I would like to read a series or a regular column or SOMETHING exploring, explaining, Life Before The Internet.
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As usual, William Gibson explains my vague unease about life far more eloquently than I can.https://twitter.com/xor/status/1099734488748306432?s=21 …
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Travel! Travel is another one! I can fly to EUROPE! for like $300. The first time I did that cost thousands of dollars and a trip to the travel agency at the mall.
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I would listen the heck out of any podcast that tries to do it tho https://twitter.com/noboa/status/1099739942916448257?s=21 …
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The invention of TiVo would have solved like 80% of Frasier and Martin's disagreements
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I think about this every time I watch a Friends episode where they fly somewhere--they book their tickets by *calling the airline*
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I remember sitting in my apartment in around 1995 and psyching myself up to phone a hotel in Prague (which I had found in a guide book) to try to reserve a room.
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It still surprises me every time I watch home alone and they run to the gate and there is no security line to go through!
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I miss dial tones.
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I distinctly remember watching Sandra Bullock order pizza online in The Net and saying, out loud, “impossible! How could that ever happen?!”
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YOU DONT HAVE TO CARRY CASH AND EXCHANGE IT. Just get off a plane and use your ATM card. Still floors me tbh
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Compulsively keeping track of your return flight paper tickets the whole trip because it was the same as money. You lose it and you are screwed!
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When I got stuck at the UK border in 2012, they kept asking for my ticket. I gave them my boarding pass stub and they said, "no, your ticket." I looked at them confused and finally, in my best arrogant American, said: It's all electronic in the US.
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