“Automatic transmission, power windows, A/C, and a radio in your car. Any or all of those.”

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I've grabbed responses from these threads 1, 2, and 3. 

"Gave away a 60-inch plasma for free a few years ago. All I remember is that thing would get hot and was heavy as hell lol." 

"I really like using my Garmin GPS. It has a bigger screen than my phone, so it’s more convenient and works regardless of cell reception, as it is satellite-based."

"Old and my very first car had NONE of the mentioned items. I had to carry a transistor radio with me, and you couldn't hear that while driving with the windows down because, well, no A/C."

"PS2 was the cheapest DVD player on launch. Just so happened to play games. The PS3 was the cheapest Blu-ray player at launch. Again, it just happened to play games. I knew many people that had the systems purely for the video players." 

"Direct calling was too expensive. So I had to use one of those calling cards. The quality of call was terribly distorted. Skype was available and free. But my family over there didn't have good enough internet access." 

"Many rural properties wouldn’t have had it well into the 50s." 

"Depends on which country you are from. It was widely available in india and Bangladesh. Unrefined sugar was poor people's food." 

"My XC90 still has a corded car phone; my teenage daughters are amazed by it."

"I remember my dad’s brand new 2005 Nissan maxima could hold 6 CDs at a time and smoothly autoplay from one to the next while driving. It was one of his favorite features to show off whenever driving someone in his new car lol, and it was seriously impressive."

"That was pricey due to being an after-construction addition. But of course everything is WiFi, and the WiFi is really fast these days, so you don’t really need Ethernet." 

"Yup, when I went away to school (only 1h30m from home), I got a long-distance package on the house phone line I shared with the four guys I lived with, so I could call my then GF. It was $200 a month for 100 minutes of long distance on a landline."