A few of us might even know what this busybody is up to…
How DID we survive, even exist before the Internet?
Before GPS map app’s?
Before cell phones?
Before email?
Before home computers?
Before music CDs?
Before electronic calculators?
Before answering machines?
Before FM stereo?
Before TV?
A few of us might even know what this busybody is up to…
Before all that?
Smoke signals.
We didn’t just survive. We lived! Or something like that
Our cell phone is so important to us now, that if we forget to take it with us when we go out-— we go back home to get it. Sick!
Younger people cannot comprehend. We used to unfold these gigantic maps in the car. Some were local but others would be of the entire Southeastern USA for example. We'd have to first locate where we were on the map and then plot a course to where we were going to go. We were completely ignorant of road construction projects and such so sometimes we'd navigate ourselves into a massive traffic jam.
And then those maps would never fold back together in quite the same neat way. Eventually, we'd get frustrated and toss the entire map into the trash.
If you were taking a longer trip and belonged to AAA, they would provide you with a customized flip map called "Trip Tik" and a human person would put it together for you and highlight in magic marker where you needed to go. As a child, I was always put in charge of this and was the designated navigator.
Don't forget your Traveller's Cheques!
The Amish manage (although someone in the community may still connect to the WWW).