First TV (one in B / N 14 ") arrived home shortly before Franco's death (maybe in '74), and although my brother once had a Spectrum (if I remember correctly), I I contacted a computer until the early '90s. About 15 years ago I bought my first answering machine: was in love and wanted to get rid of dependence on the telephone. The answering machine let me know that this person had called, and hearing his voice, without having to give up going to the movies or out with friends when he was traveling the world. It felt like liberating, but I must admit that every night when I got home, the first thing I did was listen to messages.
I bought my first computer (a contraption used) a little later, arriving at Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhen I started work writing material for collections kiosk. Cost 100,000 pesetas me then, but I'm a perfectionist and constantly repeating the pages, even in an electronic machine, infuriated me. When it became clear he was going to make a living with it, I bought a new, modest but better, I already had internet connection.
Meanwhile, the people around me had been buying phones. My first phone was a device (large and those that had an antenna that had to display) was old and obsolete (like my first computer) when I received it, my mother gave me when he bought a more modern, and that not so long ago. It was almost an anachronism, but to me, fulfill their service (basically a telephone access in difficult circumstances, or locate the other when the appointment is in the street and there have been an oversight or a delay).
Meanwhile, it was time to change your computer (age so fast!).
The doctor advised me to buy one that allowed me to work with his elbows on the table (for the kinds of tendonitis), and thought about buying a stationary flat screen to fit it to the bottom the desktop. At the end I opted for a laptop that allowed me to mount it, occupying less and could take with me when traveling (this just two years ago.)
Around the same time I changed my phone for a more modern (which has already become old, but I do not care) with a lot of features that have never used. Now when I go out worries me forget the phone (though not usually come back for it if that happens) and when I travel, I always carry extra weight: the computer. And wherever you are looking for time to connect, I check mail from Outlook, then of Gmail, then visit the pages of my friends, and now mine, to see what's new ... and I am appalled to think that the computer may have a fault that prevents me accceder all these things. I feel dumb and blind.
Nevertheless, I try to keep a distance, I had a short chat semiadicción, but found that they lie a lot and people end up being less interesting than it promises. I prefer the reverse of the usual option, do it with people I know and at that point is beyond me, because I refuse to allow a screen to replace the pleasure of playing, or simply feel closer to the people I love. Although I am glad that there is a means to facilitate contact when away (from Barcelona, \u200b\u200bsometimes I miss a lot). Moreover, since I have computer, I write a lot more with my friends, only instead of using envelopes and stamps, sent letters by mail.
If I call the phone while I accompanied the conversation try to be brief, because I think a lack of education have others waiting for you to crash, and still gives me some embarrassment answer the phone when I'm surrounded of people, or on public transport, situations in which everyone knows what you mean.
But if I go out to dinner and then want to stay with others for a drink, the phone allows me to finalize the appointment, and if I receive a call from someone I care about, hearing his voice gives me great pleasure ...
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