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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1 mo
Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I still buy songs on the iTunes Store
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Doug Says… @deadmanwalks53.bsky.social · 1 mo
The local Librarian was our search engine.
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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1 mo
I tried to use a "card catalogue" as an example and students stared at me like I was an alien
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Doug Says… @deadmanwalks53.bsky.social · 1 mo
Lol!
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Horizon to horizon, nothing but mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @pewtergod.bsky.social · 1 mo
I've ordered tools from the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/b...
Before Folding 30 Years Ago, the Sears Catalog Sold Some Surprising Productswww.smithsonianmag.com The retail giant’s mail-order business reigned supreme for more than a century, offering everything from quack cures to ready-to-build homes
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Joséphine Altzman ✡️ יוספה בתיה @josiebrenda.bsky.social · 1 mo
Ah yes the holiday Wish Book was required reading.
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Horizon to horizon, nothing but mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @pewtergod.bsky.social · 1 mo
It was the paper version of Amazon. Life was much slower back then.
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Michèle Sharik @michelesharik.bsky.social · 1 mo
I know someone who grew up on a Sears catalogue house!
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Michèle Sharik @michelesharik.bsky.social · 1 mo
*in! LOL 😂
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Doug Says… @deadmanwalks53.bsky.social · 1 mo
It was a big book, lol.
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Doug Says… @deadmanwalks53.bsky.social · 1 mo
In 1977 my dear wifey and I ordered a mattress from the Sears catalogue. We were living in Dawson Creek, BC at the time.