{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"clayinthecarpet's status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-13 17:33:27 UTC","author_name":"clayinthecarpet","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/clayinthecarpet","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3103635","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/31170\" class=\"url\" title=\"Colby\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">dropsterdash<\/span><\/a><\/span> Everything was slower pace back then. Hell, you still had party lines on phones...and every phone was a rotary! To say nothing of communications as a general subject. Letters were pretty much the only way other than pay phone and home phone to contact people. Yeah, everything was much, much slower...Even news broadcasts."}