Its a small world after all!

I've been checking out the traffic stats of this new blog I recently created and I've noticed several hits coming from Poland.   I hope the people coming from there have liked my blog! 

Welcome to my silly blog!

You see, I'm an old geezer.  Well, mid-fourties.  The idea of a world-wide internet and instant communication still somewhat amazes me.  It wasn't so long ago that none of these things existed and the idea of someone sitting with a laptop half a world away could be reading your words instantly was just science fiction!  Oh and watching videos or real time cam feeds, sheesh, Star Trek didn't even have that!  

I remember one time back in the mid 90s, I was on a game forum, X-Com Enemy Unknown I think, and someone posted that it was a bright sunny day.  Someone else responded that, what are you talking about, its the middle of the night?  The guy was from Australia.  Even my fellow gamers at the time didn't stop to think that that forum was available to everyone everyplace.  The idea that this guy was talking about strategy against those pesky Sectoids from half a world away was just mind boggling!

Yes, yes, I know to all you youngin's now, this is just the way things are.  Its like someone glurging on about indoor plumbing to you.  But to me, its really still amazing and new.  Think about it.  People from places that I will most probably never see or visit in my life are coming here to read my mindless babblings!

See, this is what happens too when you get old, you babble like this.  Oh don't laugh, its going to happen to you!  It happens to everyone eventually, if you're lucky!