16 Things We Had To Endure Before The Invention Of Smartphones

Thanks to technology, smartphones virtually do everything for us but this was not the same some few years ago.

So you can imagine all the things you can use your smartphones to do and now imagine that it doesn’t exist and you will realise how real the struggle was for those of us who had to grow up without smartphones.

Here are 16 things we had to endure before the invention of smartphones.

 

1. There was no way you could record a video or show evidence of you being at DAVIDO‘s concert.

You had to go, watch, come back home and make all the noise about it without evidence.

2. You needed to buy a digital camera before you could record a sex tape and they didn’t come cheap.

3. The clock in your house could not set an alarm and so you depended on your Casio watch and even with that, the sound couldn’t wake you up.

4. If you really wanted to read the news, you had to buy the newspaper or go stand at the news stand and read the newspapers hanging on the stall.

5. We had a rack specially designed for cassettes to be stacked because you couldn’t load your songs on your device.

6. When it comes to location, you had to depend on the woman selling beans by the corner and if she’s not there, you’re lost.

7. Blocking calls mean lifting the phone off the cradle. Doing that also means blocking everyone from getting in touch, not just one person.

8. You needed a real phone book to write down contacts.

9. You had to actually memorize your friend’s house number before they get offended.

10. Answering the phone meant you had to always ask who was calling not like today where you can tell who it is right on your screen and even if it is a strange number, TrueCaller can reveal it to you.

11. Taking a picture with a camera means you had to wait till it is printed from the negatives.

12. Sending a message means, sitting down, writing a letter, walking to the post office, buying a stamp and posting it.

13. To search for information, you needed to walk to the library to do that.

14. There was nothing like selfies, there must always be one person who had to take the picture.

15. If you need a song from your friend, you had to go to his house to get it.

16. If you really wanted to find a company’s number, you needed one of these big books.