How Old is the Older Days (I)

How Old is the Older Days (I)

Do you remember the days when you use to queue at the post office just to receive letters or send letters to loved ones, when the town messengers use to go round sharing information? Thanks to the technological world, we can do all these just at a click of a button. Isn't that interesting?

Can you imagine where we would be without text messaging? The feature has grown from being favoured by the tech-savvy to a universal staple. It's allowed us to be more efficient, independent and direct. When you're running late, you text someone to let them know. When you're in class or a meeting and there's an emergency, you know immediately. When you need a quick "yes" or "no," you ask via text.

SMS was an accidental success that took nearly everyone in the mobile industry by surprise. Few people predicted that this hard of use service would take off. There was hardly any promotion for or mention of SMS by network operators until after SMS started to be a success. SMS advertising went from showing business people in suits entering text messages to bright pink and yellow advertisements aimed at the youth markets that adopted SMS.

SMS was the triumph of the consumer - every generation needs a technology that it can adopt as its own to communicate with - and the text generation took up SMS. Paradoxically, it was because SMS was so very difficult to use that the young people said that they were going to overcome the man machine interface and other issues and use the service anyway. The fact that the entry barriers to learning the service were so high were an advantage because it meant that parents and teachers and other adult authority figures were unlikely, unable and unwilling to use the service.

A whole new alphabet emerged because SMS messages took a long time to enter and were quite abrupt as people attempted to say as much as possible with as few keystrokes. Abbreviations such as 'C U L8er' for 'See you later' and 'Gud nyt' for 'Good Night' sprung up for time saving and coolness. The use of smiley to reduce the abruptness of the medium and to help indicate the mood of the person in a way that was difficult with just text became popular. The introduction of prepay mobile tariffs in which people could pay for their airtime in advance and thereby control their mobile phone expenditure was the catalyst that accelerated the take up of SMS. This shows how technology is growing faster and faster, day in and day out and that is why you need to catch up and meet the technological world.

Have you also realized the great change in Television set? Gone were the days when we use to carry our  seats to the cinema to watch movies and other TV programs. Do you remember the first ever TV which I term as the "Black and White" TV, because it had it visuals been displayed not in colored. I mean the TV in which you have to turn it on or over from a channel to another with  pliers. That's sounds funny but amazing, I have really missed those days. 

From that type of  television, there was the introduction of a new set with new features, developed base on the first one. I call it the "Hunch Back" TV. This type also had it visuals in colored and due to that, it stayed in the system for quite a couple of years and still reigning.  A mass number of the worlds' population showed a great interest in it. Apart from this, there has been several others like the Flat TV  and finally, it is a curved TV which allows users to browse the internet and do other stuffs..... Wow!

What will the next one be or how will the next one look like. Stay tuned on Ishmael's Desk for the phase (II).