So what did you guys do before the internet was a thing ?

Stayed indoors. To play chess or Lego.

BBS @ 300bps dial-up. Started around '85. Before that I used IBM's corporate VNET - sort of a company internet.

played outside
when at home, played bugs bunny: lost in time

I was born after the internet, but I personally didn't have much access to it until I was 10 or 11.

We did normal kid shit, like playing on the playground, throw things at each other, ride bikes, and play vidya on the N64. Once I got a little older, I managed to piece a computer together from old systems at mom's office and played shit like gmod and CS.

Kids these days (oh god I'm there now) will have basically been plugged into the internet from when they can first operate a tablet. Not saying it's necessarily a bad thing, but for most people circa 2003 (my formative child years) the internet wasn't an always-on type of thing.

I don't think there are many people here that can remember not having the internet in their home. I'm 30 and we got 56k dial-up when I was about 8 I think. I remember going on it occasionally but I only really started to get to grips with the internet when I was about 11 or 12. I barely remember what it was like not having access to it.

Watch tv and fap at every woman.

>that feel when the early 1990s was 40 years ago

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Stayed at home fucking around with the PC (who needs internet when you have CD magazines with hundreds of freeware/shareware software)? And playing on the Famicom.
I didn't get internet until 2010, and I'm only 25.
I unironically enjoyed computers more back then, now I'm a bit disgusted.

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Radio , lots of radio and TV. I just can't understand how there is still a "music business" in 2018.
And using the landline phone to talk to your friends for hours.
And going outside to get into fights and trouble and danger and play.

tfw scrambled cable porns

Got laid.

I'm 30 and got 14.4k at 5 years old, but we still played outside and climbed trees and threw sticks at cars etc, normal outdoorsy shit. Lived near bush so use to light fires and cook shit, go hiking, that sort of stuff.

well i was
im 19

>threw sticks at cars
>normal outdoorsy shit
Devolution. Thanks internet!

Played outside, NES, SNES, Apple II, LEGOs.

Life was so carefree.

this.
theres serious damage being done to the youngest today, kids in my family watch movies 10 minutes at a time and cant hold a tablet unless theres 10 things open at once. their brains are mush and the older they get, the more interwined with a warped version of society theyre growing into.
as an adult I can segregate the shit from the value, I can make the most of the near unlimited sources of info but growing up without it I can still disconnect, back in the olden days we had nintendo and vhs but the difference was there was a separation between the electronic world and the real world, kind of like how watching a movie still feels separated today.

cant knock it too hard though, as grateful as I am growing up with media in one tab at a time most people up until the 90s were pretty fucking retarded, internets been a massive leveller there

Yeah but I think op was talking about the widespread adoption of the web. When they started teaching me about computers in school gopher was still relevant.

what I mean by that last part is during the first few years of adoption in the late 90s, there was a clear divergence between who I used to call internet people and non internet people that isnt as clear cut today.
as an analogy it was a bit like reddit v Jow Forums x100, with some people you could just tell

Had Sega mega drive, nes, commodore64, PlayStation...

Watched tv, smoked bud and banged chicks

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>buy tech magazines
>read and try out those cool hax
>make a list of those cool programs, then go to CD/DVD shops to hunt for them, try them out at home
>drool at hardware reviews
>enjoy playing around with my PC
>enjoy offline games
>enjoy lan games with friends
>watch TV (anime, cartoon, movie etc)
>read printed manga
>actually like playing outside
>found my dad porn stash, not sure if he forgot about it or left it there on purpose

As a society we continue down the path or instant gratification and ADHD
>The average shot length of English language films has declined from about 12 seconds in 1930 to about 2.5 seconds today, Cutting said. At the Academy event he showed a scatter plot with data from the British film scholar Barry Salt, who’s calculated the average shot duration in more than 15,000 movies made between 1910 and 2010.

