What did you do...BEFORE the internet?

smearyllama

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Ramin 123 said:
Remember the magic that was Metroid Prime, I mean my God how brilliant was that game...and Eternal Darkness one of the underrated gems of the Gamecube?
At that point, the only shooters I got to play were Starfox Assault, Metal Arms (genius game), and Battalion Wars. I had pretty awful taste, but Metal Arms still remains a favorite to this day, as the least-sucky title on that list.

I was about 7-10 when I only had the 'Cube, so that tells you something.
 

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Vault101 said:
So do you remember a time in your life when you didnt have access to the internet? has the internet changed your life at all?
Yeah, being born in the early 80s, I had plenty of time, before it was commercially viable, so I played with other things - We went through a stack of home computers, before the internet really grabbed us, since we were pretty slow to it.

I used to do things like ride my bike every weekend, with friends, play football in the street, all sorts of things that my dad would have done, plus gather in friend's bedrooms on rainy days, clamouring for a go on the Mega Drive, before losing out at Street Fighter. Nowadays, I just get beaten a lot more often, since I don't have to hand a controller over.

We got broadband about 7 years ago now and it has changed our lives, particularly mine. I've developed an obsession with it and couldn't be without my connection for my daily fix.
 

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Vault101 said:
So do you remember a time in your life when you didnt have access to the internet? has the internet changed your life at all?

in my case because of my age (born in 1991) I do vaugley remeber a time without it however really its been a big part of my life, ive pretty much grown up with it ,I mean I didnt really use it much when I was younger I watched alot of TV had my N64 and books I supose
I was born a year after you, but most of my childhood years I've spent playing outside, watching Cartoon Network and playing console games. Fortunately I didn't own a PC back then, but I never was bored although I had less things to occupy me than I do today.

Less, indeed IS more. :)
 

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Vault101 said:
So do you remember a time in your life when you didnt have access to the internet? has the internet changed your life at all?

in my case because of my age (born in 1991) I do vaugley remeber a time without it however really its been a big part of my life, ive pretty much grown up with it ,I mean I didnt really use it much when I was younger I watched alot of TV had my N64 and books I supose


but now as an adult its one of the nessecities alongside Energy drinks and air, Plus I dont even watch TV, in fact it baffles me how TV can compete with the internet (considering even the crappy state of foxtel/pay TV in Australia, in fact why would you bother? free tv is getting better I supose)

anyway Im quite facinated by this internet/technology thing, how its become a huge thing in such little time
Well I was born in 81, a full 10 years before you, so yeah, I remember back before there even was an Internet (as such) and in fact I didn't get personal access to the Internet until I was about 18. Let me tell you, the main thing I remember about the days before the Internet was a damn sight more boredom.. Sure I read more, watched more tv, and once I got a PC I played games; but the Internet is sort of like the cement that fills in all the gaps.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
I got this in the 80's and thought it was wonderful.



Internet is still a young thing. Ask your folks about the time before photocopiers. Or only three channels.
So how was life before photocopiers Root? Or should I be asking you how you and your father caught a Mastodon for dinner?

OT: As a kid growing up in the 90's my parents did have internet at our house, but since it was AOL it took about 10,000 years for anything to boot up.
Instead of waiting for that ridiculous amount of time I'd call up a friend, play with Gundam action figures or play a video game. On the times I wasn't with a friend I'd be either playing outside, or jumping on the trampoline.
Rarely did I play video games actually as a kid, I only got into them more when the internet started speeding up and I got into flash games.

Kids of today? Go play outside; it's better than anything on the internet.
 

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I... either sat at home playing my Atari STe and/or Megadrive (Genesis), or was getting my ass kicked at school.
 

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I was either watching TV, playing video games, or going outside and blowing stuff up with fireworks...

Now I am older and have internet.. And am still doing all those things XD
 

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Played N64 a lot, Sega Saturn some and many a wrestling game round at my friends house for whole weekends on PS1.
 

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well, since basically the internet grew with me here in my country (MX) i can safelly say i was playing video games while waiting for that porn pic to download, or searching for the episodes of EVANGELION on various sites...

now that i think about it, its come a long time since the mayor search engine was YAHOO

funny huh??
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
I got this in the 80's and thought it was wonderful.



Internet is still a young thing. Ask your folks about the time before photocopiers. Or only three channels.
I laughed.

I've been a computer tech for over 20 years... Sometimes I wonder how I managed before search engines and then I remember there were these things called Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) where I could post questions and there were also HUGE reference books I could look through.

The old days make me really appreciate Google.

Socially, I used to talk on the phone, write letters, play console games, hang out with friends IRL and read many, many books.
 

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I was born late 89, and got the internet around 1998/1999 when i was 8/9 years old. Back then, even though we had a computer, we didn't get online much. If I did get online, it was like on cartoonnetwork.com, movie/video game websites, or AOL Kids. Before that time however, i used to play my Playstation that i got in 1997, and before that i just used to play with my toys, or watch tv/movies or something...