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A Story From Normandy to Las Vegas Nearly 1,000 Years in the Making In 1066, a Norman knight named Arnold Travers crossed the English...

Before the internet, before smartphones, before a signal determined your mood — life ran on slower rhythms, rotary phones, and real people. If you’ve ever muttered about dropped Wi-Fi or screamed at a buffering video, here’s a reminder: we used to function — quite well — without any of it.

Yesterday started like any other productive day. I was up at 6 a.m., ready to get moving. But when I opened my laptop and saw nothing but that dreaded spinning wheel, I knew something was wrong.

Remembering My First Computer — the Apple II Back in 1977, I bought one of the first Apple II computers. It had a glowing green screen, a...