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It's hard to imagine life beforeTechnology. And if you had to havethrough a dayNo internet? What about going on a trip on the road without Google Maps? Or getGifts in a pinch Without Amazon? All this probably seems almost impossible these days. But not only we did it a few decades a few decades ago, some of us are missing even these simpler moments. We managed to get so much accomplished, but we have just done it a little differently.

The modern amenities of today are easy to take for granted, but it is important tolook back on Just how many times we came. "There is a big saying that if we do not know where we come, how can we know where we are going?" Said Francine Cefola, co-author of the new bookTell it in the future. "I'm firm that we believe we're learning from the past, and if we do not know things we can not conceptualize, because it seems too archaic or slow or unproductive, we are missing to understand how we are today."

If you do not remember life before the technology has taken the end of the technology and that you have done everything "easier," here is an overview of the difference in the world in the twentieth century. And for more than what distance we came,That's what the meeting looked like more than 50 years ago.

Anyone who has taken many trips from the road to the 20th century did not haveGoogle Maps practice. Instead, we had to take our atlas for the trip.Spiral-linked and a little more than 160 pages, these atlas contained information on the highway and roads on the 50 states. But the navigation of point A to point B was still delicate. And as the Atlas were updated once a year, the information was not always accurate.

Peter Dalbis, 76, Oak Park, Illinois, remembers to be on the open road, guided only by his atlas McNally Rands Non-Fusty Fusty. "Sometimes there were missing roads," Dalbis said. "Or a road on the map that did not exist technically. But we could understand it. You can not be complacent with an atlas, not like those people whoput all their confidence in a GPS. We never led a car in a swamp because our Rand McNally told us to say it, I'll tell you that a lot. "

If an atlas has never failed information on important transport, Dalbis says it would go to the center of a visitor. "They would know the exact change you needed for tolls and if there was a coming construction, we had to worry," he said. "After a long day on the road, he could just be nice to hear another human voice. In addition, they had cards too. Free cards!"

If you wanted to send a message to someone without talking it before the 2000s, you had to write them a letter. Yes, a letter by hand, with paper and a pen or pencil. AndsoYou had to go to the nearest post office to buy stamps.

The messages involved a little more effort and many people feel like a healthier way to communicate. "The letters have always been a good way to show someone when they left that you think of them," said Mike Stouffer, Wausau, Wisconsin,CnnReferring to the notes he will send to his wife Bobbi in the early 90s. "They helped our relationship to develop a great way."

Floridien UF Tukel told CNN: "The e-mail can never replace enthusiasm and thrill to receive and open a personal letter."

Long before Wi-Fi was a reality, the only way to go online was to access the Internet remotely.Margaret WeissNew Jersey's life and finance coach recalledQuora on the first days of the internet. "[You would need] a steady fixed line, which you will then look for the wall outlet and connect the cord to your machine," she wrote. You would also need a monthly Internet subscription. And in 1998, it would cost you$ 21.95 per monthFor an unlimited connection to AOL.

Christopher Burke, Seattle Software Developer,to crush Quoraon the hassle of the days of Internet access. "If you only have one telephone line, you must make sure that no one else in the house collects the phone to dial while you are connected to the Internet, or your connection" will deposit "and you will need to dial New, "he recalled.

"Some cities had one or two numbering numbers, each connected to a switching system and a bank of 10 or 100 modems. So, during the periods of the day, you may not be able to connect to Internet because all modems were used by other users. "And everyone remembers thenoise You will hear as you have composed.

The entrance to Barbara Lichtenwalter from Florida to the photograph was with a camera topcon automatte 100 film de Beeseler. (TheOriginal user manualis 60 pages long and contains detailed instructions on all of the shutter speed, the depth of distance diagrams in the field, the process in 11 steps to charge the camera.) "It took me weeks weeks. To learn how to takea decent photo," she said.

And with a movie, seeing what you have photographed was anything but immediate. "You sent the movie or took him to a film developer and you will get it back in about a week. Then you would see if you had something focusing or the good color", A-T- she explains.

That said, even back in the day, you can always take a kind of "selfie", as long as you were quickly and your camera came equipped with a timer. "You can access [the camera] and run where it was destined and a week later, you would discover it ifYou were actually on the picture, "Says Lichtenwalter.

