), my friend still got my birthday greetings, delivered in ...