The language of technology: from ZX to SMS

At the time, an entire generation of males puzzled over computer magazines, painstakingly typing in vast swathes of code with the ultimate reward of loading something like space invaders, accompanied by those bizarre ZX Spectrum loading noises. The ZX Spectrum with its iconic rubber keys signalled the dawn of the home computer. It’s amazing to think that the children of the Spectrum Generation have no concept of a world before computers and the Internet. Even those who remember watching the Queen’s coronation on a small black and white television are now surfing and blogging with the be...