>Not be trained to delay gratification because we no longer are forced to

Spent a lot of time outside, spent a lot of time with friends, went to the library some. Information was more precious so I studied and memorized things more carefully then. Pickup games of baseball, football, soccer, basketball, etc. just with neighborhood kids in the street. Rode my bicycle everywhere everyday. Cooked up little businesses to make money.

I remember when we did NOT have a computer, cable TV, cell phone, VCR, microwave oven, cassette tape player, game system or remote control. I was excited about my black and white TV, my first pocket calculator and my first tape recorder. I remember when I first saw a digital watch, microwave oven and first played “Pong” - it felt like I was in the future. The internet existed, but I would not first hear that word for 15 years.

Make home movies, watch VHS, i.e. go to Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, go to the movies, use telephone more often, visited friends more often, etc

read books, played with friends, dreamed and imagined stuff, watched TV (I didn't have one until I was like 8, I think), etc.

>I don't think there are many people here that can remember not having the internet in their home. I'm 30 and we got 56k dial-up when I was about 8 I think
I was poor, so I didn't even have a computer until I was 18
don't assume everyone had the same life experience as you

Pester my mother to drive me to the library and get half a dozen Redwall/Pendragon/Harry Potter/Norby/Hardy Boys books

Read

Same here, good times.

I wasnt born before the internet,
and yes, i am 18

Play chess with my friends,study,read everything i can get my hands on (ex-communist country,so books were rare).
This is all.

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>I'm 19
>that means everyone else must be too

The existence of pc/consoles changed behaviour not the arrival of internet. You didn't stop going outside when internet came to be. You stopped when the first pc/console came into your friend circle and everyone went to stay at his home playing together on the console/pc instead of outside. That extended then further with lan parties. Even if we had no internet - people would still sit at home playing games. Maybe a little bit more social as a lan is still better than sitting in completly different building but the activity wouldn't change itself.

An intranet.

third worlder or old?

based grandpa

be an egg and a seaman at the same time

>Rode my bicycle everywhere everyday
This was my bike , not my picture , but I still have the bike in my garage to this day.
It's not factory new though it needs to be restored.
It still has the mag spoke wheels.

I had a Diamondback but that got cracked in half when I bunnyhopped a curb and the back wheel hit the curb. It was the version with the pegs built into the frame.
The GT Freestyle Tour never broke. I used to do tricks and ride it from one end of the city to the other.

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Be happy

well i was born in 2001.
so i grew up with the internet being a thing, but only really used it at the age of 12, so i guess i went outside and played with friends.

am i the only one who will never let their kids have a smartphone or a computer until they are somewhat mature at the age of 12 or 13 so they don't grow up to be weak little fags?

>before the internet was a thing
I can't remember the time, but my earliest memories of the internet was 1000 Free Hours of AOL and screwing around on Cartoon Network's website.

>well i was born in 2001.

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>BBS @ 300bps dial-up. Started around '85. Before that I used IBM's corporate VNET - sort of a company internet.

Same with 56k dial-up.
I didn't expected anyone here knows what a BBS is.

never thought about killing myself

Was happy

im not the lad who made the original post saying everyone was
calm down

Went to school, and got home to either watch shit non-cable tv or re-read one more time the same comic books I had for years because parents were alkies and druggies and wouldn't buy me more of them or get me anything else to do.
Quite honestly, thank god for this shit. Be praised a million times, even how disgusting most of it became since I got here.

This. I went outside and got into fights with the local culturally enriched children before I got my first gameboy. Consoles/Internet were a blessing and I only missed a childhood of getting robbed and forming a drug habit

I jerked off to my neighbours' daughters through the windows.

did you also steal eggs from the fridge to poop them out like yoshi? my friend did haha

Collective unconscious and Schumann resonances, duh

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> but the difference was there was a separation between the electronic world and the real world
What we called 'the real world' a few years ago would seem as artiificial and subjective for someone from another epoch as anything else. All there is are modules of the perception of a world, and means to mediate our relations with that template. For present society there are no distinctions between electronic and real, the reality is physical + virtual simultaneously. It's just a change of configuration, just like many happened throughout history.

