By Sheldon Goldfarb, AMS Archivist, the AMS Archives team and the AMS MarCom team
If you had been at UBC in 1949, you would have been lining up outside, in-person, to get into the old Armoury building (this continued until 1987). You might even have to go building to building, scurrying across campus, and it might not be done in one day!
Here’s the 1986 version, this time in the War Memorial Gym.
Once inside, you would go table to table, maybe meeting your prof-to-be who would be there with forms for you to fill out to get into the class you wanted.
After filling out forms and waiting in line, you get your picture taken, presumably for an ID card.
Don’t forget to pay your fees!
People back in the 60s suggested registration by snail mail, that didn’t happen. In 1988, we got registration by phone with old-fashioned landlines with touchpads. You’d punch in your student number and your course numbers!
By the mid-90’s people became frustrated with Telereg. By 2001, Telereg was gone and we’ve had online registration ever since!
