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What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
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Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.

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[–] Techmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We would run down the street with a stick and we'd stick in the fence while running so it would make a noise. Or we'd stick a playing card into the spoke of our bike so it would make a noise. We were entertained by noises. And rewinding VHS tapes.