[Disfrutalavida]

That's funny since I started sophomore year of high school on the 1130.
I vaguely remember Fortran IV, which always made me think of a planet name in Star Trek, since I wrote in IITran which was required where I went to school, but I do remember using three valued IF statements.

Where I live in Mexico Spanish is not really spoken as the average schooling is about 6th grade, and about a third of the words are from the Huichol or other indigenous groups.
Very, very idiomatic. Some of my Mexican friends from other parts of Mexico have a hard time understanding the older locals.
I understand the analogy you're using and agree.
This is the eighth country I have lived in and the language influences the culture, and vice versa, more than most people would believe.

I like my gadgets, BUT I could live without all of them.
In fact after I retired I bought an RV and traveled for 4 years, only using my PC to store the photos I took with my digital camera, and to decrypt Direct TV.
Hmmmmm, looks like I had gadgets after all. ;-}

I guess I have always lived in the tech future but with the values of the past and I like it that way just fine.

But some days, sometimes a week or 2 at a time, I like to just turn off the phones, lay in the hammock and read a book, nap or cuddle with my favorite person.
All I/we can hear is the bees, hummingbirds and the wind, and that suits me/us fine.