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  1. @CuriousMagpie
    One thing that I really miss about #TheBeforeTimes is hosting large holiday gatherings, preferably with a great assortment of people who may not have family nearby to spend the time with. My largest gathering was in Vietnam with 20 or more people and I was able to buy a fully-cooked turkey meal from a nearby hotel. The mixing and mingling was delightful.

  2. @timdesuyo I read somewhere that you could be sued (in Japan) if you don't blur people's faces when you take their 'candid' pics in Public. Maybe ONE DAY I'll go to #Japan, so I want to know.

    1. Not being a stickler.
    2. Internet results and comments are often open-ended, so I'm just curious.

    I see the #TheBeforeTimes tag but still curious about the laws nowadays.

  3. Y'all ever think about how weird it is that we used to get -- delivered to our door at no cost -- massive books containing alphabetical lists of the names, phone numbers, and addresses of everyone in our city?

    Everybody just lived doxed all the time?

    What universe was that in?

    #old
    #GenX
    #Xennial
    #TheBeforeTimes
    #phonebooks

  4. I have added the Spell Check ROM to my Psion 3a. It took me a beat to realise that not knowing the word "Internet" was not an error.

    #psion3a #psion #theBeforeTimes

  5. When cigs were 50 cents and Boone's Farm was 89 cents. Kids, ask your parents. #TheBeforeTimes #Slurpees #Schlitz

  6. "And that, children, is what we did before AskMetafilter."

    "When I was a student in the mid-90s, there was a cubicle in one of the University ladies’ toilets that was 'the problem toilet.' It was like a problem page..."

    Great comment by penguin pie on wowenthusiast's question about pre-internet physical bulletin boards.

    ask.metafilter.com/370857/Tell

    #PreInternet #BulletinBoards #history #TheBeforeTimes #communication #ProblemToilet #toilet #funny

  7. Not me working from a coffee shop like it's 2018... 😮 #TheBeforeTimes