Why did people in the 1980's have a healthier relationship with the internet and computers than people today...

This and titties. And 0 day warez. Op is an idiot, i spent just as much time on the internet back then. I just spent it usually watch a % download meter.

Internet was reserved for hobbyists. You used to go online to escape normies, now they're online

>Limited access
>Limited functionality
>Slow speeds

Phoneposters caused cancer to the internet.

mpbp (my post best post)
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I was an addict from 1997 on

that's why the deep web was created tp lure the hobbyists to the honeypot that is the deep web
>johnson identity is through the roof!
>ask congress for 100 million for next year's budget

>women and niggers
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>people couldn't phonepost in the eightie-

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They were white and they could get jobs that paid for a home and could raise a family.

Are you an immigrant? I can't believe that a regular cunt in Britain wouldn't have the internet in 2010.

I personally had it in around 2006

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Everything on the internet used to exist either as a passion project or repository of information. It all went to shit when the internet became a way to generate revenue. Very few people are delivering content simply because they love it. Those that are are doing it through services that generate revenue from their passion.

The internet was ruined when content was monetized

I first got the internet in '97 using a 33.3k modem. Never paid for it though because of free internet CDs.

fucking KEK

Actually it was fascinating the kind of content they posted back then. Google groups has some of usenet/newsgroups archived so you can find posts as old as 1979 about various topics.

Even social political topics, here's an example attached.

You can go to groups.google.com and set the date on the filter to as early as possible then put in keywords. A lot of the content was lost as Google could not obtain everything.

And most people were either posting from university computers or from companies like IBM, NASA, some smaller private companies, etc. The level of aptitude and effort was on another level, and obviously people were more educated since the majority were in colleges, and back then college was harder to get into than it is now. And now anyone can post, and 2/3rds of people don't have a degree. Of course the amount of effort to actually post back then also was a factor since you can't just shitpost while on the toilet on your phone, you have to wait for the connection to go through and all that.

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lack of information. we have way too much now. makes us all insane.

Checked here. A lot of truth in this. The only time the internet was about monetization then was from independent real life work or content.

because you had to have a modicum of intelligence to use computers and access BBSes and then the Internet. It was mainly white people and rich foreigners.

Then (((Apple))) released the iPhone and any fucking idiot normie could get on the internet.

Based and WOPRpilled

>he thinks normal people were using the internet in the 80s

Also what was interesting reading these posts was that they hardly ever used "white" back then, they always used "Caucasian". I don't even agree with the term Caucasian though because in Russian they only use it to refer to Chechens, Armenians, Georgians, etc. People literally near the Caucus mountains.

People were calmer then of course. The 60s were not so far off so everyone still had a little bit of a zen buzz going on. Surely that's obvious.

Looking through 80's magazines, some of the computer ads seem aimed at normies, or at least at normie professionals. Not necessarily just tech people.

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poorfag. 1989 here, when everything was still BBS services and Usenet.

Because thots and retarded niggers didn't use it.

The internet use to be a place for the educated, mid to upper class citizens. Internet culture use to run separate from pop culture as opposed to today where it is entwined. It use to be a new creative, nerdy hobby rather than just part of daily life.

I can tell you from talking to people who were actually online back then and also seeing the posts themselves archived on groups.google.com, it was mostly university students, government workers, and IBM/.NASA/etc

Then go get on irc or a bbs let start a revolution you fuckin contributor

>Caucasian
Yes, I remember always spelling that wrong in school and being mad that I could just write "white".

>Caused by computer use
Chicken or egg?

1998 here.

The technology wasn't as advanced and accessible? I'm a zoomer but everyone should know this.

I was programming in the 80's. I knew of he BBS boards and some people had modems back then. I didn't really use the internet until the early 90's. Damn, those dial ups are still ringing in my ears.

Internet turned to crap once social media and smart phones came around. I think the smart phones killed it the most because too many people are constantly plugged in. Social media really has been around for a long time. Pre-twitter and Facebook days. BBS was were it was at. I used to have fun on AOL hanging around with some of the groups there too.

