Do I remember life before the Internet?

Do I what?

I did the majority of my living – along with my family – in all sorts of places that were remote. That was back in the days of :

Emergency traffic by telegram at around $.60 for 12 words.

Transmission of telegrams from the Post Office and dispatch points that were quite public.

All mail sent by road with days and weeks taken for delivery in response.

Banking transactions if they were available had to

be conducted manually.

Long-distance telephone calls, called prank calls, cost several cents per minute, And we are often limited to calls of no more than three minutes.

It was all so interesting. Stories I could tell about what it was like a legion – and in some places I have published comparisons.

But one good thing about not having the Internet was that social media, being non-existent, was not the bane and often the evil of what it is today.