What did you do...BEFORE the internet?

[crudus]

I didn't exist. My family has had the internet longer than I have been alive. I am at least pretty sure.

There was this world, which we kids used to call "The outside".
We used to play there and have fun, but now it's forgotten.

Then why do you remember it? Isn't that where they keep the daystar?

 

[Lilani]

Video games, TV, and sleepovers I guess. We got Internet access I think when I was about six or seven, so I don't remember much from before then. I did some elementary school sports, but very soon left because the players and their parents started getting way too serious. It seems after age seven you immediately stop playing for fun, and all that matters from that point forward is competition.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Television and Nintendo. Even when I had the internet it wasn't that big of a deal, I was a child and so was the internet.

It's Wikipedia that I don't know how society functioned with out. Really, sometimes I try to think of my life with out Wikipedia and I get genuinely scared. I'm being totally serious.

 

[WolfThomas]

I was born in 1989 and we didn't have broadband till I was 18 and only then at my father's house.

When I was in primary school I'd spend hours playing with lego once I got home, I'd build huge castle and complex siege towers before smashing them and starting again to make a pirate ship. Later on in highschool I'd play a lot of computer games that had single player, the fallouts, age of empires etc. As we progressed through highschool I was the guy who actually bought computer games and all my friends would borrow them. We'd play each night and then discuss what we'd done at school. I used to watch plenty of tv as well, I'd know when all my favourite shows were on. Weekends we'd hang out, play two player games or play pretend gun games out on our property. If we needed to talk we'd call each other's home phones (most of us didn't have mobiles or if we did the reception was appalling).

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

Videogames. Nintendo and such. Sega Genesis. Cartoons.

You know, the good days.

I'm not that old though so I've had internet for a good portion of my life.

 

[Throwitawaynow]

I went outside before the internet, all the sports offered, I played. Then I got a computer and my first games were Diablo 2, Counter Strike, and Icewind Dale. You can probably tell from those 3 games what happened.

 

[Elvoret]

Hrm.
Well I remember playing videogames a little, though I wasn't alowed to often when I was younger.
I was and still am an avid reader, that's what occupied me the most.

I first discovered use of the internet at secondary school. I think I played BattleOn or something during a luch break. Of course, there was also RuneScape and later things like Knightonline or Guild wars, but the internet didn't waste all my time (Screw YOU TV tropes and Dwarf Fortress) until a year or two ago.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

Let's just say that there was A LOT of television and LEGO. Oh, and a lot more bike riding.

 

[Canned Spam]

I was too busy not existing before I had the internet.

 

[KungFuCthulhu]

I played in the mud.

 

[Saelune]

Video games and LEGOs. One major difference is though, before the internet, buying games was more magical. Mostly because I was never privy to new games and simply went to Toys R Us and looked around until I found something interesting. Now though, I know what I will be buying all the way through to November (Skyrim)

 

[ChupathingyX]

Playing Crash Bandicoot and Spyro with my friends and cousin on my Playstation and watching Nickelodeon back when it was good.

 

[Wolfwind]

Well, I read a lot more, that's for sure. I also used to write. I hung out outside more too. And I played a lot more video games.....

 

[Nemu]

I was a kid, so platform games and playing outside.


Well... I still did that stuff as an adult, I only really got INVESTED in being on the net a lot once I took a night job.

 

[Eldarion]

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

Hey, we are the same age!!!

I too remember a time before the internet, not very much about that time though.

 

[maiiau]

Coloring books and Sega Genesis and Game Boy and Littlest Pet Shop... I was not really that old when I first got online.

 

[Vault101]

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

Hey, we are the same age!!!

I too remember a time before the internet, not very much about that time though.

You may a little older than me since I was born in december, also I was technically one of the oldest in our class (technical stuff with school enrollments) which was REALLY luckey becuase most of the class above us were dumb assholes (not all of them) where as as a class we were really close and good freinds (small school)

 

[NeoShinGundam]

I remember playing a lot of board games, but being an only child made that get tedious since I was trying to be more than one player at a time. Then I'd try to build a fort with the game boards.

 

[geldonyetich]

Dailup bulletin board systems [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_systems], mostly.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I spent a lot more time watching TV, kicking a ball around, reading and playing video games on the consoles of the time. I think we got an internet connection at home in 1996 or thereabouts, so I was 13.

Since the internet, the only one of those things I still do is playing video games. I'm far too lazy and unfit to do any sort of sports, I got completely out of the habit of watching TV when I went to university and didn't have one (downside: I spend more on DVDs now, to catch up on the few shows that still interest me) and every time I pick up a book I get a nagging feeling that I've got better things to do with my time, so I can't concentrate on it.