I’m sitting in a Panera cafe, mooching off their free wifi, and at the next table is a mother explaining how punchcards used to run computers. Her pre-tween daughter is all saucer-eyed, and she thinks that punchcards sound “really cool!”

But it made me think about how people used to say - when talking about the progress of computer technology - “I remember when floppy disks really were floppy!”

And now it’s just “I remember floppy disks!”

Remember zip drives? I had a zip drive. I wonder where it got to…