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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean on weekends or during the summer I was told to get out of the house, be with friends, have fun and told to be home either for dinner or by the time the street lights came on and if I wasn’t going to be home in time then to find a phone and call my parents and let them know. Hell I could be like miles/Kilometers from home at any given moment. I could be in a friends house and their parents offered me dinner.

Sounds like what most kids were doing from 300BC up to 1980AD

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why did you stop at 1980? It wasn't until cellphones became so common with kids that things changed. Even the in early 2000s pagers were still more common with kids/teenagers in my experience.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't get my first cell phone until I was in college in like 2002 or 3. Miss that flip phone. In high school no one had a phone and maybe a hand full of kids had pagers.