ciroccoj | Feeling old

So the other day Justin is trying to make a timeline of important events in the history of our concept of "what is history". I'm thinking a pretty important event is the invention of the printing press, because all of a sudden a lot more stuff could be written down for posterity and stick around for a while, instead of perishing within a century because there was only one copy of whatever historical thing someone had wanted to preserve for posterity and somebody else used it to line a ~~parrot~~ dove cage with.

I'm trying to lead Justin to this idea. It... doesn't go quite as planned.

Me: OK, where do you learn history from?
Justin: From you!
Me: Right. But from where else?
Justin: Books?
Me: Right! And how do those books get written?
Justin: I know! I should look up the invention of the typewriter!
Chris: No, that's too modern.
Justin: I'm not talking about this ::he points at our keyboard:: I’m talking about the old ones, that... you know...
Chris: That didn’t have monitors?
Justin: Yeah! Those ones! Old stuff!
Me: ::cracking up:: Typewriters! Old stuff! Like the dial phone!
Chris: The dial phone! I remember those! The ones where when you forgot something, you had to dial to call your friend and ask, When is our typing class again?
Me: And you had to hope they were home, ‘cause there weren’t any answering machines--
Justin: What?!
Chris: And then if you were late for class, you had to get on your dinosaur and ride it all the way to school!!
Me: Saying Giddy-up, boy, giddy-up!!