Before everyone carried a phone in their pocket, pay phones were infrastructure — as ordinary and essential as street lights. Then they weren't, and then they were gone.
Read more →Before anyone had a phone in their pocket, private communication in school required paper, careful handwriting, and a willingness to risk public humiliation. It was worth it every time.
Read more →The fax machine sent physical documents through a phone line, and most people who used one every day in the 80s and 90s had no idea how it actually worked.
Read more →Before every person had a phone in their pocket, there was one phone in the kitchen, one in the hallway, maybe one in the bedroom — and it belonged to the whole family.
Read more →Before push notifications colonised every pocket, there was the pager — a tiny device that beeped, buzzed, and demanded your attention with no way to respond.
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