Life before smartphones: 'It was OK to be vague about things'
by Rachel Obordo and Guardian readers from Technology | The Guardian on (#QNT8)
From underwater seances to scrabbling for 10ps for the payphone, readers share their memories on how things have changed since the birth of the smartphone
My childhood was completely separate from the constant intrusion of cell phones. What I remember best is the freedom. The gaggle of girls (five of us) who lived on our circle drive would get together and play. We held seances underwater, camped out in the backyard, built a town for barbies in a spare room, put on plays for the grownups to watch. We were free.