Remember when you had to actually call a pizza place to order?

I was telling my nephew about this and he looked at me like I had two heads. Back in like 2005, if you wanted a pizza, you had to find the phone number, usually from a flyer stuck to your fridge or the yellow pages website, which was just a list of numbers. You'd call, hope they answered, and then have to shout your address and order over the phone while someone was watching TV in the background. I specifically remember ordering from a place called Tony's in my hometown and the guy would always repeat my address wrong. Now I just tap an app and it's done in 30 seconds, no human interaction at all. It's way easier, but I kind of miss the chaos of it sometimes. Has anyone else got a story about a totally outdated way you used to do something online?

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tarak171mo ago

My first job was at a video store in 2008... we had a physical check-out card for every single movie. The whole system was just a big box of index cards behind the counter. You'd have to find the card for the exact copy of the movie a customer was holding, stamp the due date, and file it under their phone number. It feels like ancient history now.

felix_fox1mo ago

The big box of index cards... man. That's a whole vibe right there. I can almost smell the old paper and that weird stamp pad ink.