Life before the internet

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I think it saves paper...

Well i agree. i mean dont get me wrong i think the internet is an amazing thing, but it keeps to many people from being active. So it is both good and bad in a sence

Internet > life

Yeah, it definitely has its pros and cons. Whiel it makes life a lot easier in many ways, it is also keeps many people from being active like sonpro said.

It'll be intersting to see how far down the road the internet has come like in 30-40 years from now. Will all kids be obese? lol...lets hope not!

Kids are already obese and I think the internet is the best thing. Life before all this technology was shit we just didnt know it then. Internet and mobile phones are the best things ever invented I wouldnt be without either of them now

Yes, I'm not doubting the fact that this new technology makes life easier and more fun. I'm just saying that, with all the technology, kids are more involved with viedo games and computer games instead of doing more healthy things. You also can't deny the fact that in the past 20 years, when tech really started getting going, that obesity has risen dramatically. I try to balance both of the two-tech stuff and doing active things.

Do you miss what life was like before the internet and other modern-day technology? What kinds of things did you do instead?

Dude, I was born in 89' so I didn't experience the days where there was no computer and shit. But back the, I know, from my granparents and older relatives that they found stuff to do liek sports. for example, when my grandfatehr was little (in the 50's) they'd get to together with neighbor friends and play some sort of game like football, baseball, etc. And thats how they occupied themselves. The new generations are exposed to a more sedentary lifestyle and as you can tell, obesity is climbing.

Hey, it may not have been as entertaining as today, but back then, kids were a lot healthier.

internet pwns irl n00b. and the shiz did not begin in 97

We used to do all sorts of crazy shit when we were kids before the internet. We had to make up our own shit and riding pushbikes a lot too. One day we were playing football and the ball went into our nieghbours water tank so we kicked a hole in it to get the ball out. We got in heaps of shit for that. Sometimes we would fill our pants with sand and let it fall out and make out we were shitting ourselves. I think Id sooner technology

Good point and messages are sent much faster than before.

I also was born around that time, but we didn't get online till 2005. I can honestly say that living Webless sucks.

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Yeah it does. But I still think that even if the web somehow crashed, yeah it would be totally frickin bad for me, and of course for everyone else in this world BUT...I always find a way of doing other things and occupying myself. So I would learn to cope eventually. But yeah I agree, living webless for an extended period of time would suck big time!

Life with out internet would suck for me ( im young though) i didnt live in that crazyy life period with out the internet. I love myspace! i couldnt live with out it

i also miss life before the internet, but thinking about it... if the internet was say 'deleted' everyone would miss it. its part of life now.

Yes, I get the same feelings sometimes. Truth is, reality is what you make it. Don't curse the ubiquity of technology. If you want to get into the habit of calling people, make that happen.

yes it is, i get the same feelings
before the internet it seemed that technology wasn't there, like you know what i mean? when it came i wasn't like on it ALL the time, cause i was just a kid! but then when the interent came it was like the advance in technology came and nothing was the same.
but i feel the same way, it was cause everything was so simple

Well if you we in the period when it didn't exist you wouldn't die :P

Yeah, I wish I could've known life without the Internet. We'd spend long days running around outside, building tree forts, catching frogs by the pond, playing tag in the field...this is the life I dream of. But I couldn't make it happen without being laughed at.

Forget other people. Just do it.

We got along just fine without it. I like the internet. It's fast and convenient, but I miss the other things in life as well. Thanks for your input.

Those are actually some things we did...left out crawling through storm sewers and lighting fires in the woods. Later we discovered pot
and sex.

Ah, the 70's.

No cable TV, central air, cell phones, home computers or internet. You had to actually go outside and talk to people! EVERYBODY was out in the summer especially. It was too hot and boring inside watching about four network channels.

Useful information of that day was about the PEOPLE you knew, not how to configure the HTML on a myspace page, for example.

Much has been gained, but along with it, a certain quality of life has been lost.

I miss my life before the internet :(

I feel the same way.

Interesting observation. Thanks for your input.

I Fing hate the net. It was supposed to bring people together and improve communications. It has instead served to fragment society even further and has drastically reduced the occurance and importance of face time. The amount of bad information and inaccurate made up crap I have to sift through on a daily basis has gotten way out of control. I'd rather sit in an empty room and be bored than waste another 5 mins of my life watching yet another Youtube episode of 'ow my balls.' Knocking on someone's door to see what they're up to, thats what I miss. All this texting and emailing crap means that I'm in constanct virtual contact but never in real contact with real people. The next time I'm at a table where people are texting eachother instead of just f'ing talking, it will be on like Donkey Kong.

i love the internet but it annoys me because it keeps me on it for long periods of time it doesnt stop me going out though if i wanna do something i will but in the evening im glued to my laptop and its annoying but i cant get off it.

