I Remember Life Before the Internet

Life before the internet was made a household necessity was a lot more simple. People had to actually think for themselves and do real research. It was a time of exploration, getting kicked out of the house for 3-4 hours a day after school so one could experience the outdoors and real social interaction. Best of all it was the era of thick skin; getting bullied was a right of passage and kids either grew stronger because of it or grew up to be office dorks and yes men. Oh to be back in the 70’s and 80’s...

I don’t think I had a real computer until ‘83 and the internet I don’t think showed up until AOL which maybe was around 85, but it wasn’t a household thing until the 90’s really as far as I can remember; at least not for me anyway.

I think life before internet is more romantic bcoz they used love letters before.but now?just chat etc..

I think I was more social, if I wanted anything, I'd go get it. Now I just go on the Internet 😢

well, people spoke in person more... and by phone. Harder to connect with lost connections. Could shop remotely thru Sears catalog sales. Phone was much more expensive for long distance before VoIP, etc.

our porn was in magazines
we wrote letters or made phone calls on telephones that were connected to the wall by a cord

I watched tv on a schedule set by the networks

and there were in black and white when I first started

I was a kid in the 70s. I had to use my imagination when I played. Video games did not exist then. Neither did cds or dvds. It was a different time. We had to think to figure things out. Like how yo count back change. If something cost $3.61 and we have the clerk a $5.00 we had to manually do the math in our heads to get the the right change. $0.39 =$4.00+$1.00=5.00. Now registers figure that out automatically or someone pulls out their phone.

We had to think for ourselves before the internet. In a way the internet made us dumb. But I’m glad we have it.

Awesome, multiplayer games meant, your friends came over to your house and it was always fun 😁

A better world, that's for sure.

Kids played outside till after dark. If you discussed someone's cell they had been arrested. If someone hit on you it left bruises. When you did a report, you had to go to a library and do the research in "books". You typed it on a typewriter and if you made a mistake you either used white-out and typed over it (teachers usually didn't allow this) you used erasable bond paper that let you erase and then realign and type the correct word or you just started over.
Spell check was in a dictionary and no auto-correct (that may have been a good thing).

I was raising a kid and looked with mistrust at cellphones

Actually families were closer, got more work done.

Somehow, some of us survived.

It’s very lovely ..thank you 😙

Newspapers were thicker, had to listen to the radio late at night to get the sports scores. Talked on the phone instead of texting. Was less distracted when out because you didn’t have cellphones back then

great

Yah when I was a kid I had to go to the friend s house that had a dad with porno under his bed before the internet now we can just look it up

Easier to enjoy life. The internet is flooded with bad news. It's sometimes hard to simply enjoy life.

A lot more intelligent people, less fake news and a lot less snowflakes.

awwww well we have really good imaginations because of that. Ask me and you will see

We spoke with each other, we wrote letters to each other, etc

it was better.. and you'll never know how good it was.

With more light comes more shadows

it was OK

It was awesome.

Dark

A lot harder to find collectibles.

Middle Ages! LOL