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?
Pre Google, what did you do if you needed an urgent repair job, or needed to find an emergency plumber? You used Yellow Pages and had to wait in all day for a workman to not turn up. Now, we go online to look for how to repair things ourselves – then when that goes wrong, Google a tradesman to come and put it right. Then grumble on Facebook when you’ve waited in all day and he hasn’t turned up.
