Tuesday, January 01, 2008

The Wonder Of The Internets

So I'm talking to an 85-year-old woman at a party. She doesn't really use a computer, or know her way around them, she says. A bit later she mentions she was in show biz and her former husband, Arthur Tracy, was a famous singer many years ago.

To show her the power of this newfangled gizmo, I use a nearby laptop (it wasn't my computer, or my house for that matter) and in seconds show her this, which she hadn't seen in years.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is really cool. What was her reaction and was she (herself) in any of the footage?

--a curious romantic

8:04 AM, January 01, 2008  
Blogger LAGuy said...

She was amazed and asked me to look up other stuff, including her father, who was a famous bandleader.

She wasn't in any of the footage, but we were able to look up her name in regard to a couple things.

9:29 AM, January 01, 2008  

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