Would people who have lived through the 1970s-2000s go back to old tech?

[Oliverlogan263]

Would people who have lived through the 1970s-2000s go back to old tech using

Rotary Telephones

Brick Cellphones

Payphones

Flip Phones

Than the iPhones

Or no?

Yes

No

[WhiteSteve]

I am GLAD you asked, haha.

YES. A thousand times, YES.

Life was slower back then, because it had to be. One of the number one things I hate about this day and age is the EXTREME increase in expectations of communication and contact. Everybody knows everyone is on their phone all the damn time. There’s no “oh, I didn’t see you called/texted….”, everyone knows that’s bullshit 90% of the time, lmao.

It used to be that I could leave the house for the day, go to school, go to my after school job, go out and do whatever teenagers do all day when I was free, whatever…. if someone wanted to get a hold of me, you had to call my house and hope I was home. If you were lucky, we’d have an answering machine. Sometimes we didn’t. So you can ring and ring and ring…. no one’s picking up. If it was my job looking for me to fill in, tough bananas. If I instructed my parents to tell them I wasn’t home, they’d do it. You couldn’t reach me unless I wanted to be reached. Nowadays they can just be like “we were calling your cell all day, what the fuck?” Now I’d have to make up a story, and they’d know it’s bullshit, and they’d resent me for it.

I very much like to control the intake of contact and respond on my own time, without the other person on the other end bugging out about it. If it’s super urgent I’ll call you right back. Dumb stuff, I’ll holler when I holler✌️That was totally achievable back then. The 80s and 90s were awesome. There’s definitely stuff from today that I’d miss, but it was a simpler time just with more clutter of stuff you needed that was a physical thing and not covered by something digital. I think the entire world would be better off without social media too, lmfao

[FunkyMonkee]

Apparently, this is all about phones.
Some of it, I wouldn't mind going back to if for no other reason that, it'd be a lot easier to find parts for it and people that know how to fix it.

[Nikki1989]

We have some vintage stereo equipment simply because they are vastly superior to anything that is made now.

[DizzyDesii]

Im a 90s baby and not crazy about all this new shit but some of the stuff you posted is hella old lmao

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

The old maytag wringer washers sure

[Iron_Man]

I like those phones I like that landline in the first picture and that payphone

[NathanDavis]

I could... but I would not want to