NO MORE: Remember standing near the landline phone, twirling the code around your fingers as you chatted with a bestie or a sweetie?

Or, in Bradford, not having to dial the entire phone number, but calling 2-6531 would be enough to get you through to The Era’s newsroom?

Waiting until after 7 p.m. to make a long-distance call because the rates were cheaper?

Dialing a rotary phone was a pain, but push buttons didn’t become popular until the 1980s. And then there were the numbers to make your long-distance cheaper, like 10-10-220, and then came touch-tone phones, and cordless phones for home. Mobile phones first came to be in 1983, and the technology seems to change by the minute — Nokia, flip phones, Blackberry, iPhone.

Things we thought would be here forever are less and less common, like calculators, an actual key to a car, overhead projectors, separate remote controls for everything in your home.

We can remember being told in high school that we had to learn math because ‘you won’t have a calculator in your pocket every day.’ We must confess to often working a math problem out in our heads because it might take too long to get out the phone, bring up the calculator app and find the answer.

Reading glasses are another thing that aren’t as necessary. With cell phones, tablets and so on, print size can be increased with little fuss.

We don’t find ourselves trying to see the tiny print in a phone book anymore when we can look up the information online. In fact, us older folks in the newsroom have had to show younger reporters how a phone book works. And the microfilm. And the emergency phones that have rotary dials.