tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post3867996632870037349..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: WHY WE ARE SPECIAL By Eleanor UpdaleMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-9597133514323481282011-09-26T02:21:14.950+01:002011-09-26T02:21:14.950+01:00Fascinating. Thank you for such a thoughtful--and ...Fascinating. Thank you for such a thoughtful--and thought-provoking--post!Vicky Alvear Shecterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570828339389206203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-63405580578916841982011-09-25T22:49:52.480+01:002011-09-25T22:49:52.480+01:00Brilliant, Ellie! Coming late to this, but you are...Brilliant, Ellie! Coming late to this, but you are SO RIGHT!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-64457772978255603742011-09-25T17:28:04.319+01:002011-09-25T17:28:04.319+01:00Very well put. Anyone want to write a history of t...Very well put. Anyone want to write a history of the shifting default?Louisa Youngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-63401442518742984562011-09-25T15:24:09.743+01:002011-09-25T15:24:09.743+01:00A truly fascinating post. I hadn't thought of ...A truly fascinating post. I hadn't thought of us as being the last bearers of a past pre-computer age. I'm one of the 'ancients' who had my twenty year old sons disappear into the unknown world before mobile phones and had to rely on infrequent and frustratingly indistinct phonecalls made from call boxes from places with names that all seem to begin with a Z or were simply not on any map... although the phone booths had moved on from the 'tickey-box' era.Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-80157647299569045152011-09-25T12:22:12.289+01:002011-09-25T12:22:12.289+01:00An excellent and thought-provoking post. I feel it...An excellent and thought-provoking post. I feel it's the gaps and spaces in life in the past that make it so so attractive to write about, as well as being a time when objects perhaps carried more meaning than the latest must have purchase, unless I'm deluded.<br /><br />Must say that the thought of writing about supermarkets & malls never inspires me though maybe they will inspire writers fifty years on?Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-69583749299773575962011-09-25T09:02:59.756+01:002011-09-25T09:02:59.756+01:00Really interesting post. Sometimes, it's frigh...Really interesting post. Sometimes, it's frightening to think how quickly things have changed in such a relatively short period.<br /><br />You're right - anyone born during the technology/information boom will have little understanding of how things were before all these possibilities. Recently my friend was explaining to her teenage son how they didn't have the internet when she was his age. His response: well, what did you use your computer for, Mum?Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06573809532018015486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-54773683759772075622011-09-25T03:07:35.786+01:002011-09-25T03:07:35.786+01:00Thanks, Eleanor, for a very thought provoking post...Thanks, Eleanor, for a very thought provoking post. I'd never considered this side of technology. Your use of D Day as an illustration really brought it home to me exactly how much things have changed. I'd never looked at it in that light before.J.T. Websterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18042422842347246547noreply@blogger.com