I would go on hotwheels.com

Played card games with neighborhood kids. Was alright while it lasted.

Played with Lego

i did this too.
one day they got one of those big inflatable pools in their yard and i nearly damaged my junk

>Not being born
The internet was a thing even in the 90s, but bloomed in the 2000s
feels good to have grown up with technology

Windows 95 started it all , that's why he's so rich ,
before windows 95 it was all about Grunge

actually Prodigy and Compuserve were a thing before 95 I believe I'm not sure

played snes and megadrive games all alone

masturbated
messed with car engines
Operated IBM mainframes for a corporation
masturbated
went to the pub
masturbated
(go to the top of the list again)

I was just chillin in my dad's nuts

How did it feel when you, like, became a part of a part that was your mom?

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Built forts in the woods. Used to run around with sticks and beat up trees

was swimming in my dads balls

Watched skinemax

Played outside

Watched Tiny Toon Adventures and played Sonic the Hedgehog on my Sega Genesis while eating some Dunkaroos.

Nah I'm unfortunately too stupid/autistic to think of something so clever - plus we were pretty poor so my mom would have beaten me if I wasted food like that.

Play outside, play video games that came on cartridges, throw rocks at the Indians.

This

Old

Your children will look back upon your lives and think them primitive, just as you do mine.

Fap to froot loops so the milk lasted longer

Ride a bike, play with lego and matchbox cars, and play video games.

We actually fapped to the lingerie or swimsuit section of the Sears catalog, a great big book of shit for sale you got every year.

Masturbate to porn on VHS

Ran up a $100 phone bill calling a Star Trek BBS in Kentucky. I remember playing DOOM over the internet and being blown the ever living fuck away with "Death Match". Before that shit, playing outside. FPBP btw lol

I had no internet until 2005 but I bought Gambler and CD-Action magazines, and cover disks had lots of resources beyond simple game demos so I always knew what's hot and not. One cover disk of gambler had lots of software hacking tools and a program to play M:tG.

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Shat in nappies for a few years then played with dinosaur toys for a few years. I don't think my family got the internet until '96-97 but it was definitely running on windows 95.

I was reading books mostly from the library at a pace of about 4 per week since I was around 10 until I got an internet connected PC in high school.

Now it's good if I read one a year.

This. And playboy

BASIC, a lot of BASIC.

That's literally child abuse goyim

Played computer games like Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Crystal Caves, Monster Bash, pretty much anything Apogee put out. Oh, and Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Doom and Doom 2. Those were pretty much my childhood until the internet entered my life in 1991. I was born with a rare birth defect (so rare it literally doesn't have a name officially) that made it impossible for me to walk until I could have corrective surgery which consisted of cutting my leg off, rotating it and reattaching it but couldn't be done until I stopped growing, so I was wheelchair bound for the first 14 years of my life. No riding bikes or building forts or any of the other normal shit kids did when I was younger. So I learned computers. Zero regrets. I'm the one of the like 4 people from my hometown to actually do something with my life so it worked out.

smartphones worry me, if I had unlimited access to porn that I could take anywhere with me and didn't have to bother to be particularly sneaky with, I'd probably grow up to be even more of a failure than I am now.

If I were a parent of a kid that age RIGHT NOW I would give them a dumbphone until they're in middle school, and no unsupervised PC access either. But I think this option is less and less possible as times go by.

Well not like I'm going to have kids anyway.

I was happy.

I wasn't.

I also wasn't after the internet though.

I doubt he's wrong. The internet is over 50 years old. Hell, the "World Wide Web" that people erroneously refer to as "the internet" is almost 30. There's very few anons older than 30 on this board, and I'm one of them.

I'm just glad that I did all my really stupid, embarrassing bullshit years before people started walking around with camcorders in their pocket that are connected to the internet. That would've sucked shit. There were plenty enough times when I'd have to talk someone out of posting embarrassing pictures to email lists after parties when digital cameras started becoming affordable.