What was life like before smartphones and the Internet? I am a millennial 😊

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No computers to take home. There was an actual busy season instead of it being year round.

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When I left work at the end of the day, I didn’t check email again until I was back in the office in the morning.

People called and talked to each other on the phone instead of texting or looking at social media posts. We wrote letters to friends and family as well and sent them through the mail.

We printed out tax returns on paper and signed them by hand and mailed them to the IRS.

We went to restaurants without knowing their yelp or google rating.

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So I’m a millennial but I remember getting internet at home in middle school. You couldn’t be online and on the phone at the same time and a very long “computer cord” ran through our kitchen. AOL free trials got you free dial up internet for years. When we needed our parents to pick us up, we would call collect from payphones and just say “we’re ready” in the name space so our parents didn’t have to accept the call. 😂😂

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If you don’t remember life before smartphones you’re not a Millennial, or you have amnesia from like age 6-12. You’re a gen z bud. I’m 24 and still remember when I first got internet in my house and having a flip phone

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Very different. Solely focusing on work - We were trained to check voicemail first thing in the morning and before bed at night. You actually had time to review documents. Clients would call and say they were faxing over a 30 page document. You would confirm the fax number and then stand by it till you got all the pages. You would call them back and say you received it and needed 3 days to read it. They were ok with that. We had a lot more phone calls and face to face meetings We used a lot more paper. As was pointed out - when I went home - other than checking voicemail - you were done with work till the next day. The world was slower. There was less information constantly coming at you

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You sound more like a Gen Z than a millennial

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We could hold an actual conversation!

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Actual physical maps to drive places

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Yeah. And you had to wait until after 7 to make a long distance call, when the rates went down. And you paid for those calls by the minute. You had a phone on the kitchen and maybe your parents had a phone in their bedroom When your phone rang you had no idea who it was. You had to actually talk to people and couldn’t walk down the street watching a movie

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We had actual dictionaries and encyclopedias growing up. And I remember Carmen San Diego on a floppy disk was damn cool.

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Thanks! Now this is Stuck in my head....

Green acres is the place for me
Farm livin' is the life for me
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside

New York is where I'd rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a penthouse view
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue

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Shit I just remember playing outside all day. You didn’t need social media because everyone you cared about was already around you. Bruh we didn’t need internet either, when you had a 64 with golden eye and Mario kart, we just had a blast eating pizza and gaming against each other pulling all nighters. Fuckin good times.

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EY7, its not mentioning the party line that shows your age...its the reference to Green Acres. 😂😂

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Lol E4....Those were the days eh?! Oh no....that’s the theme song for All in the Family!
Seriously on days like today I long for those simpler times.

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No one stared at their hands during dinner. Lol

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God I wish I were better at comedy writing. This post all but writes itself to my million dollar retirement

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Showing my age, when I visited my Aunt, she had a party line which meant if somebody else was talking on the rotary phone when you picked it up to use it, you had to hang up and wait until they were done. If you called people on the phone and they were on their phone, you got a busy signal. But it was better than Green Acres... at least we didn’t have to climb a pole....lol

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81-96 are millennials

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EY4...welcome

When you get tired of Green Acres, hum the tune to Gilligan’s Island or whistle the Andy Griffith theme.

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Damn you E7! Damn you :) :) LOL

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