I Remember Life Before the Internet

I grew up in the 60's and 70's before the internet and cell phones and such. It was a wonderful time. Everyone interacted face to face or called each other on land lines. We played outside a lot and rode our bicycles all over town and it was a city of 45,000 people. We were a lot more fit than kids today and we developed life long friendships.

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hunkalove · 70-79, M

The Internet has made our world less of a place.

kayoshin · 41-45, M

On the other hand if you were unpopular or unfit your "fun" and activity options were a lot more limited. Just saying i have quite some experience of being a child in a tech free country (comunism made sure we lived the 70s in the 80s and so on) and if you were not a popular kid it was far from the pretty picture you portray. At least nowdays kids don't pick on other kids for doing anything tech related or for talking about star wars and star trek and gamer isn't a dirty insult anymore (in the 90s in my school the rank went gay<gamer<loser<chump<nobody<cool<popular).
Tell you what I'd change a large part of my childhood for the childhood they have now, and don't worry even though I spent a lot of time with books and not roaming the streets I didn't get fat and I'm 33 and still keep in touch with my best friend that i met at 12years of age.
Your mileage may vary.

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kayoshin · 41-45, M

@annamarie65: I am not saying kids are better today but that I would rather be an outcast today with the world at my fingers than before the tech age.

annamarie65 · 56-60, F

that is YOUR opinion. you cant compare your culture in another country and in another decade, against our country in the same decade. you are still trying to compare apples to oranges so i wont keep trying to explain something to you that you dont understand...and im tired of arguing. so i am done with you...nuff said. I will not comment further.

kayoshin · 41-45, M

What decade is that? In case you didn't notice he said before the internet. Not a clear date. I just said when before the internet was for us because we got the internet later than you guys. If you want to live with nostalgia glasses it's your choice.
I do realise it's. My opinion but before internet is before internet in any corner of the world amd you will notice I never said his storey isn't true FOR SOME while I said ON THE OTHER HAND....others had it harder without the internet and if you can't empathise with that then it's your problem and not mine neither the orange tree's Neither the apple tree's

annamarie65 · 56-60, F

i remember those days

Smoothie · 70-79, M

I agree I consider the internet the curse of the modern world

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