Getting money from a friend or family member in the days preceding Venmo requiring face to face contact. "If you have had some dollars, you should have the physical currency - from an ATM or walking in the branch of your bank and asking for a withdrawal from one of the cashiers," said Chad S. de Portland, Oregon. "And then you had tomake to the person you owed it and give it directly. "

Or you can use a check. But it was like Chad says, "an entire thing". "I paid a lot of debts by putting people a personal check. But he does not have the immediateness of money," he explained. "They must wear this check to their bank, sign the back of it and fill out a deposit, then wait until three days, and sometimes much longer, so that money is clear on their account."

Things were considerably more difficult if you lived in a different city of the person you were trying to send money to. "You can send them a check," he said. "You can also send them in cash, that my grandparents have sometimes done, but it was always dangerous. I remember my parents telling me," If you're going to send money, make sure he is not visible through the envelope. "So we are enveloping paper money or a greeting card or something to hide it." And then, again, there was a wait involved. "A letter could take several days to get to someone," said Chad. "And sometimes weeks."

There was not too long since electronic cigarettes and steam did not exist, but things changed so quickly.AtQuora, Kevin Bryant, a British whostop smoking After 25 years, removalFavorite Part of Smoking Cigarettes: "Non satisfaction Press a new pack". He continued to: "the crumpling of the surrounding envelope, the smell of fresh tobacco - the smell [sic] adult, choice, freedom, relaxation. "

Bryant also wrote about the context in which he smoked (ie inside), who was widely authorized in the big American cities until the 2000s. He recalled to go to a pub and Having "a pint of British beer warms, discussing serious and trivial in the smoke atmosphere with the beating jukebox in the corner."

Even when personal computers have become the norm in the middle of the end of the 1990s, we still have not fully confidently confidently so that our files are safe and secure. So, if there was an important document, you absolutely need access to, you will print it on paper.

AtQuora, Tom Crosley, resident of Arizona, recalled that his father's office is "taken up by deposit cabinets". He added that his father"We also had an appointment security similar to that found in the banks, and it was filled with more workbooks. The safe was not there because of a flight, but because it was fire retardant."Crosley's father has employed a staff of deposit employees whose only job was to "retrieve files and update the files kept in these cabinets".

See the hottest new movie in the 20th century was not as easy as streaming on yoursmartphone or adding to yourNetflix tail.

"You had to go to a theater," said Atlanta Adam Cole. If you have not caught a movie during its original race, you have to wait for it to look at television "in a modified form with commercial interruptions," a pole up. It would take months ... or even years!

For example,Stars wars, which was originally published on May 25, 1977, was not available for paying subscribers from the point of view until 1982 and did not come to HBO before 1983. It's asix yearswait! "The theater was really the only way to see a movie as it was supposed to be seen," Cole said. "I stayed online for two hours to get a ticket forThe Empire Counter-Attack, then stood in another line for an hour and a half to enter the theater. "

As recent as the mid-years, if you were not available to watch yourShow favorite TV Living, you were not lucky. There was no Hulu service or on request to catch it the next day.

Your only choice in the 80s and 90 had to try to record the episode you knew you would miss via your VCR. But even it was not a safe success. As a commentator explained onMetafilling, "The VCR did not have its own tuner and needed the cable box and there was no communication between the devices," he wrote. As a result, "the chain should be set to the cable box, then the timer of the VCR. Below, either up, and you miss your show." Whoever born before 1990 probably remembers this heartbreaking feeling of90210Do not save or learn that your parents had recorded your favorite episode while trying to recordNypd blue.

Keeping a child entertaining during a road trip involved a little more creativity decades than to give them a tablet. "When I was younger, we would play the carGames with our parents, "said Illinois Native Christopher Trifilio." My father would bethink about a number Between one to 100 and we would guess. He would say "higher" or "lower" until we were right away. "

"When we took travel by plane, we have always brought books and a backpack entirely filled with coloring pounds, pencils and colored pencils. It was fun to be creative," remembers Trifilio. "Each of us would try to demonstrate that we were the best in coloring. Then we will draw photos from the other, which generally had a lot of laughs because none of us were artists."

