In an interesting news article featured on the BBC today, it was claimed that many of today’s children spend up to three hours a day on their tablets or mobile devices. Many of them don’t even watch a TV set anymore, choosing to get all their entertainment online.
This got us thinking! What did we do before the internet existed? Here are things that we used to do the hard way but the boom of internet and its benefits simplified them! Whatever did we do without technology?
We’re so used to downloading and streaming music, we forget there was a time when we had to make our own mix tapes. Carefully standing with our fingers hovering over the “PLAY/RECORD” buttons on our tape decks, whilst listening to the Radio 1 chart on a Sunday evening. The sound quality was rubbish, but the love that went into making them was second to none.
