Life before internet?

[Sea Moose]

I just realised that i havent known life without the internet. When the internet has a blackout i generally wig out and i dont know what to do. I go to college and most of the content is online. I would like to hear older atot members tell us all stories around the fire about the dark old days of no net.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I was 10 when I first got regular access to the tubes (1995). These days I would have a very hard time going a month without web access.

 

[QueBert]

Setting up Compuserve on a 8088 with a 300 baud modem would make you hate "on-line" It took a damn degree to get it working, and when it finally was, you had 300 baud goodness, which isn't good at all. It wasn't the internet, but it was sort of like a retarded older step brother. As much time as I spend on-line, I can go without it for weeks and not wig out. Before Compuserve and 300 baud modems I'm not sure what existed. But it was worse than that, I don't see how or why anyone used it and like it

 

[Sea Moose]

I first experienced the net in 98, i was about 13, i couldnt go an evening with out the web.

 

[Passions]

My first experience was in 1997. I felt a feeling of joy I never experienced before.

 

[eplebnista]

Before the internet I read books and listened to music, both of which I still do regularly.

 

[xeemzor]

Sometimes I wish I had known a time in my life before constant internet access. I sometimes feel addicted to it. It's quite easy to be an anti-social caveman with the internet.

 

[dwell]

We got our news from the TV or newspaper. We called each other on the telephone. We did research at the library. Most of all, we fucked off at work by talking coffee breaks and playing solitaire instead of surfing the web

 

[aircooled]

I was rocking the dial-up BBS's in 1983 w/ a 300 baud dumb modem on my commodore 64, shortly after that we got connected to Q-Link (who would eventually change their name to AOL), non of this was "the internet" but back in the day it was cool.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: aircooled
I was rocking the dial-up BBS's in 1983 w/ a 300 baud dumb modem on my commodore 64, shortly after that we got connected to Q-Link (who would eventually change their name to AOL), non of this was "the internet" but back in the day it was cool.

what was the "net" like on a commodore 64?! It would have taken you days to display a bikini girl

 

[spaceman]

hi speed dubbing, zines, mortal kombat bhong sessions,cruisin,parkin,trippin, buggin, startin shit,talkin shit, womans ,bettys ,hoes, tweakers

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Sea Moose

Originally posted by: aircooled
I was rocking the dial-up BBS's in 1983 w/ a 300 baud dumb modem on my commodore 64, shortly after that we got connected to Q-Link (who would eventually change their name to AOL), non of this was "the internet" but back in the day it was cool.

what was the "net" like on a commodore 64?! It would have taken you days to display a bikini girl

are you just being obtuse?

BBS's were a fun diversion on a C64. I overclocked my 300 baud modem to 450. Anything higher would result in too many lost bits and repeats.

other than that, with no internet, people went outside and socialized with each other.

 

[Pepsei]

bbs before the net... and people actually have meets/cook outs locally at the park. games for apple/commodore/amigas ..etc were downloaded from long distance bbs sites. my first game that i remember playing was wizardry back in highschool, with the weird al's in 3-d album playing in my cassette player.

 

[Fritzo]

Life was actually pretty good back then. TV had fun stuff to watch, everyone wasn't a snotty know-it-all because if you needed to know something, you have to drive to the library (you couldn't just Google stuff and then pretend that you knew it all your life), PC games were awesome, people would hang out at malls and movie theaters, old people were 1000% less frustrated because they didn't have to worry about using the right slash mark when typing in an address...


Can we go back?

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Life was actually pretty good back then. TV had fun stuff to watch, everyone wasn't a snotty know-it-all because if you needed to know something, you have to drive to the library (you couldn't just Google stuff and then pretend that you knew it all your life), PC games were awesome, people would hang out at malls and movie theaters, old people were 1000% less frustrated because they didn't have to worry about using the right slash mark when typing in an address...


Can we go back?

Yeah i like older games, not many recent games wow me. Cod6 will be awesome and mass effect 2.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
... with no internet, people went outside and socialized with each other.

*shudder*

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Before the internet I read books and listened to music, both of which I still do regularly.

This. I would prefer life without the internet. Everything is dumbing down these days.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
... with no internet, people went outside and socialized with each other.

*shudder*

I am breaking out with hives

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
... with no internet, people went outside and socialized with each other.

*shudder*

Those were good times. Too bad you kids missed out.

 

[Insomniator]

There was no life before internet.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Before the internet I read books and listened to music, both of which I still do regularly.

This. I would prefer life without the internet. Everything is dumbing down these days.

These.

KT

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Before the internet I read books and listened to music, both of which I still do regularly.

This. I would prefer life without the internet. Everything is dumbing down these days.

You notice this too? If something takes more than a few seconds, young'uns don't have time for it now.

I actually showed an instructional clip on Youtube to one of our interns the other day, and he said "It's 5 minutes- can't you just tell me what it's about?" These are the same people that stand in front of a microwave going "COME ON!!!! COME ON!!!!!"

Guess they don't know that frozen dinners used to take 40 minutes.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Before the internet I read books and listened to music, both of which I still do regularly.

This. I would prefer life without the internet. Everything is dumbing down these days.

You notice this too? If something takes more than a few seconds, young'uns don't have time for it now.

I actually showed an instructional clip on Youtube to one of our interns the other day, and he said "It's 5 minutes- can't you just tell me what it's about?" These are the same people that stand in front of a microwave going "COME ON!!!! COME ON!!!!!"

Guess they don't know that frozen dinners used to take 40 minutes.

I bet that was a time when child obesity was rare and nut allergies were unheard of.

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Before the internet I read books and listened to music, both of which I still do regularly.

This. I would prefer life without the internet. Everything is dumbing down these days.

You notice this too? If something takes more than a few seconds, young'uns don't have time for it now.

I actually showed an instructional clip on Youtube to one of our interns the other day, and he said "It's 5 minutes- can't you just tell me what it's about?" These are the same people that stand in front of a microwave going "COME ON!!!! COME ON!!!!!"

Guess they don't know that frozen dinners used to take 40 minutes.

heaven forbid if they had to actually mail a letter to someone to get a response on something....i mean, actually writing something on a piece of paper, folding it up and putting into an envelope, handwriting the address on the envelope, walk out to the mailbox, wait a week or so, checking the mailbox daily, and then opening up the envelope, unfolding the letter and then reading it...

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: Chris
We got our news from the TV or newspaper. We called each other on the telephone. We did research at the library. Most of all, we fucked off at work by talking coffee breaks and playing solitaire instead of surfing the web

i remember those days. life was simple then. you could leave work and no one would call because cell phones didn't exist, either.