Thoughts From a Small Brown Girl

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What life was like before the internet

What life was like before the internet

People under 35: get ready to learn. People over 35: get ready for some nostalgia

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Ariane Sherine
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a rotary phone
Rotary dial phones were heavy. Photo by Luke Southern on Unsplash.

When my daughter was about seven, I told her that I was once so bored on a Sunday in the 1980s, I played with a broken tile in the back yard.

She looked at me as though I were crazy: ‘Why didn’t you just use your iPad?!’

Oh, my sweet summer child.

In a similar vein, I had a tweet go viral on…

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