Those under 25: how well do you remember your life before the internet?
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I think I was about 8, when I first started using the internet.
But back then the only thing I used it for was flash games and school.
At least I think, it's kinda blurry.
EDIT: 17 BTW
But back then the only thing I used it for was flash games and school.
At least I think, it's kinda blurry.
EDIT: 17 BTW
I would walk down the street and play with my buddies every single day, even when I had internet because I had dial up. I would only play something stupid like NeoPets or Habbo Hotel a few hours a week. Then my friends moved away, and internet became my life.
I got my dial-up June 2000, which would make me about 12. Although it and my sudden discovery of DBZ controlled my life at the time i still have a superb memory of my childhood. It was mainly custard, lego, holidays and big blank static thoughts for everything else. yup that sums up my childhood.
In all seriousness though i still remember most details of my life before the internet entered it, buzzed loudly in my ear and then died half an hour later.
In all seriousness though i still remember most details of my life before the internet entered it, buzzed loudly in my ear and then died half an hour later.
Goddamn kids these days. If you're not at least over 27, you don't remember your life before the Internet, because the Internet has existed in all its TCP/IP glory for that long, and in other forms for much longer than that. You may continue remembering your lives before you personally had access to it, though, or before the Web, even.[/pedant]
I have email older than half the people who've posted in this thread, so yeah, I definitely remember my life before I had Internet access in the early 90s. I remember when the WWW was new, too, so get off my lawn, etc. At least I didn't have to walk uphill both ways to school and they'd invented more than rocks and sticks to play with by the time I was born (although that's actually what my mom grew up with), so it could've been worse. Heh.
I have email older than half the people who've posted in this thread, so yeah, I definitely remember my life before I had Internet access in the early 90s. I remember when the WWW was new, too, so get off my lawn, etc. At least I didn't have to walk uphill both ways to school and they'd invented more than rocks and sticks to play with by the time I was born (although that's actually what my mom grew up with), so it could've been worse. Heh.
I was late to the net, before that, all I remember is I used to watch alot of tv... would stay up till 6am watching cartoons on Cartoon Network, this was back when they actually showed good cartoons... And play Snes or Playstation...
Also I'd draw alot, which I should be doing right now...
Also I'd draw alot, which I should be doing right now...
watched alot of tv, didn't socialize as much, english skills failed quite a bit. I can adjust well without it, as long as I have something to do(during hunting season I go entire weeks without it and not a care.))
I didn't get the internet until I was seventeen, and I'm 24 now. I don't remember my life before then very well, but that's more likely due to trauma and psychic damage than to any real net addiction 
I'm 25 and I was around computers since I was 8 or so, but haven't got one of my own until I was 13. However, I skipped the dial-up stuff and got broadband fairly recently, some 7 or 8 years ago.
That said, I obviously remember my pre-internet life well enough. And how was it? Well, great, actually! My neighbourhood was full of kids of my age and I was out a lot, which, I guess, wouldn't have been the case if I had internet access that early. Later, as a teenager, I had some difficulties obtaining new music. I had to find someone who had the specific album and record it on a blank casette. Yeah, you heard it, a CASETTE. Google it! It was tedious, but it had a certain charm to it. You appreciate the music more if you have to go through a bit of a struggle to get it.
Gamingwise, getting a new game was a nuisance for obvious reasons, and PC and gaming magazines were the source of news and info on new games. Solving a game puzzle was more interesting, sometimes frustrating, but helluva lot more rewarding without walkthroughs. And just sitting in front of computer screen felt more isolated and secluded.
So, I guess it was quite different, and many a thing is way easier nowadays, but guess what. I wouldn't have it any other way. I mean, today I'd probably become clinically psychotic without the internet, but I'm glad I was born before it.
That said, I obviously remember my pre-internet life well enough. And how was it? Well, great, actually! My neighbourhood was full of kids of my age and I was out a lot, which, I guess, wouldn't have been the case if I had internet access that early. Later, as a teenager, I had some difficulties obtaining new music. I had to find someone who had the specific album and record it on a blank casette. Yeah, you heard it, a CASETTE. Google it! It was tedious, but it had a certain charm to it. You appreciate the music more if you have to go through a bit of a struggle to get it.
Gamingwise, getting a new game was a nuisance for obvious reasons, and PC and gaming magazines were the source of news and info on new games. Solving a game puzzle was more interesting, sometimes frustrating, but helluva lot more rewarding without walkthroughs. And just sitting in front of computer screen felt more isolated and secluded.
So, I guess it was quite different, and many a thing is way easier nowadays, but guess what. I wouldn't have it any other way. I mean, today I'd probably become clinically psychotic without the internet, but I'm glad I was born before it.
I remember playing PS1 and N64 a lot, and getting stuck on a lot of games. If i got stuck on a game back then i usually stayed stuck, like i never got to the 2nd dungeon on OOT until recently D:
And also i never knew of any new releases. I first found out Spyro 3 was released when i saw it being played in an arcade setup in a Wacky Warehouse, same with most other games i ended up buying, other than that i never knew what games like MGS or DMC were until a lot later.
And also i never knew of any new releases. I first found out Spyro 3 was released when i saw it being played in an arcade setup in a Wacky Warehouse, same with most other games i ended up buying, other than that i never knew what games like MGS or DMC were until a lot later.
I'm only 15, but I started using the internet at around 10, so I do remember a time when I didn't have internet. I just read a lot of books. Seriously, I'd read all the time. And occasionally I'd watch TV. I just did a lot of regular things - played with my friends, went to school, ran around hyperactively. Not too different from what I do now. And I think my life was a lot nicer back when the sound of dialling up didn't make me want to shoot myself.
I was born in 1990 and I will be 20 in October. We first got our internet when I was 13 so I remember life before the itnernet quite well, I got my first phone when I was 12 and just in high school.
I think a lot of the internet has a lot of good things going for it, for example its great gaming is global and being able to see photography through flickr is great. However things like facebook just disgust me.
I think a lot of the internet has a lot of good things going for it, for example its great gaming is global and being able to see photography through flickr is great. However things like facebook just disgust me.
I remember it pretty well, actually. My parents were kind of skeptical towards this whole 'computer thing'. They initially got ripped off by a friend's brother in law, by buying his shitty old computer, that could hardly run 'Battle Chess'.
That blew.
So I remember playing with my LEGO's (LEGO rocks), football with my friends, reading a lot. That kind of shit. Only around 1999 did we get a computer that could, by the standards of the time, actually do shit. I fondly remember playing Baldur's Gate, Premier Manager 98 and Cutthroats. So much fun!
But, yes. The internet. When we finally got a shitty dial-up, I was restricted to only three hours a week. With an occasional extra hour on Sundays. I didn't do much, other than chat in chatboxes (which was popular at the time) and looking up cheats for my games. So a life without the pervasiveness of the internet? I can remember it quite well.
That blew.
So I remember playing with my LEGO's (LEGO rocks), football with my friends, reading a lot. That kind of shit. Only around 1999 did we get a computer that could, by the standards of the time, actually do shit. I fondly remember playing Baldur's Gate, Premier Manager 98 and Cutthroats. So much fun!
But, yes. The internet. When we finally got a shitty dial-up, I was restricted to only three hours a week. With an occasional extra hour on Sundays. I didn't do much, other than chat in chatboxes (which was popular at the time) and looking up cheats for my games. So a life without the pervasiveness of the internet? I can remember it quite well.