This is not on lasers at all but rather the group of helpful guys on this forum.
With modern technology which we probably take for granted. Here am I in New Zealand "down-under" right next door to Australia ( a polite and convenient distance away) and yet I can put up a request for help and answers flow from all corners of the world. UK, USA,Australia,China, Norway, Switzerland and so on...... fantastic.
One of the neat pleasures I get when I have my 'morning logon session' is to look at who's on line. When its morning here of course its night in the UK.
The USA is kinda halfway house at that time.
This means that you see some guys burning the 'midnight oil', some at work (or are supposed to be), and some at home after dinner.
Boy, once upon a time the best you could do was a fax and that was real modern then. Used to be pen, paper and stamp wait six weeks if you were lucky, prior to that.
I wonder where our hobby would be in those days before communal hi tech' sharing like now.
I used to look at the paper going into the fax machine and being mesmerised by the fact that it was coming out of a machine in the USA to book my holiday.
They say its not good to get older (I'm mid fifties) but I disagree, think of whats happened in my lifetime and the technologies I have worked with ( yep, even valves, should have kept some of those suckers, worth some money now) in my career as an electronics guy.
Some of this stuff, which younger ones take for granted, is little short of a miracle which of course makes our forum possible..
Now thats nothing to do with lasers.. er sorry just waffling on.
Cheers to all around the globe wherever you are.
Ray .. from the bottom of the world.
New Zealand