why did older cars have such long antennae when newer cars either don’t have one at all or a tiny nub?

Question

why did older cars have such long antennae when newer cars either don’t have one at all or a tiny nub?

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Answer 1

Newer antennas are designed better, but they aren’t always shorter

Older antennas were often a piece of steel, while this may work it wasn’t always very efficient

Newer antennas have windings that catch signal better, it may appear shorter too and in some cases they are

The winding of the antenna allows the antenna to target specific frequencies, for example 100Mhz = 2.99CM or 1.18 inches