Phonecards- remember those?
Summer 1993 If you are reading this and nodding, then like me, you are probably old. If you are googling 'what are phonecards?' you probably are not old. Plot twist- I am not old, at the point of writing I am 38- but when things that I remember are no longer in our culture and way of life, it does have a habit of making me feel a little bit... well... old! So phonecards... In a misty time... a time before smartphones... a time before Google... a time before iPads... an altogether simpler time... we had something call phone boxes. Obviously you have heard of phoneboxes. We still have them now, although I really don't think anyone uses them- I haven't used them in easily 20 years. But when these were in common use- somewhere back in the late 90s- what happened when you didn't have any change to push into the telephone so you could ring your mum to come and pick you up when you were stranded miles from home? Well... we had something called a phonecard! These were pre...