The explanation of this mother to his son on how the college "worked" before the email is hilarious

"How would you discover everything?"


Young people tend today to have trouble understanding how the rest of us managed to surviveBefore smartphones andE-mail. You can see that their eyes widen in incredulity when we explain that, yes, we have crossed a physical card and, no, we have not subjected to electronically term papers. Who is probably why someoneMore than 40 years can really relate to this hilarious text exchange betweenKathy Torrence, 51 years old and his 20 year old son. He recently sent him a text of a college to seriously ask: "How did he doUniversity Work before your email? And the conversation that followed will really bring you back.

For example, how to know if a class has been canceled, he wondered?

By reading the note on the door that said, "The class is canceled," Torrence told him. But ... but ... it meant to haveTo wake up early and physically cross the campus just to turn around? Why, yes-yes, it's done.

mom explains how college worked before the internet to son
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Then he asked, "How would you find something?"

Well, you have worn a notebook and a pen with you to write interesting opportunities posted on aBulletin board, That Torrence explained was a "cork board with thrust pins".

Barbara Noble Sobel / Facebook

"But how do you read that without walking to the building?" The son of Torrence asked. (You can virtually hear his "sigh" that followed.)

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Barbara Noble Sobel / Facebook

Finally, the son of Torrence has seized the concept of reading the job on the cork carton. But so what?

You had to call a phone number and talk to someone of your interest in the position, his mother explained.

"I can not imagine having to interact with a real human for [a job]," he replied. (Understandable, Torrence did not explainthe yellow Pages to him. It does not seem ready for that.)

mom explains how college worked before the internet to son
Barbara Noble Sobel / Facebook

With the permission of Torrence, his friendBarbara Noble Sobel postageon Facebook September 20th and he quickly wentviral, with more than 24,000 shares in less than two weeks.

Most people wrote that they could not stop laughing messages and added their ownSouvenirs of life In what happens sometimes now as the Stone Age.

Of course, it might not seem great to today's noddes. But if you lived there, you do not find yourself sometimesnostalgic wax how simple things were just aLittle few decades a few decades ago?

"With the limits of communication, things were so different," Torrence saidToday In an interview on the now viral texts. "But we did not realize - you can not miss what you do not have." Ah, the days of glory.

And for another fun story about schooling before the age of the smartphone, check12 hilarious questions whose young people have on the 90s.

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