I met my wife on an irc channel in the early 90’s.
I’m at my wife in a department store. She was a cashier. Just for the record, I don’t hit on cashiers in the department store. 
We had Thomas Guides here in Portland as well. Had one in every car and replaced at least one a year. We got our first car with a mapping app about 2005 and stopped buying the guides. Sadly, using Waze all the time means I no longer really have a feel for the physical relationships of different locations.
I still have a road map for the state.
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I’m somewhat of a renegade — as far as this thread is concerned. There are no experiences missing from my life because of technology rather there are experiences that technology has made more useful and prominent.
Reading newspapers — I rarely did that before they were published online. Now I have five tabs permanently open for news sources I trust; occasionally I will open further tabs to other news agencies if one of the perms includes a reference to it.
Music — don’t think that my listening has changed. All the radios I have control over (kitchen, car, bedroom) are permanently tuned to BBC Radio 3 as I prefer classical music to pop pap. Occasionally, as a few minutes ago, I will put a CD into the player-radio in the kitchen and enjoy specific albums (that one today was an Ella Fitzgerald the Gershwin American Song ). Even more rarely I use the family Spotify account to listen to particular genres of music that match the seasons.
Although I never built computer hardware I did used to buy Windows COTS boxdes and turn them into Linux machines. Planning to revive this by using a Raspberry Pi 5 based system as my email server.
I spend as much, if not more, on books as before but it is too easy to buy them from an online bookshop.
At the moment I cannot think a technology that has degraded some aspect of my life. They all enhance it.
…anymore. 
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I just discovered that if on a new line you add enough asterisks to get to 20 characters, they convert to a line.
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Yes! A kindred spirit, though I lean more toward Jazz. 
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Now that made me laugh!! 
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+1
So does underscores ( _ )
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I don’t keep Letterman’s Top Ten List books or B&H catalogs in the bathroom any more.
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13 column analysis pads.
Requesting hard copies of 10-Ks, 10-Qs, Registration Statements, and Bond Indentures and waiting for them to arrive in the mail.
My HP12C and RPN notation. (I still have my 12C and I still try to use RPN on my phone’s calculator.)
Paper reference guides and indices for everything.
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I no longer go to a mall to buy Christmas gifts. I do all my shopping online.
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I put PCalc in RPN mode. It’s the only civilized way to use a calculator. 
EDGAR and other digital financial filings have been a vast improvement for sure.
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Any more…
20 characters
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Great minds and all that
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For me, it’s the experience of going to buy music. I used to look forward to release dates and seeing the usual suspects on the day of release, waiting for music stores to open because there were limited copies.
I met many friends in those queues, talking about our favorite music. After swapping phone numbers, we’d all get together and go out to see the music.
Music streaming has taken the joy out of music releases for me (although I still wake up with a smile when I know new music is released!). Now, to make up for not having record stores, I make sure I go to at least one music festival a year to meet people who share my musical taste. So, we adapt.
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Funny you should mention that … I am helping a friend’s wife (my friend has gone into mid-level Alzheimer’s) basically sell all of his tools etc. I found an arduino uno and a breadboard and misc. related cables, LED’s, etc. I think I’m going to bring that home with me. I also found a Raspberry Pi 3B to go with the 2 Pi’s I already have. Now I just need to figure out what to do with them.
Still, nothing like my old HeathKit Ham radio I managed to put together when I was 15-16…
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That is always sad. I’m sorry for your friend and for you. I’m sure you are a help to him.
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