What did you older people do before the internet ?

[ReadyasEver]

As a kid, we were on the move. You had a bike, a football, a basketball, baseball mit and a ball. Took off after breakfast in the morning and came back for dinner. Grab a sandwich at somebody's house for lunch. Built a tree house from swiping wood from everyone's father. Went fishing down at the river or the gravel pit.

 

[Darrenloses]

Football, quad biking, cycling, exploring (lived in the countryside) fishing, playing N64 with 3 mates

 

[MsM3talGamer]

Wrangling dinosaurs and mammoths as well as doing cave paintings.

 

[Kdawg2018]

before the internet and mobile phones you had to tell people where you would be at a certain time and stay there and wait for them and when they were late you thought they died

 

[Volatile]

before the internet and mobile phones you had to tell people where you would be at a certain time and stay there and wait for them and when they were late you thought they died

Lol

 

[Johnnythefox]

We had to wait several days to get our photos of food and selfies developed, and then have to carry them round in a backpack.
We had to go into strange places called shops to buy clothes, shoes, music and most other things.
We'd get drunk and high and discuss if there would ever be a way to do the above at the click of a button! and then laugh at the ridiculous notion of that.
Most of the time was taken up hunting and gathering food, and indulging in something called work.
We'd sit around the fire at night and play parlour games, piano, cross stitching, or make our own soap and candles.
Other times we would assist mater in washing the clothes down by the river.

 

[gingerplum]

We communicated largely via spoken word and without emojis.

 

[Whatshername]

We also called our parents from a phoneboot if we were going to be late.

 

[gingerplum]

We communicated largely via spoken word and without emojis.

Edit: I recently had to help my teenage son with a phone call. He called a public office, and appeared confused.

Mom, he said. There's something wrong with their phone... it's making a weird noise.

Lemme see, I said, calling the number myself.

I then had to explain to my kid what a busy signal is.

 

[Didymus]

I remember walking around with a pager in the mid 80's to receive text messages.

 

[gingerplum]

I remember walking around with a pager in the mid 80's to receive text messages.

In 2010, I had a boss (very old fashioned, behind on technology) who expected everyone in the dept to carry a pager so he could send out a group alert if necessary.

"No," I told him. "This is not 1994, and I am not a drug dealer."

 

[21Neberg]

social media has fucked up so many people's emotions and shit. me included. Thanks to social media everyone is always sharing their best moments, not their worst ones. this only leads to people feeling lonely, for example. I wish instagram, facebook and all them never existed.

This forum can stay though, this forum is a godsent.

 

[Firecaste]

Reminds me of this https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Monty-python-four-yorkshiremen-live-lyrics

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

We got internet when I was 13 so I didn't have to suffer too long. I still played video games though. Prince of Persia was an old favorite, and Leisure Suit Larry was as close as you could get to PC porn. I had no business being a pervert at 11/12 years old, but I was anyway.

I guess back then people had proper social lives and networks that they actively cultivated. You'd see people with little black books and Rolodexes. It seems surreal now. But I tend to think society was far more savvy, interactive and functional than it is today.

 

[Johnnythefox]

 

[21Neberg]

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thanks for sharing that image :) its nice

 

[Jen Erik]

Although the advent of social media has improved my generation, you guys had much less stringest laws/regulations when it came to air travel, buying drugs etc and more importantly, easier to get any job along with credit...

Things were less stringent because there was no internet. The internet, and the information systems that travel across it, has most certainly facilitated the erosion of rights and proliferation of a police state.

(Yes, I realize I am replying to a banned user.)

 

[Othermind]

This thread really solidified my opinion that in this society you only "live" until you're about 30 years old and then you're an out of touch old fart with nothing to look forward to in life.

 

[Mrs.O'Leary'sCow]