How did society pass the time before the Internet?

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We went outside and interacted with other people.

this pic made me feel weird

We did Qualudes

We drank beer and did whippets and went out to clubs. We'd go to the train station and buy hash from the Moroccans but then the Turks took their territory over. Morrocan hash peddlers are pretty awesome, Turks are all dicks. I grew up in Germany though on and near US bases so for US kids it was probably stealing beers and huffing paint.
The basic thing is you spent time with people.

fucking goats, masturbating, staring at the sky in the afternoon, and the stars at night, fucking their wives, fucking their children, raping, pillaging... build something, burn something down, start a fire, shiver, die of starvation, do some farming or planting. The internet has truly rotted your brain, try to imagine what you might have done if you were a subsistence farmer, its pretty fucking simple.

I...is Sam home?

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reading and communicating, the same things you do on the internet, dipshit.

We actually went outside and did stuff.

By jerking off behind that Blockbuster after school.

As a kid 6-11, got into trouble doing shit outside
>Buddy had a cart, I would stand in the back of
>Brakes didn't work, ground down a few pairs of shoes that summer
>Throttle cable stuck once, crashed into a tree, flew over go cart, cracked skull on tree
>Tried to hide it till mom saw blood drip down my cheek during dinner then noticed pupils were dialated
>Aside from that we had bikes, pocket knives, binoculars, and pellet rifles
>Made traps and shitty weapons
>Killed snakes, birds, squirrels, rabbits, cooked them over makeshift fire
>Picked berries, honeysuckles, and fished in a shitty pond full of turtles

As a teen, played tackle football with no pads in a shitty field till sun went down with neighborhood kids
>Dislocated shoulder, sprained ankle, cracked ribs

When I got a computer softmore year in highschool, immediately got into programming and internet. Only outdoor activity still do to this day is fishing.

praying, fasting, attending services and shit

Such a better time. No easy access to porn, albeit the pussy access is better but of lesser quality now. No continuation of high school bullshit. Although more people are aware now of the insidious nature within some groups it may not be enough to stop the degradation. In so many ways those that lived before the net have more in common with every person who lived in history as compared to those that grew up with internet.

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One thing I sort of miss is waiting for your group to show up. You either made plans before you split up or called everyone individually. That was the plan, you stuck with it, and you'd all meet up at some public place. I miss waiting near my local movie theater with nothing but my thoughts to kill time.

i hung out with friends and did stuff. now it's all internet all the time. fml

This and tv. Talking to someone while watching a show was basically the internet back then.

For me as a kid

>ride bikes with friends
>explore shit
>hang out and play multi screen goldeneye
>hang out in store parkinf lots and drink until somone called cops
>sex
>paintball

Riding bikes, playing smear the queer, playing king of the hill, playing kick the jew, shooting BB guns and slingshots, hiding porno magazines in the forest, lighting things on fire, making fertilizer bombs, making gun powder, ding-dong-ditch, playing Golden-eye N64 with 3 other ppl and always choosing Oddjob.

Sometimes you'd just randomly show up to a friends house too. That doesn't happen anymore. No one just shows up unannounced these days

Church. Board games. Watching movies as a family on the couch. Going on trips. Shopping. Raising pets. Raising kids. Taking up sports and leisure hobbies. Producing something meaningful to society or the family.

My childhood was pre internet and my high school/college years pre smart phone. The rot definitely set in once we got a computer with internet during late middle school and once social media came out during college, but even then we still did things away from the internet. We used to listen to entire albums in small groups and drink/smoke. We used to play Monopoly for hours. We used to hook up the NES and do 2player games, taking turns. I remember one summer as a kid we built a rope swing at my friends. It was magic. So many hours just fucking around with that thing, jumping into the pool.

Shit, I remember I used to walk to my friends houses all the time, even across town. And parties in high school were legitimate parties like you see in movies. No phones. No social media or YouTube to distract. I remember the first time I ordered a DVD through Netflix it was like magic. And then when streaming started it was like the heavens themselves opened up. But it never quite matched staying up late watching cable tv or renting movies from the video store with your buds.

I hate what society has become. My daughter won’t know these joys. Even if I force them on her, it will only disservice her among her peers.

Gen Z and the youngest Millennials just don’t get it. Life was better before the internet and social media and smart phones. It just was.

>always choosing Oddjob.
fuck you.

oldfag detected

because randomness and creativity is dangerous for the effectiveness

thou shall not be random and ineffective!

which renders joy impossible

Before internet as kids we passed the time:
Skateboarding
Riding bikes
Making swords and axes from pvc and wooding and beating the shit out of each other
Trick-Or-Treating
Egging houses and smashing pumpkins after Trick-Or-Treating
Hitting up the corner store for a soda
Dirt jumping bikes in the empty field at the end of the neighborhood
Spraying wasp nests with Super Soakers
Playing hackey sack
Learning guitar and playing in bands
Reading

Life was good.

