I was doing my regular reading of the bad astronomy blog when i came across a rather obscure post.
When i first heard of the internet, I was probably about 7-10 years old and i think in those days was still playing games on a 48k spectrum or something like that. Anyway, back then it would never have occurred to me the wonders of the computer age.
Consider the fact that I’m able to communicate this message to you (whoever you may be) without having to be in the same room, house, city or even the same country.
Now that idea on it’s own occasionally strikes me as being rather absurd. But consider this: I have just sat (and not for the first time i might add) watching a live web-cam feed of somebody’s pilot light. (click to see live video feed! I’m not sure how to embed things)
I had never even heard of this person previously and yet i was able to sit there (joined by 93 other people) watching a small blue flame half way around the world. Perhaps even more absurd is the fact that I’m sat here now not only watching more live video feed of the same thing, but also writing a blog post about it.
Yesterday, I never even imagined that such an odd thing could possibly be happening and yet here I am. Who knows what new and unusual thing i may stumble upon tomorrow?
