Before the internet...
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- davey_g
Imagine not being able to surf the internet, to pass the time at work or be inspired?
What the hell did people do? I'm guessing drinking or drugs?
But, what do YOU think?
- Jaline0
I was thinking about this the other day. It wasn't that long ago that we didn't have the internet.
:O
8O
Good thing the internet was invented around the time I was born.
- gruntt0
i used to go outside and play.
but i was just a kid, what did i know.
porn was more exciting then as it was less attainable.
- Engage_London0
..and you only ever found it in bushes
- davey_g0
Before the internet, porn was in a black garbage bag underneath a neighborhood skateboard ramp...
- mayo0
someone once invented "books" but they only have an underground following now.
- gruntt0
lol - all very true.
- TheTick0
I used to watch porn on VHS tapes and listen to music on Vinyl and then have my friends call my brick sized pager and then I had to run around and find a Public Telephone to call them.
Ah, memories...
- gruntt0
"back when i was a kid TV was called Books."
my favorite quote from The Princess Bride.
- mayo0
F-word gruntt! now "anybody want a peanut" in Andre the Giants voice will be in my head today! >:(
- Jaline0
Well, let's see. I read lots of books and watched both Sesame Street, Care Bears, Lamb Chops Play A-Long, and Under the Umbrella Tree excessively, while eating and sleeping all day. I did travel more back then, since my parents didn't have lots of kids to worry about.
Anyway, that all happened within the first five or six years of my life. After the 1990's, it was still TV with some internet added in to my schedule.
- scarabin0
watch bravo for hours waiting for some indie film sex or sit around drawing and writing
also video games and a lot of reading
- davey_g0
I'm kind of thinking of the work scenario...it's so fun to surf and email while working.
Seems like pre-internet I was always going to the library for "research", which meant maybe a quick stop by my house for a tiny bong rip.
- TheTick0
Before the ..internet? Oh which time do you speak? There was time before the internet? Heretic!!!
- davey_g0
My first email account was in 1998, same for the beginning of my first solo internet experience. I thought I was in "Wargames" or something.
- seed0
I wonder what I would do for a living if the web wasn't created. It got big after I graduated high school and every dime I have ever made has been from web related work. Good timing I guess.
- seed0
I can't imagine mailing letters like emails or having to call someone for every message. Going to a library for research and digging through books with no search function sounds rough too.
- cosmo0
someone once invented "books" but they only have an underground following now.
mayo
(Aug 25 05, 08:29)lmao...awesome.
- Engage_London0
thanks Al Gore
- Jaline0
Well, nothing can replace a book, but the internet is quite amazing. I got my first email account in 1999 (I was about 13) when Hotmail was getting really huge. My little sister got her first email address when she was 10 or 11. Now they have little cellphones for kids as young as 6 years old. It's crazy.
"The printed page is obsolete. Information isn't bound up anymore. It's an
entity. The only reality is virtual. If you're not jacked in, you're not alive.""Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell. Musty and, and, and, and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, is, it ... it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um... smelly."
- scarabin0
i recently printed all of my digital journals and handbound them.
'cause books rock.