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?
Ah, Teletext. How we miss you. Booking a holiday was never an easy job, but we still did it. 385 pages of last minute deals. The one you wanted was on page 384. By the time it came round, you’d forgotten where the “Hold” button was and the page had gone before you’d had chance to note the deal. Thus missing the holiday of a lifetime to Cleethorpes (full board B&B with optional tickets to see Cannon and Ball).
