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lancashirelady50 · 70-79, F
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
Actually, it was okay. In 1911 a call in audience show involving up to a million New Yorkers took place.
In 1993, live call in talk radio involving thousands and live call in TV involving millions took place in Chicago, every day.
The population is to say that you are better connected because fascists control what you say and you glory in the resulting ecocide and wars. Be honest.
In 1993, live call in talk radio involving thousands and live call in TV involving millions took place in Chicago, every day.
The population is to say that you are better connected because fascists control what you say and you glory in the resulting ecocide and wars. Be honest.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Mountainlady16 Indeed!
They carried a slide-rule and a book of log. and trig. tables instead! I can still use them, too.
(My school issued small, simple slide-rules only about six inches long, before compact electronic calculators started to appear.)
They carried a slide-rule and a book of log. and trig. tables instead! I can still use them, too.
(My school issued small, simple slide-rules only about six inches long, before compact electronic calculators started to appear.)
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MissBrittany · F
Jungleman · M
just fine without them, smartphones have made life more complicated and induce anxiety with those with nervous problems.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Jungleman
and induce anxiety with those with nervous problems.
And enrich the lives of many of the rest.
PeachyK · 100+, F
We had peace and quiet. Our phones didn’t follow us everywhere we went. We were more present.
billstickers · 36-40, M
The world it that a new thing from Apple i must check it out.
And the internet, and air conditioning
kalpanapatel149 · 36-40, F
Hand written letters !!
Subalugirl · 22-25, F
🤔...............☎️ ??? 🤷♀️
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Didn't you have books and newspapers?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@calicuz Portable telephones have been available for longer than the so-called "smart" versions though. The first were nearly as big as a brick but the first pocket-sized ones, of general styles still common, were introduced in the 1980s I think.
I think the general point is that each time something new is developed, many go for it then ask "how did we manage without". Often, quite well. We might not want to revert but people did manage.
However it also leads to a peculiar "because we can" attitude by which the very-latest is used simply because it is the very latest even when for the particular situation, it may not be the simplest or most efficient way.
After all, does it really matter that a letter takes 2 days to arrive when the supposed immediacy of a text-message merely by its electronics may not reflect the recipient's delay in reading it and replying? In many cases, no.
I think the general point is that each time something new is developed, many go for it then ask "how did we manage without". Often, quite well. We might not want to revert but people did manage.
However it also leads to a peculiar "because we can" attitude by which the very-latest is used simply because it is the very latest even when for the particular situation, it may not be the simplest or most efficient way.
After all, does it really matter that a letter takes 2 days to arrive when the supposed immediacy of a text-message merely by its electronics may not reflect the recipient's delay in reading it and replying? In many cases, no.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Quite easily, actually. We just got on with whatever we needed to do, in the ways available.
The one thing I do regret about the development of so-called "smart"-'phones (apart from that silly name) is their encouraging of very unsociable behaviour. It is almost as if many of their owners have forgotten how, and more importantly when, to switch the wretched distractions off.
My portable 'phone, which is not "smart", spends far more time OFF than ON.
The one thing I do regret about the development of so-called "smart"-'phones (apart from that silly name) is their encouraging of very unsociable behaviour. It is almost as if many of their owners have forgotten how, and more importantly when, to switch the wretched distractions off.
My portable 'phone, which is not "smart", spends far more time OFF than ON.
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MissBrittany · F
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@MissBrittany Good point.
The "smart"-'phone as we have now, with its access to the Internet, rather than primarily just a radio-telephone, is really quite recent, though I don't know when it was developed.
I think your comment applies to one or two respondents as well, who seem to have mis-read a question about "smart-phones", not portable telephones generally, nor the Internet.
The "smart"-'phone as we have now, with its access to the Internet, rather than primarily just a radio-telephone, is really quite recent, though I don't know when it was developed.
I think your comment applies to one or two respondents as well, who seem to have mis-read a question about "smart-phones", not portable telephones generally, nor the Internet.
69TommyDe · 26-30, M
Before the invention of smartphones people had landlines. Plus if you were out and you had to call your house you had to hunt for a payphone.
SW-User
We bought newspapers, had encyclopedias in the book shelf and played music on a record player.
Chevy454 · 46-50, M
Dewey Decimal system!!!
Chevy454 · 46-50, M
Yup!!👍👍@SW-User
JSmith75 · 46-50, M
Yes I can't remember the last time I mailed a letter
Doomflower · 36-40, M
Phones of retarded dials
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Doomflower Pardon? :-)
Effloresce · 26-30, F
I read a lot more
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DDonde · 31-35, M
I've only had one for like, two years lol.