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Life Before the Internet: How We Spent Time in the 1980s
Introduction: A Time Before Wi-Fi There was a time—not so long ago, really—when the phrase “you’ve got mail” meant walking to a physical mailbox. When scrolling meant flipping through the pages of a dog-eared magazine, and the only kind of “streaming” was the trickle of water from a backyard hose on a hot summer day.…