im curious here, im in my 30s rn, ive heard in the old days some people have differents way of communicating. like pager ( if im not wrong) SMS,MMS, although ive experienced SMS once back in my day to text my crush or my parents sometimes, but before that, how was your way to build your communication with your relatives, either your family or partner?
pardon my english, correct me if im wrong thanks, and please tell me your story, i want to read it
Well… in my experience it never went well. Every teenage couple where one or both went to Uni ended up breaking up before the year was out. SMS was relatively expensive in the 90’s/00’s, as was broadband - a lot of folk were on dial-up internet, which was also paid by the minute. So if money was a factor you’d go online, download your emails, disconnect, then draft all your replies, reconnect and send.
In fact, email was probably the preferred non-urgent medium between my peers until 2008 or so. SMS was more of a “hey, we’re headed to the bar now” kinda thing.
Letters were getting rarer and rarer - but one particular friend I exchanged actual postal letters a few times a year until 2012 or so.
As for family, my mum called me every week, and I never went more than 6 weeks between visits back home. Still don’t.