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Barksdale Maynard ’88 is the author of Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency and a book on the history of Princeton’s architecture, coming in 2012.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. It’s very easy to get distracted, and all of a sudden you have an exam tomorrow.” “But now you can go to the Internet and watch YouTube videos. “In the past, when your friends were all studying, I guess you would go study, too,” she muses. Shows worth following can be seen online. MOLLY ’14: She doesn’t own a television and rarely watches the networks. Finally, sheer boredom drove them to their textbooks. Students pleaded in vain for cable television. Miami Vice, Letterman, Monday Night Football - that was all he wanted to see. “Reception was pretty snowy” behind thick Gothic dormitory walls, he remembers, and there were only three reliable channels. Manufactured in the Nixon era, Tom’s color Zenith (shown in room, opposite page) featured a handle in spite of being almost too heavy to lift.
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TOM ’86: In antediluvian days, “screen media” were confined to the TV set and the local movie theater. When entertainment meant the boob tube – static and all
Today she doesn’t know of a single dorm room with a landline, and the manager of the campus phone network says the service eventually may be discontinued. She remembers calling friends on their “home phones” as a little girl and having to memorize telephone numbers.
Molly uses her LG enV phone to talk four hours a week, but its real value is for ceaseless texting - up to 50 messages a day. MOLLY ’14: When cell phones first swept campus in the late 1990s, some observers derided their loudly chatting users, seemingly as self-important as Wall Street traders. “There was always substantial confusion among roommates as to who called whom, and who had or had not paid the phone bill,” Tom remembers. Undergraduates were notoriously difficult to reach in those days, their phones usually going unanswered or giving a busy signal. Tom used his phone only rarely - perhaps five calls per week, to his parents and Victor’s Pizzeria on Nassau Street. Having a touch-tone device cost an extra dollar each month.
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TOM ’86: Up to two weeks into every new school year, New Jersey Bell technicians barged into dorm rooms to install rotary telephones. When telephones had cords, and “text” was never, ever a verb
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