Share Your Knowledge About the Days b4 the Internet

I still remember a lot of my friends' home phone numbers. Also we used to have to call the local radio stations and request songs. Didn't get internet or a computer (not counting my old man's work laptop) in the house until I was about 12 or 13.... that was 2002 or 2003. Even then it was an incredibly shitty bottom-of-the-line Dell and my parents put it in a visible spot so we could only use it for homework and shit. I still managed to look up pron quite a bit, and covered my tracks by deleting all the history and files related to the pron sites (I was extremely good at learning computers when I was young). One day after basketball practice my mom picked me up and on the ride home started hammering me about pron they found on the PC, I held out and denied everything, when we got home it turned out my younger sister had admitted to looking up naked ladies for whatever reason. And that's my story.
 
Also squinting at the scrambled HBO and Showtime channels to see if that helped cut through the static so I could see some boobs lol
 
Porn mags were mind expanding drugs. Phone numbers were memorized. 13 years old skating downtown and there was no way for anyone to contact me about anything. Using collect calls from pay phones. Talking about twin peaks at lunch. Comparing notes about Zelda to find all the secrets. Hardly anyone got triggered.
 
When you watched a movie and recognized an actor but just couldn't remember where you saw them before, it would just drive you crazy. You had no IMDB to look up and find out so you sat tortured until it occurred to you a few days later.
 
ralphc1 said:
Scheduling times to call so your girl would answer the phone and not her parents. Having a long cord on the phone so you could go in another room and close the door.
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Either you're some kind of evil genius or you dated the girls that excelled in maths, had a plan etc.. i wen't for the girls that didn't.. me at 15 wasn't part of no ones plan.. :D
 
MusterX said:
My daughter doing her homework looks up on her i-pad in 10 seconds what would take me 2 hours at that age. I had to get my mom to drive me down to the public library. Use the dewey decimal system and look up a book that might contain what I needed. Then go search the shelves for that book and then go through the book reading for what you needed. You MIGHT find it in the first try, you might not. Meanwhile my daughter finds in seconds what took me hours. Typing it out, "hours to seconds" doesn't even do it justice. Its a difference measured in magnitude.
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True dat

But the younger generation needs to be taught that not all of lifes answers are gonna be at the touch of a screen.

The resourcefullness and effort you learned from your library trips probably made you the success you are today.

The younger gen has it too easy for the real world.

I remember the pre internet days well, and they just as good if not better than today.
 
DM1982 said:
True dat

But the younger generation needs to be taught that not all of lifes answers are gonna be at the touch of a screen.

The resourcefullness and effort you learned from your library trips probably made you the success you are today.

The younger gen has it too easy for the real world.

I remember the pre internet days well, and they just as good if not better than today.
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For sure. We had to try A LOT harder than kids do now as far as that stuff goes. The big one that I've noticed, even from older people on the internet, is the inability to read anything longer than a Twitter post without posting "tl/dr." I grew up, forced to read, real all the time and I think it improves ones acumen in a way that cannot be achieved easily in the internet era of 15 word posts.
 
Jackie Blue said:
An alternative name for my generation (late Gen X-early Millennial) is Oregon Trail Generation. Yeah, everybody born in that era played that shit.
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Always had to hurry cuz i didnt have a computer at home and if we didnt make it by 3 pm we werent making it. I dont think I ever made it all the way without killing almost everyone in my party . Im 36 and in the same boat you i feel a lot more x than millennial

I had to sweet talk my mom into getting us some cable internet so that I could play mad everquest . It was a struggle because we had just gotten normal internet in the house like a year and a half ago when we got put first family pc

Before that it was dial up and id go linkdead and die all the time.

Far as porn goes my dad would actually get all kinds of porno mags delivered to the house. And my mom would get mad and try to mail them back where they came from..... At least she thought she did, id grab them bitches on my way to the buss stop then spend all day scared shitless that you were gonna get caught with that porno on ya .... But I didnt cuz i kept my mouth shut.
 
Mr. Fixit said:
This was the best way to watch porn
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ha. I remember staring at that for quite a few hours when PayTv channels first came in. Every once in a while you would get a 3 second section with some stabilized clarity.
 
The 90's were a blast. Walking around all summer smoking weed, dropping acid, crushing pussy, and getting into fights.
 
Cpt Migraine said:
I miss the times before the internet and phones..

You agreed to a where and when and then you met up.. we actually played outside, got activated, made new friends, got our asses kicked, kicked some asses.. etc..

I think you had to work a lot harder for your kicks back then.. don't get me wrong, i love a bit of red dead redemption, loved unreal, love the opportunity to talk to some motherfuckers thousands of miles away but there is very little balance to it..

We sacrificed our privacy.. it was good for the soul to just be able to say "tell him/her i'm not home" and that was it.. find me if it's that important..
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I feel you. When you meet with people now.. having a smartphone is like a freecard to be late. Just a simple text "Im a little late" is everything you need.
Back in the day it was 15 minutes tolerance or Im done waiting and I would leave.

Internet is awesome.. Im currently learning a 3rd language and Google Translate is fucking awesome. Or I learned how to do a lot of stuff on Youtube. Or do actual research for trips.

But social media, clickbait and fake news are cancer.
 
Back before the internet we had REAL nostalgia. Not this whatever you call it now.
 
Asked girls for their number in person. Usually at the mall during our teens. Getting a girls phone number written on a ripped piece of paper. Then calling the number and asking their parents if you could speak to them. When you go on a date we would pick a time and location to meet. When I was a little older to drive I would have to use a damn map. I would be at home waiting for hours for a girl to call or call back. Spend endless hours on the phone talking.

I agree scrambled porn or if you can get your hands on a dirty mag. If not you find anything possible. A swimsuit/lingerie photo from a magazine/newspaper, lol. My best friend in H.S. always looked much older than his actual age due to his large amount of facial hair and also bad skin. Somehow in high school he could always buy porn magazines, cigarettes and even alcohol. He would even get into strip clubs at age 15-16.

Instead of entertaining myself with a phone or tablet I would have a walkman or CD player. I had a game boy, but usually only played at home. Blowing into nintendo cartridges or stacking them to make them work. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was late Junior year or Senior year when my brother got dial up at home.

I used disposable camera's to take pictures on occasion. I wasn't really into capturing moments, but I'm sure if I did I would have owned a decent 35mm film camera. I kind of wish I captured more memories.

Life was much more simple back then. We would be outside playing all day long. Making up our own games. Finding a stick and making a ball out of paper or tin foil and masking tape. I didn't really get much guidance from my parents so a lot of things I just learned from experience.
 
Wikipedia described the Genx and X millenial generations as the most down to earth accepting.

They described the boomers (our parents) as selfish and millenials as entitled.

Millenials grew up with " heres your trophy for doing absolutley fucking nothing. You suck but heres your damn trophy....brat."
 
we had to burn CDs after downloading songs from Limewire. Now you just push an icon on your phone.
 
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