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re: Life before smart phones

Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:28 pm to
Posted by Redbone
between St. Amant and Port Vincent
Member since Sep 2012
20738 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:28 pm to
Party lines.

Had to go inside to make/receive a call.

No air conditioning.

Ahh, us baby boomers were sooo spoiled!!! We ruint the world!
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
63518 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:30 pm to
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having to be creative and finding ways to work out differences is another thing today's generation is lacking.



So true
Posted by xxTIMMYxx
Member since Aug 2019
17562 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:32 pm to
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Actually being at a place at the time you said you would be there


Yea...meet up times at the mall.
Posted by xxTIMMYxx
Member since Aug 2019
17562 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:34 pm to
Petti, is that on a game on a TI-83?
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53816 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:35 pm to
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ETA: your parents listening in on your phone calls on the other landline, or vice versa

We used to pick up cordless phone calls on my dad's police scanner sometimes
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
20245 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:37 pm to
Having multiple hiding spots for vhs porn tapes
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:38 pm to
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We used to pick up cordless phone calls on my dad's police scanner sometimes


We did this in the early 90's and I always assumed they were cell phone calls in the early days of cell phone technology.
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
19296 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:40 pm to
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This was my go-to bathroom reading material when I was a kid...



So you were a poor eh? I'll see your World Book and raise you...



Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
62134 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:47 pm to


We couldn't even afford those. A good set of encyclopedia was like $800,000.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
62134 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:49 pm to
Can't say how much of this is fake, but check out a pair of today's 17 year olds trying to use a rotary phone.

LINK
Posted by randybobandy
NOLA
Member since Mar 2015
2195 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:53 pm to
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Life before smart phones by Bedhog


Telling your girlfriend you were going out of town to a guys weekend. Really spending the weekend with your "other" girlfriend.
Posted by Bronson2017
Birmingham
Member since Feb 2019
2215 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:56 pm to
I actually went all day yesterday without mine. Headed to my parents to watch football and forgot it at the house. Sat with my pops and watched football all day. I think I am going to make that a sunday tradition from now on, it was nice.
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
151031 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:03 pm to
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Turning 18 and being able to go buy porno mags
thank god for smart phones
This post was edited on 9/9/19 at 2:04 pm
Posted by RealityTiger
Geismar, LA
Member since Jan 2010
20543 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:32 pm to
A good thing about life back then was that you could go out and run errands or do something, and you were literally free from everyone until you got back home. There were times when you were truly unavailable and didn't have to lie that you left your phone in the other room and didn't see the call until 4 hours later.
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87738 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:54 pm to
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Petti, is that on a game on a TI-83?



I think that's what I had, although I'm betting it existed in prior/subsequent models
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
33687 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:54 pm to
Oh, I knew that shampoo bottle by heart.

It has both Sodium Laurel Sulfate and Sodium LAURETH Sulfate.
Posted by crash1211
Houma
Member since May 2008
3774 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:56 pm to
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Printing directions off Mapquest before taking a road trip.

shite how about having to look at one of those big arse road
atlas books, and have to tell someone where to look out for the exit.
Posted by crash1211
Houma
Member since May 2008
3774 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 2:59 pm to
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We couldn't even afford those. A good set of encyclopedia was like $800,000.

I was the last of three children, and ours were so old I would have to do science reports from encyclopedia's that were before we landed on the moon.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38567 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 3:12 pm to
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Were there phones in the dorm rooms or did you have to use a pay-phone?
We had one community phone in the hallway of each floor. If someone was trying to call you they had to hope that someone was nearby when it rang and that person would come get you. You could pay to have one in your room but most people didn't.
Posted by WWII Collector
Member since Oct 2018
9290 posts
Posted on 9/9/19 at 3:17 pm to


I remember before the internet... I had a life then... now I argue on message boards with young kids that know evvvverything...
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