Stuff In A Cardboard Box

In the beginning was the pencil, and the pencil begat The Stuff. And The Pencil climbed out out of the primeval ooze and evolved into the typewriter. Evolution proceeded apace, and one day The Computer was invented, and lo, we had 5″ floppy discs and Wordstar and other incredibly modern and spiffy things.

Some time later, being rather wiser in the ways of electronic obsolescence, I entrusted The Stuff to the care of an imaginary network of invisible machines, rather as one sticks a message in a bottle and throws it into the briney.

After a while, the imaginary network settled down a bit, so I decided to tidy up all The Stuff and keep it in one place. I used to use a cardboard box for this purpose. Isn’t the future marvellous? It’s everything I was hoping it would be, really!