Imagine a mother’s life without mobile phones and the internet. Some of us would know from how it was in our own childhood days.

From the office, moms would only be able to check on the kids via landline. Now she can just text yaya or her kids, or even check on them through a security webcam hooked up to the net.

If kids went out with our friends, parents will just have to pray that the kids will be safe where they are going, and that they remember to call home to tell them they are okay. The kids would even have to look for a landline just so they can call home. Now parents and kids can just send a text message, parents can just call their kids anytime, or send them a bbm or tweet.

When out in the mall, if family members had to go to different places or do things separately, they would have to set a time and place on when to meet up. “Let’s meet back here in an hour. If you come here and there’s no one here yet, just wait, don’t leave or else we might lose each other. Okay? Okay?”

Now, they can just say “Okay, let’s just text each other when we’re done. See ya.”

It’s easy to take all these for granted, now that cellphones, text, instant messaging, the internet is a normal part of everyday life.

But then, when the service you are hooked up with is inefficient, and the network you have is not reliable, then you are forced to do a sudden, harrowing time travel to the past, right?
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