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yet you are teased with "random" things which in face are carefully concoted

We used to ride around and throw eggs at niggers.

I always picked oddjob. He was my favorite bond character, hands down. It's not my fault they made him so short.

When we got cars, we used to terrorize homeless people in the night. I'm not proud yet they're still pretty funny memories in my mind.

We had a rule, no OddJob, no Jaws. I was good at that game...I would use the radar to aim instead of looking at the actual screen. Man, good times.

That makes me sad, I miss the video rental days

I guess this is the oldfag memories thread now. lol. Modernity sucks ass, I'd reverse the last 25 years of "progress" in a heartbeat.

Socializing. Gen Z is socially autistic.

They didn't. That is why they were so slow.

>We had a rule, no OddJob
same

Lmao actually though. First thing me and my friends did when one of us got a car was go out on mischief night to wreck niggers with eggs. We also trashed the school, drew swastikas on the windows with bars of soap all sorts of retarded shit. We didn't even make local news for that fuckery, in 2018 you'd be a national headline and going to court for it.

Putting rollypollies into a hot wheels traffic jam and setting the whole thing on fire with lighter fluid

Yeah, I had a buddy who used to stock shelves for Publix. During his shift he would hide eggs out back and when he got off we'd pick him up along with the eggs. We went out with like seventy five dozen a few nights. The back of a pickup with a pile of beers and a pile of eggs... good times.

I liked him cause he was a fat ass

You would hang out with friends and do something and develop live interpersonal and group relationships

That was the shit. I did that a lot. Esp for dinner

By being social and having passions. Just stop for a second and imagine that, OP.

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No doubt, specially when it comes to cars.

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Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I actually played outside with neighborhood kids. I remember digging out a huge go-kart track in the field across from my house until someone's parents got mad that we were "ruining their backyard". Fuck, I was an active kid. Running around with buddies, kicking over huge antpiles, getting into Super Soaker fights, playing Manhunt, teasing nieghborhood dogs, getting into small scuffles and then making up in 10 minutes. Things changed a bit when kids started getting NESes, but everyone still hung out, splitting time between playing outdoors and messing about with all the old random NES games that kids' parents would pick up from used game bins in video stores and the like. SNES made us stay in even more, and by the time N64 came out, the streets were abandoned. Granted, we were all in high school by that time, but even the younger kids who used to play out there and were starting to form their own groups, stopped going out. It was a combination of STRANGER DANGER brainwashing people and video games reaching a point that they were more immediately attractive to kids. The perfect storm to end the adventurous nature of youth. I miss it sometimes.

That sounds fun man. I miss having friends. You get old, life changes. People just aren't the same anymore. Even if you want to socialize, other people don't. They've got vidya, phones, porn, NFL, whatever. The people that do want to socialize in meatspace dumb cunts. No, I don't want to go play MTG at the comic store with fat 40 year old retards.

Youngfags, appreciate what you've got while you've got it. Life passes in the blink of an eye.

Arcades and fucking

You did something useful with your time instead of getting your reward system fried by useless shit

So pretty much 60% of threads on this hellhole board?

The cars in the 90's were so great. I'm still driving them, actually. Jap cars from that time are just perfection. Driving an NA Miata now, my first one. Also have had lots of Hondas/ Acuras. It's sad, even Honda sucks ass now...look at the Civic "Type R"... what were they thinking?

Some day I'll have a garage full of FDs, Integra Type Rs, MR2s, and maybe a Geo Metro with a Hayabusa motor lol.

Right. It's better than another "Fuck white women" thread.

I'm saving for a house right now so I can store a collection like that. My next buy will be an AW11 MR2

90s asthetic was perfect

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Excellent taste. I'm saving for a Flyin' Miata turbo kit. I used to poke fun at Miatas but hell, it's the funnest thing I've ever driven. I guess one advantage to aging is I don't give a fuck about what anyone thinks anymore.

play Goldeneye or NWO vs WCW with friends in person

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I also miss summoning stones.

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We went outside and did non-virtual entertainment. Story line wasn't always that great but the graphics were amazingly detailed.

Shitposting on a bulliten board system using 14.4 mbps dial-up modem speeds on a free 30 day trial of America Online.

Miatas are great, and the flying miata parts are as good as the hype. Just got to do your thing, I plan on getting a good condition NA later on. I had a real beater one when I was younger I got for like $700. lol

Play using slaps only

>How did society pass the time before the Internet?
spent it repeatedly redialing the movie theater to find out what's playing.

Reward system is fried alright. Instant access all you can eat free porn, online shopping, online gambling and social media. Hookup apps are like the shit cherry on the shit cake. Now none of those things are bad in themselves (maybe the porn) but we can't adapt to always having instant gratification. It's too much.

You did that before the internet? That was clever

same

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We went outside, rode bikes, went to friends house to play Nintendo.

