12 Skills Teens Had in the '70s That Today's Kids Will Never Understand
12 Skills Teens Had in the '70s That Today's Kids Will Never Understand
Adjusting the Rabbit Ears
Developing Photos Blind
Driving a Three on the Tree
Fixing a Tangled Cassette
Knowing The Time
Manual Information Retrieval
Reading a Newspaper Classified
Recording the Perfect Mixtape
The Art of the Rotary Phone
The Collect Call Trick
Using a Payphone in Public
Using the Thomas Guide for navigation
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The experience of growing up during the 1970s resembled an enormous survival game which lacked any available assistance. Teens from that time period used their "analog superpowers" to control their daily activities because they did not have access to smartphones and GPS technology. The abilities which people used for daily work at that time served as independence medals which current digital natives will find both strange and remarkable.
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