After getting Dale a new printer for his birthday and found it set up really easy, I got to thinking about all the past tech things we've used over the years. We were fairly early adapters to computers and the internet. We got a Windows computer back in the early 90's when he was at The Lutheran Hour. That was an amazing piece of equipment, at least to me. Before that computers used a DOS system with a black empty screen and a c prompt. I had no idea how that worked, but Windows opened up a new world to me. It also came with AOL, a place for email and games and message boards, ease of immediate communication.
I was hooked. The problem came as years went by that technology zoomed faster than we could keep up and we tended to lose things. The new made the old obsolete. One example of this came to me this morning as I put Dale's Meyer Minute up onto his email list server, his blog and Facebook. He's been writing his Minute since sometime in the mid to late 90's. At some point in time I started putting them on floppy discs, the old hard cased 3 by 5 discs. Every computer had a slot for them.
But, as technology goes, the floppy discs and a way to use them, went away. Dale may have those years of minutes somewhere on a paper copy, but we aren't sure. I decided in 2011 it was time to put each day's Minute on a blog and so created a blog for him just for that. At least websites haven't gone away yet. We know we can find his for the past 9 years for now.
Here is the link to his blog which is entirely made up of his daily Meyer Minutes. Look at the archives section and you'll find them month by month by year. I'm so glad we did this. For now.
As an added tech note, while going through a closet yesterday I came across a whole bunch of dvd movies. Problem is we no longer have a dvd player and our computers, while having a dvd/dc drive, are now more advanced and these no longer play. They're good movies, it's too bad we can't watch them anymore.