Going for a walk, meeting with friends etc
Its not like back then a day had 70 hours
You still only had a few hours a day to actually do something, and if you read a book or watch a few youtube videos today, isnt that great
The weekends were lit though, when you didnt have school or work, you would do funny stuff all day

I find the fact that people before the internet and the lack of narcist self propagation of your achievements and your inner self through social media, which evolved into real life, more interesting
People back then were normal, today i dont know a single person who is normal
No one has a conversation anymore, just 2 people throwing statements into the room
Its sick
Also the constant serotonin triggering of smartphones made people impatient and boring as fuck

All true statements. Sad as hell.
I want to unplug. I don't use Facebook and shit like that. But I'm a web developer...I spent 80% of my waking hours on the damn computer and it's becoming a living hell. What am I going to do though, quit and work retail? Fuck.

We used to do all kinds of horseshit. It was great before everything was digitally tracked.

I remember back in the early 80s there was a pedophile in our small town, so we'd have my friend's little brother call him up and ask if he could buy a case of beer for him and his little friends. Then when the creep would show up with the beer we'd take it and throw rocks at his car as he drove away.

Pedophiles are so fucked we were able to do that like every two weeks for one whole summer. We used to have recordings of all those phone calls -- and lots of other hilarious prank calls-- but I have no idea where they are now. We would drink the beers and laugh hysterically at the tapes.

We went to war with France and then Germany. Good times.

Actual socialization

played streetfighter without end and rented american ninja a douzen times.

Killed everything with fur or feathers with BB gun

Built forts

Burned the woods down

Throw rocks at cars

Break into construction sites

Run from the cops

Hell that was just on any given Saturday

13F. Fire Support Specialist. You go out with the grunts and do all the war larping in the woods with them but you have the power to call down fire from the heavens if an officer tells you to. Be all that you can be.
Fisters have a much better life in batt so get RASP in your contract, try your hardest and then take what you learn into your unit when you wash out and prepare for your second go at RASP.

I think people really fucked more.

totally

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meant to be

Beat up minorities

0311 here, I already did that shit. Had some good times, had some really bad times. My body is too broken now. I've thought about welding, oil field work...anything. But salaries can't really compete with what I get sitting in my underwear.

i was like 6 at the time when it was out and my older brothers were like 12 and 13. I would go Oddjob cause i was a wee guy and that's the kind of thing they do.

For some weird reason we all thought Ourumov was faster than the other characters, and there'd always be a clamour to go Ouromov.
maybe its cos he runs fast away from you in the Silo level. I really don't know. There was also a rumour Valentin had more health.

>Play with lighters, started a large fire under a bridge(!), we tried to put it out, had to get neighboors.
>Stepped on a thick nail that was 10cm long
>At one point i got a large boulder in my head
>Found a building site in the forest, broke into machines and had fireextinguisher wars
>Fireworks were legal and just fun
>Me and a friend actually made a lot of money selling cakes for a fake football theme
>Biked down to the town centre too see what's going on, we knew everybody
>Peed on an electrical fence
>Ridden a frantic sheep
>Dared a friend to put his hand inside cowdung, i remember he said it was still warm
>Built a fucking house in a tree, several stories high
>Found my uncles gigantic porn collection, porn magazines a meter tall stacked

>>Peed on an electrical fence
Yeah I know that pain.

>Ctrl-f
I just knew it would be a matter of time before someone mentioned riding bicycles and woods porn.
For all you young folks out there, yeah, this was a thing.

Hah. Draw stuff in lines with Comet cleanser, douse in lighter fluid, set on fire. It hardens into concrete-like substance that has to be chiseled off of sidewalk/car/whatever.

Just made this picture my desktop wall paper. I never change desk top wall paper. This will be my desktop for the next ten years probably.

>woods porn.
I am always amazed that it wasn't just some odd thing in Sweden but truly global

>woods porn
I came across this too. What was the source of this porn laying in the woods? Heterosexual guys getting head from dudes out of desperation and using straight porn make it all easier? then ditching the porn before going home to a headless household?

I made woods porn. I was moving out and didn't want my mom finding my porn mags.

Lair. You where getting blown by dudes.

>you’ll never be 11 years old again and have your parents take you to block buster to pick out a movie and a game and come back home to spend a nice comfy evening

Depends on how far from Internet age.
I grew up right exactly before it came to be.

There were still videogames like NES and SNES, etc.
Or computer games like Sam and Max and Putt Putt
Encyclopedias was the shit.
Every house had to have one.

People had more books and read more.
Women sew and did their crafts more.
Men hung out with other men, probably drinking or engaging in conversations and hobbies.
Teens were never home, socializing was the shit.

Nailed it

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by using rotary phones and waiting for someone to pick up on the other side, if no one picks up then we would walk/drive to said persons house and knock on doors until answer then with said person we would go outside and sit on benches and talk/drink/shoot shit