Things that have disappeared since people got phones

[BePearlKoala]

I'll go first

1. The Bermuda triangle
2. UFO sightings
3. Paranormal activity

Some of us still do that!

Free weekly local newspapers
The cinema listings on the front of the building so you can see what's on. Maybe not totally obselete, but they've gone around here since the cinemas went "deluxe" (I keep forgetting to go and look up what's on then miss potentially interesting films)

All sorts of debates, you know where you’re all trying to remember who played a role years ago/scored the winning goal etc etc. Now someone just whips out their phone in 2 minutes to fact check. I tell my kids all the time that when we were kids if someone told us a ‘fact ‘ we just believed them, nothing got fact checked!

Catalogues...

Journalism. Buying a newspaper and being sure the piece is true, well thought out and well written by a human being.

Knowing your way about. Went to London and it was full of people holding their phones out and following directions. Fuckihg weird. No one was talking.

Made sure dc can read a map and check it before we go. We do a lot of things the old way, in our lives:)

Knowing what's important and what is boring self centred bollocks.

The ability to navigate along the pavement without people crashing into me. Honestly the sheer number of people who are scrolling on their phones whilst walking along is astounding. I hate it.

Both those are still around where I live.

Punctuality.

Can't see how?
You mean you use an old camera with film.

For decades I believed the person who told me, sometime in the mid 80s, that Joy Division's Ian Curtis committed suicide by standing on a block of ice in front of a plug in electric fire. I only found out much later that this was untrue, and even more recently that that scenario was actually depicted on the original cover of "Can't Stand Losing You" by The Police. I'll never know if the misinformant had told me a deliberate untruth, or if they had simply had the lie passed onto them from someone else, and so on, and so on... 🤷‍♀️

Manners

Yes, and so do lots of other people, including some young people.