Because there was still a society outside to sustain them

Because the only people fucking with computers back then were bill gates and other millionaire innovators. Not a bunch of man children playing vidya.

Nice try.

1) You couldn't hog up the family/house phone line all day just for your internet connection.
2) You had to plan for when you were going to use it. It wasn't always right there for you to access it.
3) Companies weren't forcing you to use online accounts for business.
4) All of your friends communicated to you in person when you were just hanging out or playing basketball or something.

Get rid of your smart phone for a couple of months to see what life is like without it. I went to a flip phone a few months back. I won't text anyone. I get them and let them hang in the ether. The guy at the store was like "what if you miss something?" and I think the biggest problem lies within his statement. People are afraid of missing something. Well, not afraid of having a rewarding conversation with a stranger, catching a sunset, etc. Went on a canoe trip down the river. Saw a group of women just taking selfies. Can you imagine being out in the beautiful outdoors and only thinking about how you can get this of Facebook? Got to get that attention.

70s boom-boom here. First connected to a local university mainframe where it was all text (the original green text) and like the Love Boat, it was exciting and new.
>select all images with boats
>good one goggle

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Not enough bandwidth, inaccesible, and barerly any websites to visit. This thread is kinda dumb 2bh.

Because most people online were white, and the 80's was a totally different time culturally and economically in America. It was a golden age of optimism, innovation, and creativity.

I got online in 1983 with a 300 baud modem. Know how slow that is? About thirty characters a second. Most people who aren't mouth breathers can read faster than that. There was very little actual content online. Even an expensive paid service like Dow Jones or CompuServe was limited in what they offered compared to today. Playing door games and downloading ASCII porn was about as exciting as it got, especially in the early days.
Anyone from the late 80s/early 90s who remembers Galacticom and MajorBBS should find the book "Think A Little" written by the owner of that company. It is Jow Forums in book form decades before moot could walk.

This

I literally have to police myself by setting a rule on my computer limiting my network connectivity to 2 hours per day or else I’ll get completely engrossed. Make no mistake about it, brothers. It’s absolute poison. As is television in any form.

Enrich your critical thinking skills with a rich library of books. Gather your news through headline (not commentary) radio and a few newspapers (the critical thinking skills are for discerning the real truth from their propaganda). Use your library card.

You weren't carrying your computer around in your pocket.

I haven't owned a phone since I left IT 11 years ago. I do have my wifes old samsung note that I use to read books but it has no sim card and I never surf with it.

first MMO
Really wonder what people used to be like back on the early internet and stuff

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Perhaps this is it. We made the internet too entertaining for us and normies world became too shit.

>Why did people in the 1980's have a healthier relationship with the internet and computers than people today?
Because the normies didn't think the internet was cool. Never forget that normies will ruin EVERYTHING they get their hands on. There are no exceptions.

>Why did people in the 1980's have a healthier relationship with the internet
Because this revising content wasn't uploaded quite yet.
youtube.com/watch?v=pPgWHBQjWas&list=PLa_z3WEQ5TluFrcpZFQGsxZm2NhlkufrZ
Get it before it's gone.

Well, for one thing genius, internet was not available to us regular folk in the 80's and computers were good for playing Oregon Trail and word processing. Everything went to shit with high speed porn and Facebook. Blame them.

ROM vs RAM

We didn't have infinite saves and any content you created would take weeks to build

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Are you actually 15?

>few people had computers
>there was almost no internet to speak of in the 1980's
God I fucking hate zoomers

Enjoy this trip down memory lane:
archive.org/details/computermagazines

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There was a high barrier to entry that kept out most idiots.

think OP was trolling but then all the boomers started chiming in their nostalgia

We organized picnics and other get togethers for BBS users and I don't recall ever seeing a non-white. When I lived in the suburbs of LA, there was one guy who looks like a spic, but he acted like everyone else. Surprisingly only about 75% of the women online during that era were fat. I know that sounds high especially since fat people weren't the norm yet but there were indeed a handful of normal looking women on BBSes.

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I bet my Dad has the original of that. I seem to remember dropping alot of jizz to that.

