Taking a Pepys at the iPhone
Thanks to Richard for sharing this extract from Pepys’ diary round the office this morning, reminding us that there’s not much difference between, say, the iPhone owner of today and the fob watch owner of yesteryear.
Saturday 13 May 1665
“But, Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o’clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I lived.”
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