When Bill Clinton Was President, Laptops Were Basically Unrecognizable

by Brenna Ehrlich 16 mins ago

While people around the country are already in line for the latest in Apple product shininess, former U.S. President Bill Clinton shared a photo this Throwback Thursday (September 18) reminding us that computers didn’t always fit in our pockets. Oh! And that they weren’t always oh-so sleek ‘n’ lovely.

“I sent my first (ever!) email to John Glenn… while he was in space with @NASA. #TBT,” Clinton wrote on Twitter, thereby shaming all of us whose first email was sent to our first-grade penpal in Greenland (not naming names here).

A former U.S. Senator and astronaut, Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962 and later traveled on the space shuttle Discovery in 1998. We’re guessing that Clinton shot off that email on Glenn’s second trip, on which the then-77-year-old planned to serve as a guinea pig for geriatric studies.

Something something joke about geriatric studies and that ancient laptop. Something something.

Brenna Ehrlich

Brenna Ehrlich is a reporter for MTV News as well as the senior writer/editor for the O Music Awards. In the past, she served as associate editor at Mashable, penned a netiquette column for CNN and co-authored the blog and book “Stuff Hipsters Hate.” She likes trying not to die in moshpits and listening to songs on repeat. Follow her on Twitter @BrennaEhrlich for news on cats and punk bands.