Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    We used pagers to tell people to call us back on payphones, possibly using collect call service. Music was listened to on Sony Walkmans, maybe a boombox if you wanted to be obnoxious about it. Newspapers were sold at every street corner to provide reading material.

    I wouldn’t say it was so different before smartphones. Everyone on the train was browsing the news using the copy of the local paper instead of a cell-phone connected to some news network.

      • gifflen@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m glad I’m not the only one with this burned permanently into my memory.

        • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          i sometimes quote some of my favorites to the young generation and they look at me like im insane. 10-10-220, only a buck for the first 5 minutes and just a quarter after that for any long distance phone call!