What was life like without the internet?

I had to hide my shemale porn and lived in fear that if someone found it they would think I was gay.

Now, private browsing +

http://www.ashemaletube.com

and I'm in heaven!

We hid our copies of Playboy in an abandoned house by the river. Now, boys can just log on to the Internet to see naked women.

you had to go to the library, now it comes to your phone

Bad Wigins wrote:

Most of the information on the internet is false. And at least half of it is porn.

Before the internet, if you wanted false information you listened to a woman, and if you wanted porn you went to 7/11.

there is nowhere near as much porn on the internet as interfering busy-body controlling politicians want you to believe

I had almost no idea what was going on in the world of long distance running. Now, I know where and when the big races are, who is running in them, and know the results soon after.

There was also microfishe

To rich countries the web gives us just a different way of doing the same things, so life was really not much different. To suppressed political folks in communist regimes yes the web has been transformative.

The telephone and radio/television have been far, far more significant.

Having said that.....I'm 55 and can honestly say the internet is really the only significant technology that's happened in my lifetime. My grandparents (born 1890's)started with horses and Queen Victoria, and both lived to see the internet. Now that's change!

Days went by slower.

vergo wrote:

Having said that.....I'm 55 and can honestly say the internet is really the only significant technology that's happened in my lifetime. My grandparents (born 1890's)started with horses and Queen Victoria, and both lived to see the internet. Now that's change!

You are not giving more recent generations the credit they deserve. In addition to the Internet modern times have seen the creation of this:

stuff you like to pee out wrote:

i'll tell you, brah, that an education actually meant something back in the day. with the ease of looking up virtually anything you want, knowledge is no longer power and a degree is just a piece of paper.

also, video games were much harder. simon's quest without a walkthrough? impossible, brah. impossible.

You said "brah."

Both Grandparents???What happened to the other two?

vergo wrote:

Having said that.....I'm 55 and can honestly say the internet is really the only significant technology that's happened in my lifetime. My grandparents (born 1890's)started with horses and Queen Victoria, and both lived to see the internet. Now that's change!

Recognizer of The Obvious wrote:

Funny how the folks with money and power are still the educated folks coming out of Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford...

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Yes, the bastions of morality teaching how to screw as many people out of as much money as possible with the inane view they will lead a much happier life.

A lot of late night Cinemax. Yes it was...hard. (Beavis and Butthead and laughter).

picture we me cinnamon rollin wrote:

How did people live back then? Was all common knowledge passed down through family stories and cave drawings?

It must have been hard.

Today everything we need to know is a click away...

In college, hanging out on campus on a Saturday, you would walk around campus with nothing to do, and by chance, you would run into a friend at the coffee shop who you hadn't seen in a few weeks, and then you would spend the rest of the day with this person.

yeah what was college like? i'm interested.

You had to wank it to a paper magazine. Could you imagine?

Waited with anticipation for TnF News to arrive every month.

Instead of Facebook or emailing pictures ... your aunt and uncle would break out the slides of the family vacation and you had to sit through the whole thing!

If you were lucky, you had a set of encyclopedias at home and didn't have to go to the library to look something up.

If you lost the manual to some contraption, you were screwed, you figured it out on your own.

You had to use paper maps and figure out the best route on your own to make long drives.

Sears, JC Penney and Montgomery Ward all mailed or made available - giant catalogs. You could call in your order, mail in your order, or go to the catalog area.