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> We would just walk to a movie theater and whatever was starting next, that’s what we’d see. It seems impossible to imagine. Only impossible because it sounds
by haunter 3y ago
> We would just walk to a movie theater and whatever was starting next, that’s what we’d see. It seems impossible to imagine.
Only impossible because it sounds fake or at least over-romanticized. 2002
was not the dark ages lol
I’m from
the same age group and local magazines, newspapers, leaflets etc. were carrying the cinema schedule (well they actually still do in some places)
- ghaff 3y ago2002 is post-dotcom era and I'm pretty sure I could get movie showtimes by dialing a phone number long before that. (Or looking in a newspaper as you say.) Go back and information generally was a lot harder to get but I'm not sure the time of movies is a great example.
- awiesenhofer 3y agoHeck, even in 2002 you didnt need to use your phone for actual calling anymore. Back then you could already (for years at that point!) ask for the local showtimes via SMS codes or look them up on WAP/i-mode info pages. Or was that not a thing in the US?
- ghaff 3y agoWAP was a thing in the US but I'd say that--in general--it wasn't a super-mainstream thing around 2000. I'm not sure I ever used it personally. The future was definitely unevenly distributed with respect to mobile in the US until relatively latterly.