The World As We Know It

As most, or all of you know, I create the Joliet Remembers webpages. I am now in the process of gathering material for the 1980's pages. As I looked through the microfilm of the Joliet Herald-News for December, 1989, I was somewhat surprised to see ads for: personal computers, notebook computers, computer mice, cell phones, cordless phones, video cassette recorders, and camcorders, compact disc players, and fax machines. In other words, versions of most of the technological devices we take for granted today.