People Are Sharing Things That Have Slowly Disappeared Over The Last Two Decades

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“The feeling of being unreachable. Twenty years ago, if you missed a call, that was it. You’d come home to a blinking light on the answering machine or nothing at all. You could vanish for an afternoon and do whatever you wanted. Just existing without anyone knowing where you were. Now, silence is suspicious.”

—phoenicia_townie

“People will literally think you dropped dead and panic. Friends and family will be worried. The idea is so funny to me how some husband could just knock off for the afternoon, and no one batted an eye, and now we practically file a missing persons report, haha.”

—Parking_Country_61