it was quieter. it was easier to avoid distractions.
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Young person here: I feel a lot of these things that you miss are just you missing childhood altogether, although I'm sure there are plenty of real things to miss from the era but I also miss being 10 and relate to plenty of these things despite growing up in the 2010s.
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I miss phone screening. I wish I could just let all calls go to my answering machine and if the caller is leaving a legit message about something I could pick up, or if the caller was a telemarketer or someone I didn't want to talk to, let them think I wasn't home. Now, if someone calls and I don't pick up, I have to explain that the phone was in another room and I didn't hear it even though everyone knows I'm on Lemmy 24/7.
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I got my first (non-smart) cell phone at 11, first Android smartphone at 15...
My answer to this is: not really anything? Having a cell phone and a smartphone has made my life much easier, more fun and less boring, I would not want to go back to a world without it. I (kinda) do want to go back to (approximately) the state of the Internet at the time, but would still want to be able to access it from a mobile device!
I remember during the time when I already had a Nintendo DS but the first iPhone hadn't been announced yet, I would occasionally be bored at school and fantasize about how awesome it would be if my Nintendo DS could connect to the Internet anywhere I went. A few years later I got almost exactly that (looked a bit different from how I imagined though). :D
Nothing. It was dreadful.