Waterbury Spectator is an opinion blog located in Waterbury Connecticut about Waterbury and everything else besides. This grand project took me seconds to create and is a testament to what a remarkable country we live in. About a week ago I was viewing an old newspaper page found in a lost corner of a friends workshop, it was dated 1985. One of the ads was for a word processor. The machine was a screen attached to a keyboard and the memory was stored on disk. The cost was over $2000.00. a total reversal of what we are used to seeing in old newspaper ads, not in the inferiority of the product compared to today's computers but of the price. If there were an ad for, say, shoes or overcoats they would be ridiculously cheap. But here's a primitive forerunner of what I'm typing on now and its ridiculously more expensive.
Now suppose Waterbury Spectator were launched then? I would need that word processor, I suppose, a forest of trees for paper and a fleet of trucks for delivery to every home in town every day to have the same affect, well not the same actually because seconds from typing this people all over the world could read it. This is what I mean about remarkable country, we invented it all. Jtalos is a condensed version of John Talleos just in case you were wondering. I could be reached via email at jtalos98@yahoo.com.
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