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You could book plane tickets. That, literally all by itself, would be enough for me to think building the internet was worth it. You kids have no idea how muc
by CPLX 5y ago
You could book plane tickets.
That, literally all by itself, would be enough for me to think building the internet was worth it.
You kids have no idea how much fun it was to go downtown to a travel agent just to find out how much it would cost to fly home from college for Christmas.
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago> go downtown to a travel agent Phones were out, too? ("You kids" should realize that most of the stuff done on the web today was done by mail or phone during most of the XX century, especially in a country as spread out as the US. Ring up the merchant with the order, sing out the credit card, done, was the MO from the 70s to the late 90s.)
- CPLX 5y agoI mean, yes. You’d need to go get the paper tickets. Obviously there were variations on how people would do things and mail order existed but I’m speaking literally, that’s how we used to do it and when the internet came along it got way way better.
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago> need to go get the paper tickets. Darn, no mail service either. That's harsh.