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Comment by rapnie | Hacker News Reader

i survived the era before mobile.. it wasn't that scary :)

Same here, but it had its own set of annoyances. Sitting at home waiting for a phone call, or trying to coordinate meeting up, particularly spur of the moment, was a huge PITA.

Even with cell phone annoyances, I prefer the cell phone world over the pre-cell phone world.

I would go back in a heartbeat.

I have to laugh at some these posts. I also lived in a world without cell phones and I (and the rest of the world) did just fine. Turning off your phones at a concert is not a big deal at all.

The irony, despite my prior comments, I don't have an issue with turning my phone off and keeping it with me. I do have an issue with being locked away from it or have it taken away by someone you can't trust.

Yondr is a system which locks your phone in a pouch which you put in your pocket. It is not taken away from you.

You are still prevented access from it.

Yes, that is the purpose of the system.

Indeed. Pleas to "terrorism" and "think of the children" on a topic of simply unable to access your phone for a couple of hours.

HN has experienced a palpable drop in quality recently.

Commenters have said that about HN for years.

You probably also survived an era without baby monitors. Doesn't mean life isn't unconditionally better with them.

I remember a baby crying for 20 minutes before someone noticed. Nothing happenend.

Of course. The ones who didn't aren't able to comment here.

Speaking of scary, check out this breed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913342

> Having lived through the horrors of the pre-smartphone days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913665

> I remember life before smartphones. I remember boredom. It sucked. I would never go back to the agonizing pain of sitting in the DMV for three ours or standing in line at a grocery store just for some "missed moment" where I study the shitty tabloids in line or DoT pamphlets.

> Romanticising the past is not new. Whether it's television, hot showers, or smartphones, there will always be cynics who wish a simpler life on the rest of us.

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