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> go downtown to a travel agent

Phones were out, too?

("You kids" should realize that most of the stuff done on the web today was done by mail or phone during most of the XX century, especially in a country as spread out as the US. Ring up the merchant with the order, sing out the credit card, done, was the MO from the 70s to the late 90s.)



I mean, yes. You’d need to go get the paper tickets.

Obviously there were variations on how people would do things and mail order existed but I’m speaking literally, that’s how we used to do it and when the internet came along it got way way better.


> need to go get the paper tickets.

Darn, no mail service either. That's harsh.




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