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Have you heard of public libraries? Or friends with phones? In olden times, we had one phone number for our family. And before phones we had mail. There's a
by stretchwithme 9y ago
Have you heard of public libraries? Or friends with phones?
In olden times, we had one phone number for our family. And before phones we had mail. There's are all kinds of ways to communicate, albeit slower than carrying a cellphone.
- mikeash 9y agoIn olden times, other people expected you to use these other ways to communicate. Now they don't. The fact that you can still mail a letter doesn't help at all when the other party expects something else.
- stretchwithme 9y agoNobody has to use mail any more for many kinds of communications. That was just an example of how we addressed such needs before we had access to phones.