How did you ever look things up? How did you call or text people when you weren't home?
How did you ever look things up? How did you call or text people when you weren't home?
I can't tell if youre serious or being a troll. but we simply called people on their home landlines and if they didn't answer, we left a message. before there was texting, there was paging. to look things up, you went to the library, yes manual labor.
Answering machines.
Pay phones.
Didn't look up random stuff.
Used the phone book to find businsss numbers.
Alan
I was born before the transistor was invented.
Books at the library
-block letters in pencil on a post card
Born in 2000 wrote:
How did you ever look things up?
Go to the library for info, newspapers, tv, radio for news
Born in 2000 wrote:
How did you call or text people when you weren't home?
You used a phone booth.
A set of encyclopedias with topics from A-Z on our bookshelf. I don't know people got around before MapQuest and Google Maps, though.
We had maps. Like on paper
HardLoper wrote:
A set of encyclopedias with topics from A-Z on our bookshelf. I don't know people got around before MapQuest and Google Maps, though.
AAA TripTiks
http://pearlsoftravelwisdom.boardingarea.com/2014/01/remember-triptix/Your senses decline when not in demand. These days I might feel paralyzed on a trip without GPS. Meanwhile, prior to GPS I visited all 50 states and several driving trips throughout Europe and it never dawned on me that I was having trouble finding things and needed artificial help.
Likewise regarding looking things up. Jeopardy didn't have trouble finding contestants or asking obscure questions prior to the internet. That in itself should tell you that people found a way, just like the Jurassic Park truism that life will find a way.
I have a sister who is considerably younger than me so her four kids were all born post-2000. They are great kids but button addicted and sadly only one of them has any interest in outdoor activities or figuring things out on her own. The others offer a perplexed expression and then push buttons to find the answer, even if it's mostly words to them, and not anything they'll absorb or remember.
HardLoper wrote:
A set of encyclopedias with topics from A-Z on our bookshelf. I don't know people got around before MapQuest and Google Maps, though.
Encyclopedias and a good World Atlas covers a lot, more recent history and trivia was the big gap and so you needed a library with microfiche and back issues on periodicals for that. I used to be at sea for 6 months and most stupid debates with ship mates were solved in about 5 minutes with a good encyclopedia.
Life was so much better before everyone had phones. Don't check in with someone for a full day? No big deal. Freedom. I hate my digital shackles and the need to be constantly in contact.
Besides which, pay phones were fun. I used to carry a little device that made some tones that tricked the phone into thinking I'd dropped in quarters... good times.
Ummm . . . ever heard of stone tablets? Charcoal? Smoke signals?
Pay phones, answering machines, a phone in every home and office, planning, maps, knowledge, patience, and ingenuity. We wasted a lot less time making arrangements.
That's right. There was also this emergency service called asking people.
When I was a kid, we'd walk to each other's house and knock on the door.
And we had encyclopedias at home.
But we could argue over facts for years on things like sports trivia.
And finding a nudy mag was amazing.
Born in 2000 wrote:
How did you ever look things up? How did you call or text people when you weren't home?
Go to google and look up "American Inventors"
If those are the results that google has decided for you to see, then imagine what else they've cooked up? Can you really trust who you use to look things up anymore?
Star wrote:
When I was a kid, we'd walk to each other's house and knock on the door.
And we had encyclopedias at home.
But we could argue over facts for years on things like sports trivia.
And finding a nudy mag was amazing.
This. I was born in 95 and this all stands true. How are people only five years younger than me so out of touch about what life without a screen is like? Unless this is a troll thread.
You can easily live without things you never lived with, it wasn't that hard
Born in 2000 wrote:
How did you call or text people when you weren't home?
You didn't and it was awesome. Not recieving calls or texts yourself was actually the best part but mot having to send em either was pretty sweet too. Having a gf that didnt include a never ending text convo was also so much better. I miss the days when if you went out they just had to suck it up and wait till you're home.
look it up wrote:
Go to google and look up "American Inventors"
If those are the results that google has decided for you to see, then imagine what else they've cooked up? Can you really trust who you use to look things up anymore?
You're kidding, right? I thought everyone knew how Google displays results (hint: it has nothing to do with being politically correct).
I'm sorry, you were probably just kidding with your post, right?
Right?
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