I had to laugh the other day. My 10 year old daughter was explaining to me a device she saw on TV. She said it went tap, tap, tap and the paper was in this thing that went to one side and a bell would go off. At that point, the user pushed the paper holder to the other side and started tap, tap, tap again. I fell off my chair....I said it was a typewriter honey. :rotfl: This is what I used in college but I was ahead of the game. It was a Smith Corona and electric
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TV, we had about 10 stations that came in good with the rabbit ears. Yes, cartoons were for Saturday morning. However, I did get to watch the Three Stooges before school. Cable did not show up until I was about 14 years old.
I could go into the druggist and get my Mom cigarettes without being ID'd. It was $1.00 for two packs of cigarettes. However, model glue was a different story. Mom and Dad had to be called by the store owner if kids were buying model glue. Apparently the stuff was darn potent back then if sniffing it was your thing.
The internet was a group of books called encyclopedias. A guy would sell sets from door to door.
There are numerous others but most covered in the first post.