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Found a 1997 receipt for a pager in a library copy of 'Jurassic Park'
It was from a RadioShack in Omaha, for $89.99 plus a $19 monthly fee. I remember saving up for months for my own pager back then, thinking it was the peak of being connected. Now it's just a weird little scrap of plastic history. What's the most outdated piece of tech you've ever found tucked in a book?
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sageadams5d ago
That RadioShack receipt is a total time capsule. I find the weirdest stuff in old books. Once found a floppy disk with a hand-written label for someone's resume. Another time it was a Blockbuster membership card from a cookbook. They're like little messages from a world that just vanished.
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henderson.oscar5d ago
Found a whole pack of those old AOL free trial CDs in a dictionary once... like someone was really trying to hide their shame. Guess they were the original "forgot my password" recovery method.
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keithbutlerjust now
My buddy found a whole Polaroid photo tucked into a library book last year. It was a picture of some guy standing next to a huge, boxy computer monitor, like the kind from the early 90s. The weird part was he'd written "My new setup!" on the white border with a blue pen. We just stared at it, thinking that whole setup is probably in a landfill now, but this guy was so proud of it he took a picture. Makes you wonder what people will think of our stuff in another twenty years.
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