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>One of the biggest changes is that even in the 1990s in many places, you'd have minimal or no contact with anyone back home and probably even reasonably cut of

• ghaff 4y ago
  Mostly there weren't English language newspapers. I guess I'd have found out about anything truly important on an international scale. But mostly no news. But then even at home most of my news was Time magazine once a week unless something was sufficiently important to reach me day to day.
• jasonkester 4y ago
  I suppose you could have. Personally I wouldn’t check on the world back home at all, except to send the occasion postcard (or email when that became possible). I’d learn about it all after getting home. Or sometimes not. I remember there being big movies that had come and gone while I was away that I only learned about years later. It’s hard to imagine, watching the current crop spending every evening on their phones instead of talking to other travelers.