What was life like for you before the Internet?
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Oddly enough my VHS of The Rock sounded better than the DVD of the same movie when I first got that
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There are times I miss not having a mobile phone. People couldn't ring you up at all hours and expect you to pick up straight away, and the answer phone felt a tad more useful than today's voicemail.
I remember getting my first answering machine. I spent my teenage years without one. If you missed the call, you missed the call. Tough. For the caller.
Civil. Worthy.
Yes.
These two, especially!
I still have my beloved hardbacks from WaldenBook and Barnes and Noble with the $5 stickers on them...
My Sunday papers, especially...the sound the broadsheet paper made when turning or folding...
Ah, well, you can't go back,,,
In the 2nd year of my university studies (1993), I asked what this 'internet' thing was. They told me 'that's the thing you have been watching during your breaks for about half a year now'.
Oh, aha. I see.
Before that, I played lots of computer games. And I read a lot.
Still do both, by the way.
Oh, aha. I see.
Before that, I played lots of computer games. And I read a lot.
Still do both, by the way.
A lot of my time pre- internet was spent playing games bought on physical media and magazines that usually had demo discs.
Also did more actual things like going out to the movies and things like plays.
I did a lot of film photography too and model building.
Also did more actual things like going out to the movies and things like plays.
I did a lot of film photography too and model building.
For me growing up it was games on cassettes or cartridges. Buying magazines with free games but you had to copy the code from pages in the magazine and key it in to your Zx Spectrum.
I collected all the Amstrad magazines and copies of CVG magazine
People choose to be distracted by everything these days. They choose to walk around town like zombies with the faces stuck in their phones.
Not just Florida, we were both born in Alachua General Hospital, in Gainesville, just on different days and in different years.
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Read more books, played video games, hated interacting with people. Now I read the internet more, still play video games and hate interacting with people less. When people talk about "interacting with real people" back in the day, it wasn't all fun in the sun for some people. To quote Rush it was "conform or be cast out". So I don't look upon the pre-internet era as some wonderful Golden Age or get misty eyed about those days. There were things that were cool about those days and things that were absolute shit.
Much the same, only slower.
Circa 1999, I submitted articles to magazines, standard (i.e., snail) mail, and hoped that the editor would print them. If he did, he'd send me a copy, and I'd wait for reaction in the letters-to-the-editor. Maybe I'd have to buy a copy if I wasn't in this issue. I'd try other markets in the meantime. Really slow, but that's how it was.
Later on, you could get rejected (or maybe accepted) in a wink. You'd thi9nk they'd ask for corrections and grant you approval, but NO-OH, "same as" policy. Or Still, some editors (not to mention any names) could keep you waiting for a year or two and then forget why they didn't use your stuff.
Well, I'm only an amateur writer, had a daytime job, so I shouldn't complain.
Circa 1999, I submitted articles to magazines, standard (i.e., snail) mail, and hoped that the editor would print them. If he did, he'd send me a copy, and I'd wait for reaction in the letters-to-the-editor. Maybe I'd have to buy a copy if I wasn't in this issue. I'd try other markets in the meantime. Really slow, but that's how it was.
Later on, you could get rejected (or maybe accepted) in a wink. You'd thi9nk they'd ask for corrections and grant you approval, but NO-OH, "same as" policy. Or Still, some editors (not to mention any names) could keep you waiting for a year or two and then forget why they didn't use your stuff.
Well, I'm only an amateur writer, had a daytime job, so I shouldn't complain.
Read a lot of books, watched MTV with friends, spent most of my time outside. Proud Gen X-er here. Me and my buddies riding our bikes around like a preteen biker gang. Play sword fights with long sticks we found. Playing baseball or mostly kickball when one too many windows were broken. Tried to never ever say the words "I'm bored." You know why. Of course we took in many carcinogens by drinking water from a hose, after waiting a little bit for the water to cool down. Chasing down the ice cream man.
That was the life.
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