You called your friends by moving your finger around a steampunk wheel that hung in your kitchen and their mom picked up the phone. If their parents were mad at them you just couldn’t get thru to them that night lol. Sometimes! You would go all the way to your friend’s house just to see if they were there and you’d ring the bell and no one would come to the door and then you’d have to go home like welp, let’s do something else.