Past vs Modern Leisure

Uhhh back then, people didn't travel around the world for fun and buisness in masses and within a few hours...

I think people in the past spent less time looking at a screen and had other hobbies (like interior decorating) instead.

Sure about the trending part? In past there was much less options what to consume, do, read, watch.

I have a pet theory that people had longer attention spans back then and didn't need constant entertainment to distract them from the present moment. Also they listened to the radio and enjoyed not being out in the cold.

The average person a hundred years ago obviously didn’t have YouTube, or the internet, or GPS phones, or a million other consumer goods we take for granted today as a baseline. That was my point. Whether some middle class people had a model T car or a library card is kind of missing the point I’m making entirely.

People back then had a lot more spare time evidently ...

Your image of the old days is inaccurate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

People were more economical then.

In my experience the older styles media were consumed in "down time" even if it was for a minute or two at work. People (in my memory, I'm 50+yo) did more real life things. There were malls, movie theaters, skating rings, box stores. These were a herald of things to come on the internet.This was also the last days of interesting Popular Mechanics and Scientific American.

Well, you're not wrong about novelty being a much rarer thing in the past but people rarely drove alone in total silence. 8-tracks and cassettes came along eventually but even before then, people listened to the radio which had a wide variety of music, news, sports, and call-in shows. Truckers had CB radios and would talk to other truckers and drivers to pass the time.Those who didn't see much of the world before the last two decades have this impression that everyone was far less c