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Oh absolutely.

My parents moved to city that they had never been to at about that time. My mom had to call the directory to ask for realtor so they could find some place to live.

It was back when people actually used the phonebook to look up phone-numbers. It is that long ago.

Today almost none of the tech in available. Payphones still exist, but you have to know where they are -- and they are not exactly cheap.

Heck he can't even buy stuff at a supermarket, since those computers are almost certainly wired to send the purchase information back to be mined for data. And that wasn't unheard of back then. Today? Do they even have a directory anymore?



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