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		yazboo on Feb 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain It’s a miracle people suffered transit at all in the years before the invention of handheld networked devices.

Nextgrid on Feb 24, 2019 | [–]

Weren’t people reading books/newspapers before, or playing paper-based games (crossword, sudoku, etc)?

In most public transports the noise would make any conversation impossible anyway even if it would be considered acceptable and normal.

gukov on Feb 25, 2019 | [–]

Boredom leads to inventions. Transit must've led to so many great ones.

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