The court is it, the children had to be entertained. "I remember spending all my time looking at the big windows of our car to see what I could see", remembers Laura Warfel de Chicago. "If we drove at night at night, I would strengthen myself so that I can look for the moon and the stars."

There was no reading either during a car or a trip by plane, unless you remembered to pack a physical book. And if you do not have one, you had to go to the library."The books came in all sizes and you could borrow them from a library," remembers Cefola. Cornding thatperfect book required an understanding of how they were arranged in a library. "Library books were organized by the Dewey Decimal System - a dialing system to put books in their respective genre," Cefora explained.

Chris Coleman, librarian based in a thousand oaks, California, provided the followingexplanationQuora."For each room in the collection, a paper card is typed with the information of the article. ... for a customer to locate an article, they examine the files and sort the cards, "he noted."When a client finds a card corresponding to the selection they want, they can use it to locate the element of the collection. They then bring the card and article to the traffic office, where they take the card and place it in a dated file, insert a card dated the date date and return the item to the customer. "

Clearly, the Kindle was only the thing ofscience fiction At that time.

Tracking your fitness in the 20th century was much less accurate than we are used to today. "The only time I always followed my fitness was at the gym" recalled New Yorker Ron S. "This is the only time I even wondered how many steps I took or something like that. And myheartbeat, Gosh, I do not think Ialreadythink about this. This is something that your checked doctor during an annual review. It's not something you've monitored every day. It would have been crazy for us. "

Cefola stated that most of the people she knew during these pre-Fitness tracker days "were not as dedicated to exercise. It was aWeight loss tool rather thanhealthy lifestyle. There were private gymnasium that you could belong to and use their equipment, such as Jack Lalanne or Vic Tanny, or you can buy a small dumbbell set for use at home. But walking and house exercises were for "healthy walnuts" and bodybuilders. "

ANew York Timesstory storySpace age clothes"From 1983, a headband consisting of a" light insulating material and a special cooling gel "that could" reduce the temperature over a 30 degree front and help reduce the loss of perspiration and the discomfortintense exercise. "

But according to the inventor of the head band, customers do not actively seek in search ofSweat-repeat training clothes. "People walk in Bloomingdale and see one of my headbands of $ 14.95 and they think it's just a headband," he told theTimes. "They do not know it's a cooling system."

"We learned what was the new cool thing to wear while reading fashion magazines or looking at music videos," said Heather G. de Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "But probably the most immediate way we learned about what was fashionable was the department stores."

The main channels such as Hudson's, Marshall Field's, Macy's, T.J.Maxx, JCpenneney and Montgomery Ward did not only give the last clothes brands, they also served as style gurus. "My daughter laughs at that, but I really did a lot of my fashion choices based on what Montgomery Ward's models were wearing," Heather said. "The store puts much effort to create these dioramas. The mannequins would interact, so it was easy to fantasize that it was what your life could look like. It's really theInstagram of his time. "

Some people, like Warfel, had a more personal relationship with their localClothing stores. "My mother would make my sister and me in a shop and we will know the ladies sales by name," she said. "The Sales Lady brought us different sizes and other outfits that she suggested to us to try. We invoked some brands of names for quality and style, and sometimes for social status."

If you wanted to keep in touch with loved ones who did not live in the 20th century and that a phone call did not have the intimacy you wanted, there was no facetime to solve your problem. But there were other ways to feel connected to those who live far.

"I remember when I was in high school, we would record messages to sing in band recorders and sends these small tapes of cassettes by mail to my brother and aunt, who lived abroad," remembered Marita, who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. "They said theyfelt happier And their aspiration for the family has been relaxed with our recorded letters and songs and songs. "

The phone call costs were often based on the distance - the more you have experienced the person you contact, the cheaper the call."The first minute was always the most expensive,"A blogger recalled onFlash. "Long distance rates were so steep that you could fill your tank with gas to talk on the phone for an hour."

