Another thing I think technology has ruined is the art of handwriting. I sound ancient I know but did anyone else in school (Primary School and English in High School) have a rough book and a neat book to write your stories in?
The rough book would be to plan/draft your story and the neat book would be to properly write it down in your neatest handwriting, no computers and you'd get marked up/down depending on your actual handwriting as well as your story!
We also in Primary School had to learn a whole new style of cursive handwriting that everyone had to do, was a scheme from Berol with those red Berol Handwriting pens. Sadly when we went to high school this wasn't done so my handwriting and lots of others' all declined. Nowadays essays/stories/reports seem to just all be done on computers from what I can see. Shame really.