they couldn’t simply text to flake out when you were already seated.
Yeah, but then they'd get stuck in traffic and you'd be sitting there increasingly uncomfortable, wondering if they stood you up, or worse, got into an accident.
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Tbf I think I'd like it more if we had online shopping, cell phones, instant messaging etc but we didn't have social media as we know it today. Like we stuck with phpbb, Usenet and IRC and didn't move much more beyond that into Myspace and Facebook
Sorry in advance for the off-topic rant but I'm still mad that Facebook killed Orkut in my country. It worked the same way, but it also had very active communities not unlike subreddits where you could talk with random strangers about common interests (not sure if Facebook has something like that now but it didn't back then so I never used it). I can't tell you how much I missed this feature after Orkut died. Only managed to fill that void when I found out about Reddit around 5 years ago. Glad I have an actual alternative to go to this time around even though Reddit still exists.
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There are a few very specific things I miss from pre-2007. For instance, I weirdly miss conversations where a whole group of people are trying to remember an answer to a question. I still find my self ask a question to a group and when someone pulls out their phone I'm disappointed because I didn't just want the answer.
But that's not a reason to go back. That's just nostalgia.
I don't want to get rid of that stuff, but instead I uninstalled all work apps off my phone. They need me, they can page me and I'll login with my work laptop. When I'm out of work, I'm out.
Return to it and have my knowledge of all the positive and negative aspects erased would be something I’d consider. But having used all the technology for so long, I couldn’t imagine just don’t having it anymore tomorrow
anyone who says that forgets how bad tv sucked back then
I mean you'd have to at least bring back video stores or something
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