Millennials And Gen X Share How They Had Fun Before The Internet, And I Feel ANCIENT

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Millennials And Gen X Share How They Had Fun Before The Internet, And I Feel ANCIENT
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'The anticipation!!! I can feel it! Seconds ticking by, hand hovering over the phone receiver! One tiny blip of a ring — SNATCH!! And somehow out of breath from all that anxiety when you said 'hello.''

Dbenitostock / Getty Images"I read a lot, watched movies, and talked on the phone for HOURS at a time. Often, I was out at the mall with friends, or hanging out at their houses, going to arcades, etc. I was never bored — even when I was at home alone in my room. Boredom just wasn’t a thing when I had a good book.""Talking on the phone! Clicking over to the other line when call waiting beeped.

Social media didn’t really take off until smartphones became normalized and the internet was more widely available. It also took bandwidth increasing and becoming segregated from the landline before we got anything close to video streaming as it exists today.""We honestly didn’t hang out in our rooms that much. We played football in the street and rode our bikes and rollerblades around with neighborhood kids.

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