When you consider about how far technology has come,it's tough to imagine ever having lived without everyday things like social media and laptops. The reality is these societal norms beget only been around for the entirety of one generation's lifetime. To establish that in perspective, we've compiled a list of obsolete objects that your kids will never understand. Read ahead for a trip back in time.
Cassette tapes: There was no such thing as playlists or streaming. It was you and your puny rectangle against the world. Image source: Flickr user Stuart.
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Phone books: The big yellow books that housed every phone number you could possibly need before you were able to look them up online.
Navigating without GPS: Road maps! Actual pieces of paper you had to read in order to rep from point A to point B.
Flip phones: Before smartphones came flip phones. Remember the ones that had multiple letters on one button?
Dial-up internet: The awful noise you'd hear as you waited for your server to put through (telephone). It took at least 10 minutes before you could rep online.
Phone booths: Those archaic stations that still exist on the streets of some big cities. One wouldn't dare rep near them now. Image source: Flickr user Eric Wittman
Beepers: Before text messaging existed, and people would page you with their digits to call them back or exhaust numbers to create code words you'd beget to decipher.
Carrying a camera and a phone: Phones didn't always beget a built-in camera. It even took weeks to rep film developed from some cameras,like disposables.
Doing research in the library: It took hours and hours to find information in books where contents were set in stone, unlike the ever-changing internet.
Answering machines: A separate box used to store voice messages from people who called when you weren't domestic. Does anyone even check voicemail anymore?
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