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- e-Mail (Corporate and Personal) – we talked more or wrote letters to people.
- Internet/Google – we used encyclopedias or went to the library.
- Mobile phones – we used phone boxes or land lines.
- Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin – we met people in person.
- e-Bay/Amazon/Marketplaces – we went to jumble sales, had garage sales or held on to it!
- MP3 music/i-Pods – we bought vinyl or tape cassettes.
- i-Pads/e-readers -we read paper books.
- Youtube – we watched wrestling on World of Sport.
- Wireless networks – we accessed computer networks at the office, not at home or out and about.
- LCD displays/Plasma Televisions – we used huge clunky CRT’s and TV’s needed a full corner of a room.
- DVD’s – we used video.
- CD’s, CD players in cars – we listened to vinyl LP’s or the radio/cassette in cars. I didn’t get a CD player in my car until around 1996 from memory.
- Sky TV – we only had BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and later Channel 5.
- Dab Radio – we listened to conventional radio, often on Longwave.
- PVR (Personal Video Recorders like Sky+) – we set times on video recorders.
- SatNav – we used maps in atlases.
- Skype – we used a normal phone.
- Blogs – we kept secret diaries.
- Digital Cameras – we used film and didn’t see the pictures until they were developed after a week or so.
- Texting – seriously, we didn’t have text then. We talked.
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