Before the internet...
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- kyl30
lots of biking and surfing, those were the days
- paraselene0
darlin, i reckon if it's your internet friends (who can't see you) saying it, then it's a compliment!
- Jaline0
:)
It's funny how many people seem to forget how old I really am. Gives me the motivation to be immature once in a while.
- blaw0
that cracked me up when you posted it.
anytime someone says something to you like, "you're how old!?!", it reminds me of that.
- Jaline0
yes, I was born in 1986. Should I take that as a compliment?
- blaw0
my favorite jaline post of all time was in reference to 1987...
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haha, I was 1.
Jaline
(Jun 6 05, 07:05)
- determinedmoth0
I got my first email account in 1999 (I was about 13)
Jaline
(Aug 25 05, 09:08)Fuck off. I took you for at least 30 something.
- davey_g0
My first full-blown Flash experience was (Eye4U) http://www.eye4u.com ...I was so mezmorized (+ learning how to do animated GIFs at the time)...I thought I had found a portal to the future with this animation and music.
- JazX0
you must be pretty young. I didn't use the Internet at work circa 1990.
- scarabin0
i recently printed all of my digital journals and handbound them.
'cause books rock.
- 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"The printed page is obsolete.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."
- Engage_London0
thanks Al Gore
- cosmo0
someone once invented "books" but they only have an underground following now.
mayo
(Aug 25 05, 08:29)lmao...awesome.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- TheTick0
Before the ..internet? Oh which time do you speak? There was time before the internet? Heretic!!!
- 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.
- 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
- 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.