Remember when computers were physically big and any portable device was also big and pretty rubbish and could only store addresses and memos?  Remember the time before mobile phones became mainstream?  Those days were interesting.  How did we ever organise anything?  We would have to use our landline phones to call each other and then meet at an agreed time and place and you would simply have to be there.  No bailing out at the last minute.  You would have to stick together in a crowd or risk losing each other.  The man remembers going to a theme park in the late 80s with his parents and another family with two daughters and they lost one of the girls.  The parents had given each of their girls a car key and told them that if they lost us, they should go to the car and wait there.  Worried as the parents were at their daughter’s apparent disappearance, we all went back to the car park and there was the girl, inside the car.

Nowadays kids have computers, mobile phones and so on and they use them quite intuitively.  This picture is the back of a kids’ toy; a pretend tablet.  When the man was a kid, tablets were things you took when you were sick.  Thanks for the picture, Sal!