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Are you sure the offside wasn't around? I heard this a lot growing up but with some research I've seen that it's always been present. The latest change made the attacking player on the same level as the defending player onside, but it's always been offside for 150 years or so if you had less than 2 players in front of you.
What definitely changed but I can't really estimate its effect on goals scored is that GKs were allowed to pick up the ball any time. Removing it definitely increased mistakes by GKs so it should inflate scoring slightly.
Damn, you wasn't alive by then to watch footboll?