Many people provided their thoughts.
Here’s what they said below.
“Smoking in hospitals and on airplanes.”
“Anytime you answered a phone, you had no idea who was calling you.
Not knowing one single person’s phone number except my vet’s office of 30 years.
For some reason, it is the only number I still remember.
Not including Jenny’s number, of course.”
u/gametime-2001
3.
“How utterly unsupervised we were as tiny children.
It seemed like they were gone for a while, but I’m not sure now.
u/alwayssoupy
5.
“The Yellow Pages.”
“Just not knowing.
Where is the closest veterinarian?
What does it mean when my car makes a beeping sound?
What year did the Hundred Years War end?
What should you do if you break a toe?
u/FaberGrad
“And your family or friends could come right to the gate with you.”
u/porchpossum1
8.
“Always carrying dimes, later quarters, when on a date, in case things went sideways.”
“The sounds younger people will never know of listening to your modem connect to the internet.
u/sittinginthesunshine
10.
Milk, eggs, cheese, and other dairy-adjacent items are delivered to the house weekly.
And the milk and OJ were in the glass, returnable bottles.”
“Vehicle gas cap located behind thelicense plate.”
u/bdbdbokbuck
12.
“Photos were expensive, rare, and it took time to even see how they turned out.
It costed extra to expedite.”
“Calling the movie theater to see what was playing and what the showtimes were.”
u/Appropriate_Canary26
“And it took soooooooo loooooong.”
u/mahjimoh
14.
“The Dewey Decimal System was the only way to find a book.”
“Running to my mailbox hoping to get a letter from my girlfriend away at college.
Or finally getting that cool thing I mail ordered eight weeks ago.”
u/Airplade
16.
“Rushing to the bank on Friday to cash my paycheck.”
u/typhoidmarry
“Yes, having to get money from a teller.
Get money on Fri, or else you are screwed for the weekend.”
