Instead of exchanging Snapchats, you’d stay up late into the night, cord curled around your fingers, whisper-laughing so hard your stomach hurt. (This, by the way, was known as “tying up the phone lines.”) It might seem bizarre to think about now-how did we even live before cell phones? What did we do in emergencies? How’d we make our BFF laugh in the middle of the workday?īut pre-cellphone culture was actually pretty great.
You couldn’t be online and on the phone at the same time. If you had the Internet, that counted as a call. Only one call could be made at a time, so if you had a family of four you had to negotiate (especially if one or more family members was in high school). Most households just had the one line, mayyyybe two. In those days, the whole phone situation was waaaaay different. Well kids, back in the pre-cellphone dark ages (a.k.a the 80s and early 90s), we used to amuse ourselves by calling up strangers… and f*cking with them.
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