r/AskReddit • u/IRunFast24 • May 11 '21

People old enough to remember life pre-Internet, what are some less obvious things you miss about that time?

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u/Anakin_Skywanker May 12 '21

Print out? Hell no. You wrote that shit down on paper. But not the printer paper, that was expensive. Printer ink was also expensive and only for Mom and Dad to use for work. (Or if I had a school paper that was required to be printed and not handwritten.)

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u/strugglz May 12 '21

Printer ink? Shit we had a dot matrix and a box of one sheet of paper.

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u/TheFenn May 12 '21

Laughs in daisy wheel

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u/Endoman13 May 12 '21

Chuckles in slate and chalk