Before the days of encrypted cloud storage and thumbprint-activated lock screens, we kept all of our top-secret information in archaic storage systems called diaries.
They didn't connect to the Internet, you couldn't play games with them and you weren't constantly being badgered to back them up.
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Time Trabble's Mikey Heller paints a picture of what life was like way back when in his comic "Hacker."
Credit: Mikey Heller
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