Keks, not just the internet. As an earlier day coder we really didn't have the option to keep compiling code. On large systems you had to submit a batch and wait until you could get through the queue. On PCs it still took a lot of work to compile say a large C++ program. Making mistakes wasn't an option. I'd have most of my code written on paper before I typed it. Would go completely through the logic trying to think of any outliers. There wasn't any "let me try this and see what happens". We had to know what was going to happen.

smartphones ruined us... then social media really did us in

I can't decide if you're a legit moron, or a trolling faggot.

So I'll just call you a dumb faggot.

First pc multiplayer game I played in the 80s was choplifter

>Well, for one thing genius, internet was not available to us regular folk in the 80's and computers were good for playing Oregon Trail and word processing. Everything went to shit with high speed porn and Facebook. Blame them.

Downloading at the speed of jpg probably helped too.

>1980s internet
You mean BBS shit that few were able to figure out how to access at the time except genuine computer nerds? Literally, you had to put an old phone receiver on your fucking modem to go online, and you can imagine how many people invested $300+ in modems plus paying long distance fees out the asshole to literally access something like Jow Forums minutes the images. The internet didn't REALLY become a "thing" for many people until the mid-90s, and not really for everyone until the early 2000s.
Also, there were vidya addicts way back then. I spent weeks in my room playing Ultima 2 without leaving when I was just about 10 years old, my 19 year old brother eventually got hooked on playing shit with his girlfriend that they'd kick me out of my room to map out dungeons for Wizardry and shit like that. Addictive personalities gonna be addictive, I guess.
But, your troll post aside, unless you were a game addict or hooked on talking to anonymous faggots on BBS sites, you got bored of staying glued to the screen after a few hours and wanted to go out and do shit.

Because they were about the price of a new car.

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They were expensive as fuck and you actually had to have a brain to use it.
They were financially and mentally prohibitive.

This

>standard 64k ram
God dam that’s sweet rig, those specs seem a little overkill tho.

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>AOL instant messenger
>did everything Discord did and more
>was made 20 years ago
>died out

>Discord comes around, an inferior AOL
>but because it's "online" and you don't have to install a program, it's hyper normie friendly even though it has barely 20% of the features AOL did

Discord truly is a cancer

If only I could take my 16 gigs back to 1981, someone would have to sell the world to afford it.

The 80s? 99.99% of people didn't even know what it was back then.

How would you be able to interface it with a computer of that era?

Back in the 80s, people still used typewriters. Most people didn't even own computers.

Software wasn't bloated garbage back then either.

Or, just passing on the lore and legends, so the youngbloods can appreciate the current timeline. I sure don't miss 28.8k dialup - although the sound of a modem handshaking was rather comfy.

I think AOL could make a comeback. I've thought about building something myself. Nothing on the site would be public or freely accessible from the internet.

DARPA will figure it out or already had by then.

youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c

>Bring a modern rig, 32gigs of ram, i9 processor (any generation)
>sell for half of a wealthy country's annual GDP because its literally more powerful than every other computer on earth combined
>all data has to be entered manually because usb storage hasnt been invented yet and pcpartpicker doesnt have reel-to-reel magnetic storage at a reasonable price

No normal person had access to the internet in the 80's and that internet was not even remotely close to what we have today.
What we did in the 80's was to socialize face to face, playing cards or board games, playing outdoors, etc. But you are right it was way more healthy.

youtu.be/PF7EpEnglgk

This is a cool video. Kids react to a computer from the late 70's early 80's.

This AD isnt referring to the internet though. its a direct dialup to a bank's modem pool.

Dat's bootiful user-san. Thanky much.

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I still have the floppy's
>Damn these graphics are amazing.

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There were less Starbucks liberals because the iPhone didn't exist.

Good for you user. I can't wait for the next Carrington Event.

Go find ibm computer. Inspect keyboard. The 'enter' button means 'command entry.'. Inspect cell phone prompts. All say 'submit' as in 'submit request'. Its not a coincidence. Its planned. Take away your power to choose. Subconscious manipulated to accept dominance from computational institutional illusions.

Ive been online since 1993

puppy love

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