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rolling out changes to its storage policy for Facebook Live videos . So if you've ever broadcasted and shared a Facebook Live video on your page and want to keep it, you'll need to go into Facebook and save it to your computer. Featured Local Savings Featured Local Savings 22 Ways Life Was Different in WNY Before Facebook Here are 22 examples of how different life was before the internet. Gallery Credit: Kadie Daye 1. Amazon was just a river. Google Maps 1. Amazon was just a river. If you remember life before the existence of the internet, simple terms and statements have changed to mean something else entirely. 2. You taped music off the radio. Getty Images 2. You taped music off the radio. Remember spending hours waiting for your favorite song to play on the radio, just so you could scramble to press the record button on your cassette player? And then of course the DJ would talk through the last few seconds of the song... 3. You used a map and asked for directions. Getty Images 3. You used a map and asked for directions. Do you think you could get to your destination today if you had to look at a map to find your way? GPS makes it so much easier to navigate to your destination. Back then, when someone invited you to their house, you had to write out the directions on a piece of paper, with weird landmarks that would indicate to you when you needed to make a turn or go straight. 4. You had to leave the house to socialize. Getty Images 4. You had to leave the house to socialize. Now, all your friends are a click away from a Facetime or a Zoom call. 5. Pre-internet Tinder dating was very different. Getty Images 5. Pre-internet Tinder dating was very different. If you have never had to pass a "Do you like me? Check yes or no" note in class, consider yourself blessed. That's a whole different form of anxiety right there. 6. Encyclopedias and the library were our Google. Getty Images 6. Encyclopedias and the library were our Google. Before the internet existed, if you wanted to find information, you had to use library books and encyclopedias to manually search up the information by hand. Fun, right? 7. Web design used to only refer to a spiders web. Getty Images 7. Web design used to only refer to a spider's web. Think about how many jobs would have never existed without the creation of the internet. Web design is one of them. 8. Wait at home for phone calls. Getty Images 8. Wait at home for phone calls. Most people had one phone number, and it happened to be the same phone number for every person in your household, meaning you had to share your time on the phone. If you were waiting for a boy to call you, it always seemed like someone else in the house was on the phone, and then the caller would hear a busy signal. No call waiting or voicemail -- they simply just heard the busy signal. And if you weren't home when someone called, the phone would just ring and ring. By the 80s, we finally had answering machines, which was kind of like a giant box that acted as a present-day voicemail that you could play out loud to hear left messages. 9. Wasting time in the office was very obvious. Getty Images 9. Wasting time in the office was very obvious. If you procrastinate in the office today, you could at least argue that you were doing something on your computer, even if you were just playing solitaire. Before the internet, office desks didn't always come with a desktop computer, so if you were daydreaming, your boss would know. 10. Social media posts were actually pinned to a real wall. Getty Images 10. Social media posts were actually pinned to a real wall. If you wanted to post information for the general public to see, you actually needed to pin a hardcopy piece of paper to a wall. And yes, sometimes people would give you distasteful feedback, with doodles or scribbles on the hardcopy you posted. 11. Mobile gaming was very different. Getty Images 11. Mobile gaming was very different. When mobile phones first came out, it was unfathomable for pretty much everyone that you could play games on them, but when that first Nokia came out with games like "Snake," on the device, the gaming world had only just started to change. 12. Buying physical copies of songs. Getty Images 12. Buying physical copies of songs. If you wanted to hear a song badly enough, you would go to the store and buy a physical copy. You couldn't look it up on Spotify or YouTube just to listen to it. If you wanted to read a comic book but your friend wouldn't let you borrow theirs, guess what? You had to go to a comic book store and buy it. 13. Books were used for entertainment. Getty Images 13. Books were used for entertainment. Not only did we use books as a way to inform ourselves on things we may not know the answer to, people also read books as a form of entertainment. That was the only way to enter a mythological world before video games. 