![]() ![]() These were machines with tapes in them that a caller could record a message onto, but they were hardly foolproof. By the 80s and into the 90s, we had answering machines. ![]() In the early to mid 70s, if you weren’t home, it would just ring and ring. No call waiting, no voicemail, just a busy signal. When someone was on the phone, another person trying to reach you got a busy signal. If you were waiting for a boy to call you, there was a very good chance that someone else in your family would be on the phone, because somehow, they always were. I kind of miss this one since a lot of these flyers were very creative:įlyers also applied to shows in venues trying to make money:īefore pagers even, most people had one phone number and that phone number was for every member of your household from your mom and dad to your bratty little sister. When you were having a party, you had to make physical flyers on paper, which you photocopied and handed out to people in person. There was no such thing as Evite or a Facebook event. The front had all the usual flyer type stuff, but the back was made up pretty much exclusively of directions:Īnd speaking of flyers, we made flyers. For example, here’s the back of a flyer for a friend’s party. “Come on over,” usually involved writing convoluted directions with landmarks on the back of an envelope. ![]() We had to stop at gas stations and ask for directions and use pay phones. How did we get anywhere without Google Maps and GPS? The answer is, not very easily. This one actually baffles me and I lived through it. I wrote it so that you can laugh at us and also realize how lucky you are to have a tiny computer in your pocket. This is a list of things we had to do before we had tiny computers in our pockets. Someday, there will be a “back in my day,” just you wait. Yeah, you young ones are thinking I’m old now, but imagine how archaic “carrying tiny computers in our pockets” will sound in a few decades when you have one implanted in your brainpan. Remember those? It was a small brick you carried around and when someone called the number, they could punch in other numbers that magically appeared on your tiny screen, so that you could call them back: Old school, baby.īelieve it or not, not even too terribly long ago, we didn’t carry tiny computers around in our pockets. I was born long before PCs, cell phones and GPS. ![]()
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