The other factor was the time of day. Calls were cheaper on weekends and late at night. "In most houses, a long distance was prohibited except the weekend "the blogger wrote." If you absolutely needed to call a day of the week, it should be late in the evening and you should make it super fast. ... I remember having to wait until 10:00. Sunday night to call parents and the bill has been added to $ 17 for an hour, which had a lot of money at the time! "

Today, we all know how frustrating it can wait for your online digital location when tickets go on sale for your favorite artist visit. But a few decades ago a few decades ago was a totally different experience. You had to go to a realRetailer, such as a record store or ticket box for tickets.Scott Hudson, Music Critic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,wrote About wanting desperately to seeBruce Springsteen In the 1980s in Lincoln, Nebraska. "The day before [tickets] went for sale, a friend and I made the four-hour trip and discovered that we were (about) number 1 800 online," he noted.

The box office opened at 10 am and even with "10 or two clerks selling tickets", they still did not do it until the end of the line before 6 m. It's because "You would notice in a place on the location floor plan and [clerks] would see if there were tickets in this section. You would repeat this process until you find open seats that you have willing to live with. They did not even update these leaves to show which areas were sold. "The only other ticketing option was even more risky."Giant tours usually used a mail order lottery system," Hudson explained. "You will send a command of money and return envelope, and every day you waited by the mailbox to see if you made the cup."

As Cinematographer Royce Allen DudleyexplainedQuora, aerial photography used with helicopters and occasionallyFixed wing aircrafts. "In some cases, the camera was mounted on the nose or side inside a transparent aerodynamic sphere, gimballed and remotely controlled by joysticks from the passenger seat," wrote Dudley. "Most of the good camera drivers are / were veteran combat drivers. Their finesse at the bar to put the lens where [necessary] was great."

The process was not just difficult, but dangerous too. There was a high mortality rate for air movie crews, Dudley noted. In fact, it was "perhaps the most dangerous work of cinema, other than those of the breakers' brothers and sisters".

Any family in the twentieth century wanted "round-horrible access to tons of information could simply jump on the internet. Inasmuch asOrlando Sentineljournalist explainIn the late 1980s, families would invest in a huge set of "hard disk volumes with gold letters with pseudo-Greek titles, such as the Britannica Encyclopedia and the Americana Encyclopedia" . And they were not cheap. The price ranged from $ 300 and $ 1,500.There were even door door vendors who used "high pressure sales tactics" for expensive costly faunconcyclopedies.

During the arguments of the dinnertime, Karen de Montana remembers the premises of his family to solve problems "As, "do bananas become or get off?" "We would discuss the problem, so someone would decide to solve the problem by rushing for encyclopedias and guess if the answer would be under B for banana or F for fruits," she remembered. Just pass. Through an encyclopedia "would introduce us other topics of conversation, and far, we would fall the learning rabbit hole ...."

Before having each item imaginable at hand and needed a Knick-Knick-Knick, you head to the local penny store. "The Dime Store was once an innovative concept in retail. Buyers could find a variety of daily goods at low prices. Stationery, sewing notions, toys, health care and beauty, dishes and clothes remain the staples of the variety store, "wrote aThat timejournalist in 1988.

"If someone really wants a violet zipper, he can go to his dime store", Marvin A. Smith Sr., Executive Vice President of the National Assn. Variety stores, said at the time. "And if he does not, he will command him for you." In addition to this, DIME stores served grilled cheese and Malt milkshakes. Amazon can it do that?And for some special online findings, check out the27 gorgeous hand items that you can buy on Amazon.

Maintain your social circle Required a little more effort for past generations. In the twentieth century, "you had to call someone on the phone, then plan their meeting," recalled Cole. And if you missed the call, this person could possibly fall from your life, for the better or for the worst.John P. de Saint-Louis added: "You could go for years, even decades, without ever hearing your old high school friends or a distant cousin who lived six states at a distance or all your former girlfriends. You had no obligation to interact with any of them. It was amazing. "

And if there was any information you wanted someone to hear, you had to say it directly or transmit it by a third party. "If there was a meeting or a meeting, you will tell you two or three people and let them pass the news verbally," remembers Marita. "Or we go home at home to let people know the time and place of the meeting. It was a personal thing. We communicated face to face."

Even when the internet was introduced in the 1990s,social media did not work as if it's done today. "When I was a child, we also had bulletin billboards, which were the internet ancestor," Cole said. "You call a computer with your computer, you connect and leave a message on a computer card that everyone could read. It was a great way to havegroup cats. "And for more information on social media communication in his worst, check the30 lies Everyone tells about social media.

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