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Old Time Real Estate
Having been raised in a real estate family, I remember what it was like in Olden Times.  Things were really very different.  For example:
1.  MLS.  When I was a child, my Mom sold real estate.  MLS information was distributed by the local board once a week on memeographed sheets that had been hole-punched for a 3 ring binder.  My Mom had me putting the sheets in the ring binder.  Then the board began publishing a book, much like the phone book, with 4 properties to the page.  I still have one of those books.  I use it for a craft glue pad. 
MLS got computerized, perhaps in the late 1980s or early 1990s.  I wasn't directly involved in the business at that point, I was just aware that it was happening.  The database software used was state of the art for the time it was developed, which is to say that it was very primative completely unintuitive.  No pictures were possible.   In our area, there was a really awkward blip with MLS software in which the board switched software.  They went live with the new software and killed off the old one.  The new one didn't work and the ... more

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