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We even used a rotary dial telephone that required an operator to connect the call. These are now back in fashion as retro collectables, by the way. It was a world where we didn’t even have the privacy of our own telephone landline. But there was a thing called a “Party Line”— which was a phone where you could pick up the phone and if nobody in your region was already on a call, you were able to dial another number to connect to the operator. The downside of this though, was that anyone could tune in and listen to
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your conversation. Privacy “on the line” was
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everything. It was a life without social
I am both proud and excited about being here to support the Mumpreneur movement. I grew up on a remote farm, thousands of kilometres from anywhere, in war torn Zimbabwe. It was back in the day where technological advances were colour TV, Walkman’s and CD rom drives ... I’m sure you remember the days when you went to a
a lot less important than online privacy is nowadays. It was a world where men ran businesses and where the social expectation was for women to stay at home and run the household. It was in the 1970s and early 1980s – to get perspective – when our physical world and the surrounding community were media, desktops, mobiles or the internet. What people mastered was the art of communication, planning, being creative, friendships, crafts, and finding purpose.
Fun Fact Graphic: 6 August 1991, exactly twenty-nine years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available.
video store to hire a movie.
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