I was 8 years old in 1969.
AM radio was dominated by top-40 music--mostly rock and rock-pop, with a few crooners like Tom Jones. FM had "hard rock," "acid rock"--album-oriented rock. There were some news stations. There was no such thing as "talk radio." There were no "shows" on the radio, though, like there were in the 40s and 50s.
Touch-tone phones existed, but were quite expensive to "rent" (one didn't "buy" phones in 1969). Rotary phones were, by far, the most common phones. There were phones in "phone booths" on the street; you had to have change to make a phone call. "Long distance" calls were a big deal, even something of a special occasion. You couldn't take the phone outside to make a call. You probably couldn't even take the phone out of the room where it was installed. There were no wireless phones. Answering machines were rare--used only the by the rich and by corporations.
Computers were things that were the size of small bedrooms.
On TV, we just had maybe 4 to 6 "regular channels," and a few UHF channels which were very difficult to get, and were snowy when you did get them.
There were many hippies around. Some of them smelled, some of them didn't. People used to sit around, play guitar, and sing folk songs. People had "record players" where they played "records" which were either "singles" or "albums." Men had to wear suits to work; women dresses, or blouses/skirts. Most women, actually, still stayed home to raise the kids.
Kids in school still had to dress pretty formally. No dungarees/jeans, no pants for girls. No tee-shirts--polo shirts were frowned upon as well--we had to wear button-down shirts.
There were some electric typewriters, and some manual typewriters, depending upon how rich you, or a company, was. No word-processors, no personal computers. The data-entry operator was usually a "key-punch" operator. Electric calculators were quite expensive; very few people had them. Adding machines were more common. Sometimes, in math class, we even used abacuses. Instead of fax machines, we had teletype machines; only companies used them--there was no such thing as a "home" teletype machine.
All in all, if a kid was bored, either he went out and played, played pinball in a candy store, played with toys in his house, watched TV, listened to the radio, or read books. No internet, no tablets, no computers. No video games. Most of the time, kids didn't have TV's in their rooms.
