What did you do...BEFORE the internet?

[Carlston]

Around 92 during the BBS days, I just hung out with my friends playing pool, arcades, and rocky horror on the weekends, oh and old style laser tag.

I'd love to do them again...if they existed...well most pool halls here are bars more than anything.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

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.

 

[loc978]

...I think I started using the internet regularly around 1996...
Before that there was just school work, novels, my SNES (I didn't get a playstation until 1997 when I got a job)... and before that my NES and Atari 2600.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Being born in 1978 most of my life has been lived without the internet, in fact I only got "online" in about 2007.

I used to go out to parties, raves, hang out at friends houses, do martial arts, socialise etc. However I can't really blame the internet for me stopping doing all that although it does provide enough of a distraction to stop me starting again.

 

[Irridium]

I played DOOM, PS1, and played outside with friends.

Didn't have the internet(or did, but it was dial-up and nobody really used it) until we moved. A bit later I got Battlefield 1942 and was introduced into online gaming.

 

[altobizzaro]

I played consoles mostly the snestendo

 

[Irridium]

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.

By dad remembers a time before TV remotes.

You old people come from some truly barbaric times.

 

[cthulhumythos]

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

make the world a better place.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Got my porn the old fashion way. Panty raids.

more seriously though, I went outside. I still do, but just saying.

EDIT: should say I was born in 1992

 

[DasDestroyer]

A time when there was no internet? How delightfully absurd!
I was born in 1994, so the Internet was always there for me.

 

[Cogwheel]

Work. Write. Work some more.

Same thing I do now, really.

 

[Hiphophippo]

Cartoons, Nes, Snes. Ran around the neighborhood. I managed.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Games were a lot harder when you couldn't hop onto gamefaqs whenever you got stuck.
Of course, we got internet in 95' because my Dad worked for IBM so I've had it since I was ten.

 

[AetherWolf]

PS2, anime, played more sports, and in the summer time I would hang out at the lake with buddies (I still do this today, but not nearly as often since most of my best friends back then grew up and drifted away). Was also bullied a lot back in those days and I don't remember much else due to my suppressed memories.

 

[WolfLordAndy]

Games Workshop mainly... and TV, ah Cartoon Network, how your 90s cartoons made me live. Even when we got the internet, it was dial up, and online gaming consisted of phoning a host game of AoE or Red Alert.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

By dad remembers a time before TV remotes.

Hey, I had a long stick.

You old people come from some truly barbaric times.

Pfftt...You lot need help to dial a phone...push button rubbish.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I love how there's so many people posting about playing on ps2's but so little for playing dreamcast nintendo sega arcade or even playstation (when it was just playstation and it had this epic feel when you pressed the on button and heard those amazing 2 sound sequences

I loved that sound sequence, and it still gives me chills on the rare instance I hook up my old Playstation instead of just popping the disc into my PS2. I will never understand why the PS2 firmware has the second sound, but not the jaw dropping first sound effect.


Also, the start up thing for PS2 games seemed so high tech at the time.

Spoiler: here it is

And you can't forget the various start ups from Sega Genesis games; the two that I remember the most are Sonic 2 and Vectorman

Spoiler: Vectorman

The cool thing about this one was that Vectorman was completely under the players control in this intro. I just saw a video with a hidden minigame from this menu that I never knew about until today. It was just really cool.

I couldn't find a video of the intro from Sonic 2, but anyone who has played the game knows what I'm talking about.

 

[Frotality]

legos, drawing, and video games.

i will never forget you, mostly mediocre 90s adventure games, but the internet offers so much more...

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

I used to go outside and play football (soccer), i used to read a lot of books (specially comics), i played on my Mega Drive and Thundercats, TMNT, Transformers and G.I. Joe were my saturday morning cartoons.
Not much has changed...i still read a lot (including comics), i play football once a week, instead of playing on my Mega Drive i play on my ps3 and now i dont watch cartoons very often. Only difference is that i now ALSO use the internet.

 

[Vault101]

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.

yeah 3 channels haha

we get four[/B] channels now, honestly I dont know how we coped back then (I remember the days when we had 2 channels) no I am not lying

(to be fair thats analouge, Australia now as digital TV so we get....like ten chanels including digital)