52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History is an annual challenge for family historians to write about their own lives. Amy Coffin is the author.
Since I came to this idea well after the first of the year, I'll start with the current week. Week 8 poses two questions to start the writing process: What are some of the technological advances that happened during your childhood? What types of technology do you enjoy using today, and which do you avoid?
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My love affair with technology began with an old party-line telephone. A party line was made up of the telephones in many homes that were all served by that single line. Everyone could connect to that line simply by picking up the telephone.
Living in a rural area of Pennsylvania, my family stayed in touch with the world through that party line phone. Privacy wasn't its strong suit because each time you picked up the phone you might find yourself