20 things way harder to do before the Internet (OT) (Or is it?)

I don't usually make a habit of posting about articles consisting of lists of things (people can get that sort of thing for themselves, if they want it), but every now and then I do see such an article that really does make one stop and think.

I found a list that reminds me just how profoundly the web has changed everything, and altered forever how we do so many things.

Maybe it's because I'm one of us old enough to remember the pre-computer, pre-Internet, times, when almost all of the things we can do by computer today, and probably take for granted now, would have been thought science fiction just a few decades, or even years, ago.

The article below cites twenty significant areas where the web has so dramatically made for such enormous change in how we do some pretty important things.

And note how my thread title even suggests a relevance to how we deal with PCa. If you do read through the article, noting all the areas of change, think about just how much harder it was in pre-Internet days to do things like: gather information, make appointments, contact people, keep medical records, buy health items, or even get a map to help you find the doctor's office, before the arrival of the Internet.

So perhaps it's good now and then to be reminded of just how significantly the web has changed things, and, frankly, made so many things so much easier to do.

Bearing in mind that the web, the practical form of it that we use now, is in reality only about thirty years old. (Is it just me, or does it seem like it's been around so much longer?) (And if it's doing all that it does now, how much more amazing will its power to help us be in the future?)

And if someone thinks "Well, that's certainly a pretty obvious thing to write about, that the web has changed a lot of things, everybody knows that," then maybe that thought even supports my point: that the web has changed so much, and improved so many things, and the new world it has made seems so much the norm now, that maybe we do tend to forget (or never knew) just how different (slower? more tedious? more error-prone?) the old one really was.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/did-you-know/20-things-that-were-way-harder-before-the-internet/ss-bbudzbh?ocid=spartandhp

My college kids and I like all kinds of music. Told them the other day it was hard to find albums that were not top 40 back then. At times me and my buddies would jump in a car and drive all over town or into the next state trying to find a album or two we never heard of. The kids thought that was the coolest thing and would love to do those types of things. On the flip side, not sure what I would have done without the internet for health and business needs. Have to find that balance........ Logo, we need a balance paragraphical insight isim on what you are eyeing on the other side!

When I was a sailor Vietnam in 1968 communication with my girlfriend, parents, sisters was by very slow snail mail. These days deployed military can be in nearly real-time contact via, email, text, skype etc. Though that could have a downside if the folks at home get anxious if you don't send or reply when expected.
Jim