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(bonus pictures of my cats cuz just look at how adorable these girlies are)

Hi! Sorry for a late reply, but congrats on the move and whee, always happy to see fur babies. I also have a new fur baby, came to me by complete accident last Tuesday and now he's all I can think about:

To badly paraphrase Douglas Adams: Anything invented before you are 35 is awesome, but anything that comes around after that is scary. It's the natural order of things.

There wasn't one general moral panic over the fork so much as a 600-year slow burn of derision. In the modern era, every country that the fork was introduced to was totally freaked out by it, before eventually accepting it.

For our younger readers, here is a bit of a history lesson:

Phones used to be plugged into the wall. These days you might know a few people who still have these antiques and call them "landlines."