I suppose it would be mostly practical skills, cooking, fixing things. Usually had to be done by people themselves.

Maybe also mental things like navigating (with or without paper map) and remembering their daily and weekly agendas.

What other things would be a big difference with the people today?

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago

The slide rule thing is real. Some of those guys didn't move to calculators when they came out because they could use them faster than typing.

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