Quote from: Pica Pica on February 19, 2009, 04:41:06 PM
pigeons...

i want to live in the 1660s - cept for the crime and disease.

i think you did.

Quote from: Nicky on February 19, 2009, 04:26:27 PM
Can you make a wooden internet?

People actually poured out thoughts and feelings in snail mail (really slow snail mail to your locale) and books printed with movable type on paper made from wood or recycled rags. They could write even during ice storms.

S

i think letter writin is a sad thing to wither.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 19, 2009, 04:52:45 PM
i think letter writin is a sad thing to wither.

I agree. Email just isn't the same.

Quote from: Simone Louise on February 19, 2009, 04:47:27 PM
People actually poured out thoughts and feelings in snail mail (really slow snail mail to your locale) and books printed with movable type on paper made from wood or recycled rags. They could write even during ice storms.
S

So thats like you type stuff and it prints out at the other end? 

Quote from: Rebis on February 19, 2009, 03:35:01 PM
I hate you kids with your Ipods, and your multimedias, and your fancy new candies that cost more than a penny, and your inability to walk a mile, and your PT Cruisers, and your adulation of Tom Cruise, and your laws protecting you from physical violence from an adult, and...

And while you're at it, get off Rebis' lawn! 

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Quote from: Nicky on February 19, 2009, 05:08:38 PM
So thats like you type stuff and it prints out at the other end? 

or you can even write with a pen on paper... no typewriter required 

Z

peeen...p..paaappeerr? 

I rather enjoy writing letters, but I'm always afraid that my friends won't know what to make of them.  I did write one not long ago, though.  My friend was quite happy to receive an actual letter. 

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 19, 2009, 04:41:06 PM
i want to live in the 1660s - cept for the crime and disease.

Oh let me be a Romantic in the 19th Century!  ...Actually, if I were a romantic, I'd probably be close to death (or already dead) since I'm in my late 20s, so nevermind (we've been studying Keats... ).  Maybe I'll just don some of the fantastic clothing and pretend...

Quote from: Nicky on February 19, 2009, 05:45:15 PM
peeen...p..paaappeerr? 

Yes, all of us dinosaur androgynes used these back in the day  We'd be happy to send you pen and paper and teach you how to use them

Not only that, but we didn't use emoticons or LOL and other shorthand either 

Z

Quote from: Zythyra on February 19, 2009, 08:51:40 PM
Yes, all of us dinosaur androgynes used these back in the day  We'd be happy to teach you how Not only that, but we didn't use emoticons or LOL and other shorthand either 

Z

...but...without emoticons...how do you show how you're feeling? 

Quote from: Jeatyn on February 19, 2009, 08:53:43 PM
...but...without emoticons...how do you show how you're feeling? 

tee hee, it ain't easy   

Z

My penpersonship was never that good anyways 

I have a friend in australia that I occasionaly write. Her letters are so much cooler than mine, she always does some art work on the letter.

But i've got this cool wax seal with a N on it. Now that's class!

Good letters don't depend on the medium, they depend on the writer and how much time they care to spend on it.

Correspondence is such a 19th century notion (really, the people from about 1840s - 1920s wrote the most amazing letters back and forth), post WWII the widespread electronic media really put a dent in people writing letter, so the 60s and 70s were very low periods.  I think in a lot of ways the net and email has brought a lot of that back, and people have long conversations in a correspondence sense once again.

Yeah.  Those civil war era people wrote incredibly effective letters.  A lot of the WWII guys still had it too.

Greg Giraldo does a bit on letter writing. 



It starts around 5:50.