October 22, 1908

Dear Diary,

I have just returned from a most astounding adventure! With my faithful time machine, made from iron and powered by well-mined coal steam, I have been a hundred years into the future, on this very day, in a place called “Dallas”! And oh, what wonders I have seen! For the kind workers took me to a room and allowed me to use something called an eMachines 2.6Ghz Desktop PC.

They say it ran on something called XP Media Center Edition and had an Intel Pentium D inside. There was 1024MB of DDR2 RAM (I wrote it down specifically so that I would remember) and a 10/100 Ethernet port, as well as something called “a modem”. And best of all, they allowed me to purchase one!

They were grinning at me as I told them how excitingly advanced the eMachines 2.6Ghz Desktop PC was, but I suppose I do seem quaint, a man from a thousand years in the past. How would I react to a man from 1808, after all? Still, I could not help feeling that I was the butt of some joke, especially when the gentleman telling me that the eMachines 2.6Ghz Desktop PC was cutting edge had to excuse himself because he was laughing so hard. But it is more than I have in 1908, certainly.

I hope to visit my new friends again. Perhaps I will return in a Bunch of Centuries. Who knows where a time traveler will travel next?

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