The Internet actually began as early as 1980, when the first BBS's (like early, text-only websites, which you had to call to) appeared.

Anyway, I enjoy the Internet, but I almost never use email (I currently have nearly 1000 unread messages), MSN or whatever; telephone is much better :)

before i had the internet, my life was divided between tv and games lol

It's a mix of then undisciplined society that capitalism has created.

People need to use the internet as a tool to enhance their life not absorb it.

It's cool that you can still send letters. lol.

i agree the internet has destroyed all innocence and fun no one goes out to play anymore
internets i hates you

Yesss. I loved it back when there was no internet, people were more physical and as the internet wasn't a distraction much there was much more you could get done. I feel sorry for this generation born where the internet is like an addictive hobbie because they will never really appreciate life for what it is, just life infront of a screen controlling your life.

THANKYOU. I also feel this way & it's impossible to get a penpal to exchange letters with me. Because of the internets.

i agree, internet is controlling our lives. i remember back when there was no computers, no internet, no cells, no cable tv.....(like Solimorphic wrote), back in the 70's....and u know what? nobody knew what they were missing. people were a lot active, doing different things, meeting up with friends, going places....life was a lot simpler too.
kids today are so different, all of them playing computer games...
plus its totally addicting, i'm addicted to msn, facebook and internet. fuck internet, it has ruined my life.

I was born in 1975; the perfect age to watch all this technology stuff rise up from literally nothing. As a toddler all we had were 5 channels on our antenna-tv. As a little kid we had no computers (only super rich people had them) and I had to run around in the backyard or play on my bigwheel or climb trees. The first exposure to computers for most of us were arcade games like Asteroids, and at first these were only in bars. By 1984 there were 'video arcades' with Ms. Pac Man and Pole Position and Frogger and Donkey Kong and Joust, and we figured it couldn't get any better. When Nintendo came out with Super Mario Brothers on the Home Entertainment System in 1986, it was like the Future had arrived. All we did was sit inside all day and play that thing. I never went outside any more; I just played Nintendo. Meanwhile in 1981 all we had were Apple II computers which were retarded. I don't even know what use they had at all. The first computer my parents used for business was around '87, and all it had was a spreadsheet program. When 1990 came along and they invented the 386 computer with Windows, it was like: this can't get any more advanced. MS Word...etc. There still was no internet...I remember the first time I heard the word 'email' was in 1992 when some nerd was talking to his buddy at school. At first the internet was mainly about shock value. Most of the sites were pathetic. When I went away to college, NOBODY had cell phones and everybody in our dormitory had to share the land-line phone in the hall to call our families. If you had a laptop back then, it meant you were uber-rich. I didn't have a computer until my junior year, and it was that computer I mentioned from 1987 with the spreadsheet program. I used it to write all my college papers and I had to use a dot-matrix printer I found at a garage sale. Most people still had desktop computers back then (1995-96). I was 22 in 1997 and finally got a hand-me-down computer that had Windows on it. I finally got to use the internet in 1998, and it was just getting good by then. It had some really useful sites at that point, and AOL was no longer the monopoly...we had a program called Netscape Navigator or something. Nobody had cell phones for the most part until a few years later, when some sales guy just GAVE me one for free. I have never gone a day without a cell phone since that day (@2001). The 2000s at that point resembled the tech world we know today, only the speeds hadn't reached 3 gHZ yet. It was a long, wild ride for me...I liked life before technology, and I like it now as well. I don't know what I'd do without my Wikipedia! When I audited some chemistry courses in 2005 and the professor expected us to use Excel like it was a common household tool, I really experienced the generation gap for the first time. I think it's all good, but sometimes I miss my childhood days of running in the backyard chasing dragonflies and only being able to watch Star Wars when it was re-released in the theaters or on that ONE day a year when CBS or NBC would show it. In the 70s it was a tradition for everybody to watch The Wizard of OZ on network television on the night before Thanksgiving or something like that...now you can watch the W of OZ whenever the hell you please...yay

NO, it is NOT normal as you can still do all of those things you did before. You just chose to use your time on the internet instead of doing those things. Its like watching TV instead of learning to play an instrument.

ITS YOUR CHOICE TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ONLINE.

I was born in 1980 and I remember the regular nintendo. Looking back online, the regular nintendo couldn't handle a megabyte much less the multiple gigabytes of today's world.

I couldn't agree more, all those simple games I used to beg for but never could have I have them all now (Rom version but who gives a shit.) I enjoy using Wikipedia as it is the easiest way to get information on something although colleges generally don't accept it as a source and I would not for a second like to go back to a time where I would have to use a monocrone monitor to do homework again.

I love the internet its brilant can find anything u want on there from strange porn to holidays in space

I thought the internet started in the 80,s ?