“Freedom. Starting around age 10 to around age 14, when I got back from school, nobody knew where I was until dinner, and nobody cared. The only rule was be home before dinner which was about 7:00 PM.”
“The freedom to be a kid without being influenced by the internet and having your worst moments immortalised on it.”
“Actual toy prizes in cereal boxes”
“Having to wait through a TV guide, only to miss what you were looking for and having to wait even longer for it to come back again.”
“Taking pictures with film cameras and waiting for them to get developed until you could see how bad you looked lol”
“Phone books. Every once in a while one would just show up at our front door.”
“Affordable housing”
“Saturday morning cartoons or weekly morning cartoons.”
“A sense of optimism for the future.”
“Phone booths.”
“Privacy. Back in the day, the only way someone could know what I was up to was if they physically followed me. Now, my smartphone does that for them”
“Getting off the phone so someone can use the internet. Haha”
“The high beam switch in your car was on the floor by your left foot.”
“Restaurant smoking sections”
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