Rotary phones on a short cord, no voice mail (it just rang and rang), black and white TV, 13 channels for VHF and 50something? for UHF (or maybe the other way around), record player in a huge cabinet to play 16/33/45/78s, no AC, library books with a card in a pocket that got stamped with a due date, library cards with your name typed on it, running around the neighborhood and in and out of friends’ houses for hours, hearing the bell that meant YOU had to go home, bathtub with feet and no shower head, putting a bag of ice on the thermometer in our 3rd floor apt. of an 1800s house because we were freezing, listening to the radio for school closings, paying cash for everything and when you ran out having to go to the bank between 9-3 to withdraw more with your passport book, paying a penny for a piece of candy, a dime for a phone call from a booth on the corner, having to ask for unleaded regular instead of leaded regular gas…
In Jr. High I played on my mom’s work computer when she worked as a secretary, although she still use a typewriter and correction fluid. I first used a computer in college, on an Apple IIe with two 5.25″ disks (one for the program). Dot matrix printers, form feed paper, form feed paper jamming and having to start your print job over from the beginning and wasting all that paper. Buying hard tickets for a concert that were kept in a drawer, one complete set for each performance.