And those of us who remember 5 cent pay phones remember a world with no internet, almost no homes with telephones, no TV (it wasn't introduced commercially until 1946) - but we listened to the radio, we read books (usually from the library, if you read a lot), we actually talked to neighbors and friends and, when we were young, made our own toys. (If there are trees, there are bows and arrows. And I learned, from a then-elderly neighbor, how to make stone points for my arrows, and how to find feathers and fletch them. I was the only 5 year old who could shoot straight.)
Then I got into college - and we studied vacuum tubes. Transistors? Those were little toys that would never amount to much.
(But today I carry my cellphone in a holster on my belt. Just try to find a pay phone.)