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What did people use before cell phones?
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:03 am
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:03 am
I lived in the age of technology.
75
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:04 am to tuptiger
They talked...face to face.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:05 am to tuptiger
Pagers
Letters
Ravens
Letters
Ravens
This post was edited on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:05 am to tuptiger
Loud drums and smoke signals
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:05 am to tuptiger
their brains
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
Pay phones or regular phones. You haven’t lived till you use a pay phone. Nothing like picking up a greasy pay phone at some random gas station in the hood to call your office.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
Smoke signaling was a thing, the Telegraph changed the game
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
You'd find a payphone to call mom to pick you up at the Fun Fair Park, or have an arranged pick-up time and you stuck to it.
You rode your bike over to your friend's house and talked to them.
You wrote letters.
You rode your bike over to your friend's house and talked to them.
You wrote letters.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
Pay phones. It sucked when they went from a quarter to 35 cents
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
Land lines and answering machines.
Set a time and place to meet and then go from there.
Set a time and place to meet and then go from there.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
messenger pigeons
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:06 am to tuptiger
If there was a medical or police emergency, we used to send a letter to PO Box 911 in our town.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:07 am to tuptiger
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:07 am to tuptiger
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:08 am to tuptiger
Hanging out in parking lots
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:09 am to BobABooey
Anyone remember having these in their vehicles?
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:09 am to tuptiger
If you needed to meet up with someone you made plans, face to face, beforehand. If someone was not at home or work you just couldn't reach them. If you knew what store they were at and you had an emergency you called the store and they would page the person on loudspeaker.
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:09 am to tuptiger
Payphones, you could put a quarter in and talk for 38 minutes. Or if you were a hacker, you could put in a special code and talk forever (my friend's older brother has a friend who knows the code, he's supposed to tell us what it is when he gets back from England next summer).
Posted on 10/14/19 at 9:09 am to HenryParsons
Street navigation is the best thing about phones and gps.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA.
I can remember being in an unfamiliar town having to buy a street map at a gas station and making calls from a pay phone for directions.
If you were from out of town it was a PITA.
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