RYAN DENNIS

In 2011, Pope John Paul II was beatified, Fidel Castro resigned, and Charlie Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men. More importantly, The Milk House first appeared in Progressive Dairy.

A symptom of breaking down and finally buying a functionable smartphone is getting deluged with memes from friends.

I remember the first time I heard about Facebook. A girl in my college class told me it was “kind of neat” and I should check it out.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the typical North American Christmas dinner originates from the United Kingdom.

I was in elementary school when I first heard reports about this new technology called the internet. Having grown up with it as it evolved, it was up to me to tell my grandmother that Nigerian princes weren’t going to send her money or let my father know that no one from Scotland was going to put a down payment for the truck he was selling on Craigslist in upstate New York.

“It’s all the rage,” my father said. “Everyone is doing it.”

I was a bit skeptical.