14. Multiplayer games needed a table. Getty Images 14. Multiplayer games needed a table. Remember meeting up with your friends to play board games? During the 70s to 90s, board games became so popular, until the internet really took off. Now it's somewhat rare to see people play board games with their friends. 15. Trolls were mythical creatures. Getty Images 15. Trolls were mythical creatures. And that's all they were. Before the internet, people did not go around calling each other "trolls." 16. People used to send letters, not emails. Getty Images 16. People used to send letters, not emails. I still send letters, but not as often as we used to. The process of sending someone a letter could take days, and you could never be sure if the receiver read your letter. Now, we have read receipts, so that makes it pretty easy to know if someone got your message. 17. Get movies at the video stores. Getty Images 17. Get movies at the video stores. Remember the good ole days of VCR? I think I still have mine at home. If you missed a movie that you wanted to see in the theater, you had to wait a few months until it came out on video where you could rent it from a video store, like Blockbuster or Family Video. Then you could pop the movie into your VCR, watch it, rewind it after you watch it, and return the movie before its due date. 18. Selfies in the 90s did exist, but it was an elaborate process. Getty Images 18. Selfies in the 90s did exist, but it was an elaborate process. If you wanted to take a selfie decades ago, you either needed a Polaroid camera or a combination of a GameBoy, Game Boy Camera, and Game Boy Printer setup. It was an extensive process just to take a selfie that you couldn't even post online because, well, the internet did not exist. 19. Change your phone numbers whenever you move. Getty Images 19. Change your phone numbers whenever you move. Now, you can keep your same phone number for however long you want, but if you ever moved homes before the internet existed, you had to get a new phone number. It was annoying because people never knew how to get in touch with you because, as we mentioned, social media didn't exist back then. 20. Wait for our favorite television shows to come on. Getty Images 20. Wait for our favorite television shows to come on. All of the TV shows that ran on TV had a certain prime time slot in which they would air. It would be from 8 to 10 pm on weeknights after most people had finished eating dinner and got comfortable on their couch to watch some TV. When the VCR finally came out, you could record these shows on a VHS tape and play them back later, but programming for the day would eventually run out, and you could be staring at a black screen if you attempted to watch TV before 6 am. Now, we use streaming services like Netflix, HBO, Disney+, and we don't have to wait all day for our favorite show to come on. 21. Use address and phone books. Getty Images 21. Use address and phone books. If you wanted to send a letter to someone or call a friend, you had to look that up in your address book (for the address) and the yellow pages (for their phone number). 22. Write notes by hands. Getty Images 22. Write notes by hands. Before the internet existed, you didn't have a cell phone to add a new contact when you met someone at the roller rink. You had to write out their number by hand on a piece of paper. The same thing goes for taking notes in school. Typing your class notes was never an option growing up; you had to write everything out by hand. 22 Ways Life Was Different in WNY Before Facebook Here are 22 examples of how different life was before the internet. Gallery Credit: Kadie Daye 1. Amazon was just a river. Google Maps 1. Amazon was just a river. If you remember life before the existence of the internet, simple terms and statements have changed to mean something else entirely. 2. You taped music off the radio. Getty Images 2. You taped music off the radio. Remember spending hours waiting for your favorite song to play on the radio, just so you could scramble to press the record button on your cassette player? And then of course the DJ would talk through the last few seconds of the song... 3. You used a map and asked for directions. Getty Images 3. You used a map and asked for directions. Do you think you could get to your destination today if you had to look at a map to find your way? GPS makes it so much easier to navigate to your destination. Back then, when someone invited you to their house, you had to write out the directions on a piece of paper, with weird landmarks that would indicate to you when you needed to make a turn or go straight. 4. You had to leave the house to socialize. Getty Images 4. You had to leave the house to socialize. Now, all your friends are a click away from a Facetime or a Zoom call. 5. Pre-internet Tinder dating was very different. Getty Images 5. Pre-internet Tinder dating was very different. If you have never had to pass a "Do you like me? Check yes or no" note in class, consider yourself blessed. That's a whole different form of anxiety right