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id: 2026-04-11T23:50:56-0400
title: 2026-04-11 23:50:56
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date-created: 2026-04-11T23:50:56-04:00
daily: "[[2026-04-11]]"
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# 2026-04-11 23:50:56

## already two from today

![300](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81L00i9fdmL.jpg)

While antiquing with my mom [[2026-04-03]]
I found a flip open A-Z address directory.
I had never seen one before
and using it made me genuinely excited.
I was considering how I might use it
when I remembered that it
(like dozens of other clever devices, I'm sure)
had been made obsolete by the cell phone
which has been ubiquitous as long as I've been alive.

I thought about my typewriter.
I asked my mom if,
when she was my age,
she was ever intrigued the same way,
by dead tech.
She said she wasn't,
that she was always happy for the replacement.

It's not exactly fair, I guess.
I've got my pick of hundreds
killed by the PC alone.
She was just older than me now,
had used them all she cared to,
was happy to see them go.

I'm typing this on a new laptop
remembering my first.
It was mostly the same.
Just a decade after the Rolodex was killed,
but already two from today.

In another another three
my kid will say the same.
Just a decade after the Rolodex was killed,
but already five from today.

Chips get faster,
apps get slower.
Nothing changes,
but I think it used to be fun.
