what was life like b4 mobile phones?

Question

my lil sis needs it 4 her scool homeworl. plz help!!!

shes already got that u cant contact friends/family/emerencies without it but any more wud be brill
cheers ;-)

Answer 1

Well, you had to wait until you got home or to work to find out if someone called. What about before answering machines! Then, if you weren't home and someone called, you just missed it, that's it!

Car rides were more boring, no one could call if you forgot something from where you just left, you couldn't get emergency help if you got in a car accident or if someone was chasing you, you found information out slower, pizza places did less business because you couldn't order on the way home, there were no jobs in the cellphone industry- now it employs lots of people.

Oh, also, you got charged extra for long distance on your home phone. Some people (like me) don't even HAVE home phones anymore. If you were going to meet someone, and you were running late, that was just too bad, you couldn't tell them, and you couldn't find them exactly if it was a crowded place like you can now.

The person who said people had more money in their pocket is wrong- I dont' have a home phone bill anymore, I've saved tons in gas if someone cancels before I get there, and I find info via cellphone.

Answer 2

My Dad says, 'You had to put four old pennies in the black box and press button A and then when the connection was made you pressed button B and the 'pennies dropped'. Bit of a cultural link there for you! When we went decimal on 15th February 1971, the day my Dad flew back to BAOR, the phone boxes were all decimal by then. What a palaver. You could only phone home from a call box. You really did not want to do that in a big city because they were all swimming in urine. The 'vaults', that's where the money drops into, were very vulnerable to being opened illegally and they could contain quite a bit of cash. The Post Office, they ran the phone network and were a nationalised company, installed alarms into the vaults and the alarm was triggered when an attempt was made to force open the 'vault'. There were a lot of red call boxes all over the country, remember the iconic phone box in the movie Gregory's Girl! A lot more than there are today. You have to remember not everyone had a phone in their house. I lived in a row of houses in a block of 6 and 3 blocks and out of those 18 houses, in 1967 only one had a phone installed!! There was nothing like the domestic network there is nowadays. You were seen as 'middle class' if you had a phone in the house. The nearest red box to my house was about a mile away, near the post office. This was Portland, Dorset, which was pretty backward in those days.' My Dad's got a good memory.

Answer 3

before mobiles...

1. we all needed spare change and to know where the nearest phone boxes were.

2. Pick up times and places were arranged with friends/parents in advance.

3. Cinemas weren't full of annoying ringtones and people using their phones during the film so you didn't get the bright light of their screen out of the corner of your eye as you were trying to watch.

4. People walking down the street talking to themselves were actually considered strange.

5.You had a good excuse when someone couldn't get hold of you. (weren't at home, etc.)

6. Answerphones were king.

7. There wasn't a need to impress classmates by having better phones.

8. Kids would spend their money on something other than credit.

9. Most conversations took place face-to-face, meaning you could read facial expressions and body language... less misunderstandings and less arguments that way...

10. Text language did not exist.

Answer 4

No annoying ring tones or loud conversations to the phone during films, theatre, concerts etc. More public payphones, people paying attention to their driving, walking along etc. Far more evidence of spelling and grammatical ability.

However a breakdown in an isolated area could be worrying, you couldn't get teenagers to get off your phone (expensive). People seemed more inclined to go and visit someone rather than make a phone call.

Answer 5

Life was certainly less frentic. Relationships were probably smoother because little white lies covered so many sins of omission or commission. As in, I couldn't finding a phone box that was working.
The workplace was a more concrete quanitity as it could not follow you around at all times and privacy or lack of it was less of an issue.

Answer 6

Well, gee... I wish you could have written this question in real english with real and correct spelling, but things were a whole lot quieter when everyone didn't have a cell phone stuck in their ear and were talking at the top of their lungs about the most private things while everyone around them had to listen

Answer 7

Life before the mobile was a bit more organised, as everyone had to set times and dates to meet up. Delays could not be easily explained away on route. There was always the home phone and telephone boxes for emergencies.

Answer 8

If the telephone works on a community right here the telephone will artwork in Canada yet bear in mind you would be paying a number of money for calls as that's a distant places telephone. the different option is to get somebody in Canada to open your telephone to the Canadian networks and purchase a Sim card as quickly as in Canada

Answer 9

life before mobile phones was much better, life didn't seem to be such a rush......i have 2 mobiles phone which most of the time i keep on silent. i wish i never really had one but in cases of emergency they are the best thing since sliced bread!

Answer 10

People, like yourself, didn't use text speak to type on a real keyboard.
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