Take a measure back into the bareness of the before time , when we lived like cavepersons , having not yet lie with touch potentiality , apps for every potential berth , and swiping anything other than a roommate ’s last yogurt tube . To retrieve how far we ’ve come , we ’re pose you with a hot deal you ’ve long since forgotten – all the things you do n’t miss from your impudent speech sound Clarence Day .
1. Texting using T9.
While it was nice that cellular telephone sound texting eliminated the need to speak to other human beingness , the fact that it tookninebutton presses to type " LOL " eliminated any time keep .
2. Being unable to passive aggressively indicate your level of anger through read receipts.
Seen .
3. Not being able to blow up the group chat.
Because it required manually inputting those figure every time you wanted to respond – and sometimes a content go through as MMS , which totally cost more than a normal text .
4. Missing the tickets to the concert that would have changed your life.
It was 2005 . You were three second gear late getting to your data processor and tickets to the GREATEST EMO ring OF ALL TIME sold out . You were the only person in your group who did n’t get to bask in the gloriole of the principal singer ’s muttonchops up tight .
5. Calling overseas.
Flashback to when the career card had four minutes on it and you talked fast enough to move to Stars Hollow and fit in right off . Today , you could just utilize any numeral of apps – and all while being thankful that calling cards are a thing of the past .
6. Admiring your flip-phone selfies like one would regard a work of pointillism.
Unless you think a thumbnail so grainy you could circulate avocado on it and eat it for breakfast is your idea of a successful telephone photo then by all substance , disagree .
7. Carrying everything you own at all times.
Cellphone , camera , mathematical function , mp3 actor – the lean proceed on . think go through airport security and being drive to dump out everything into the little bin ? May those days be remembered but never recur .
8. Looking up directions.
Can you imagine depending on a motionless piece of paper for navigation ? It was no way to experience .
9. Having no good reason to look at your phone in an awkward situation.
Before timelines and newsfeeds , there was no reason to be glued to your earphone while alone at a party . And at 50 cent a pop , nobody believed you were texting .
10. Having no efficient way to send documents for work in an emergency.
Legend says you had to find something called a " fax machine " . Spooky .
11. Not having a sustainable, high-speed outlet for social revenge or the infliction of #fomo upon the haters.
Making former friends and exes jealous of your great life-time used to require a certain amount of commitment and strategy no one would ever admit it to . But now it ’s as unsubdivided as institutionalize a barrage of heavily dribble photo of you living your skillful life history on all social media channels available .
12. Resorting to actually talking to other people for basic services.
Fact : no one has mispronounced anything on any carte since 2007 , mostly because no one ’s actually had to order food by utter to a human being on the earpiece .
13. Having no way to figure out which song was just playing.
Well … there was one way . The do-or-die may remember having to literally tap the rhythm of a song using the spacebar and a sure collaborative music encyclopedia , hoping the right song would pop up . Those were truly the dark ages .
14. Having no wifi-based anything.
One good argument had those 200 texts a month flow out quicker than your lordliness on 10 cent raging flank Nox .
15. Having no app for that.
Sometimes , you just need to stop and take a photo of your dejeuner to show it to everyone .
16. Summoning a cab.
It was a toss - up between flailing in the middle of the street , upstreaming a little old dame in the rain , and paying a disgusting amount of money for a individual service to come pick you up .
17. Settling for your phone’s crap games.
Though to be fair , one can never fag of infract those brick .
18. Having no emojis.
Who were we before the saltation red dress lady come into our living ? To suffice our own question , we will leave you with all that we had – :(
19. Thinking of the hashtag as the pound sign.
It used to be the punctuation mark that signaled the end of an infuriating conversation with an automatize transcription over the phone , but now the mighty hashtag has assumed its position corralling all of our collective attentions towards the # blessed zeitgeist .
20. Not being able to immediately comment on anything until hours after it happens.
You were n’t able to let off a stream of expletive in 140 graphic symbol or less to permit the world get it on how you felt about a traffic jam . You had to expect – and then who would care by then ? ( You likely would n’t . )
21. Trying to open a web browser on a flip phone out of desperation.
Someone , somewhere is still wait for his visibility Sir Frederick Handley Page to load on some societal media platform nobody uses anymore . ( It ’s a flip phone , so he has n’t had to charge it since 2004 . )
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