Heck, when I learned to fly:

• GPS did not exist

• Class B was a TCA, Class C was an ARSA, Class D was an ATA (I think)

• A 'fancy' panel meant you had 2 navcomms instead of just one. If you had DME, you were some sort of sky god.

• Written tests were...actually written tests, not computerized tests.

• Sometimes you'd actually drive over to the FSS to get an in-person weather briefing

• The hardest part about departing IFR from an uncontrolled field without a decent RCO was the sprint from the payphone (after you'd been given your clearance and void time from FSS) to the aircraft, and then the quick startup and 40-knot taxi to the runway, just so you could make your void time. True story: once at a airport without a working payphone, the guy on the field drove me to his house so we could call FSS and ask for a 15-minute void time, which they gave us.

• Most of the instructors remembered flying the old 4-course radio ranges

• Flying an NDB approach was just something you did every day

And so on, and so forth...