How did we ever run conventions...

[gerisullivan]

...without email, cell phones, and Google?

I wonder what next set of Real World innovations will make convention-running this much easier again...and when....

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[marahsk.livejournal.com]

We wasted a lot of time and effort writing and mailing snail-mail letters and waiting for a response, or paying for expensive phone calls; wasted hours walking around looking for people, by which time the problem was already solved but you didn't know that; and we did without lots of cool stuff because there was no easy way to find it.

People coped before telephones, cars, and the printing press, too...