What did everyone do before the iphone hit mass consumption?

what are you 45? 50? otherwise you shouldn't really be affected by the post

It may blow your mind, but there's this hole on the back of the tv that you can put a long bit of wire in and like magic, you can watch television programs. It doesn't even need to be hooked up to anything, it just dangles there!

Some of us 30 year old boomers didn't have frequent access to internet for some time.

i'm only 28.
i was 17 when the iphone launched, so my whole childhood was "pre-iphone"

Learned people skills, read books, and overall became responsible and constrained adults.

I'm 32.
We played a massive amount of console video games.
When smart phones ushered in the era of mobile games, everything went to shit.

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It didn’t go to shit.

You just got old. Nu-boomie.

>Nu-boomie
STOP
STOP THESE FUCKIG MEMES

I'm not normie enough to remember. I think they watched TV? Or maybe YouTube? I know AIM was popular until Facebook came around.

>there isn't a wiki on what happened

Guess we will never know

iphones literally changed the world

when i was a kid i played morrowind and fable on xbox religiously. my parents worked and watched tv.
at the doctors office there would be a stack of
boring magazines to flip through. in the car we had a disc binder for different albums to listen to.
i remember finding some porn magazine under my brother's bed and jacking off to it when i was like 12.

tamagotchi

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WAP

LASH OUT IF YOU MUST

IT WILL NEVER CHANGE THE FACT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE WAS A MEME

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>devise schemes just to enjoy life

i know, to think that people used to put in the effort to come up with ways to entertain themselves instead of just ingesting whatever's thrown at them through a 5 inch screen...

>morrowind and fable
my fucking guy

This. Nothing beat a good night of goldeneye on the n64 with 3 friends

one time me and a friend had a >4 hour super smash bros. (n64) match
2 level 9 bots, 99 stock
it was intense

MMORPGs and netcafes were very popular before the advent of smartphones.

Also MSN gaming zone, Age of Empires II, Diablo II etc. Consoles like the PS2, Xbox, GameCube.

tfw dad never let me play guncon games on the loungeroom tv because he thought it might damage it. i didn't really know how it worked either, so i couldn't make a good argument for it.
it seems silly now that i do know how it works (the guncon is just a light sensor, it doesn't emit anything, nor does it do anything weird with the signal to the tv, it's entirely harmless)

my best phone gaming experience was without a doubt on this thing right here. i found a slovak site that hosted hundreds of games free of charge (except i got in shit for raking in the bill for downloading so many of them). the games would run at like 30fps and were a joy to play. when i upgraded to a Nokia with a 128x128 screen, all the games were fucking laggy and almost unplayable in comparison. only ever played like 2 games on Android.

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>even on old sitcoms they're all bored and have to devise schemes just to enjoy life.
Do they just show characters watching videos of dogs surfing on their phones on new sitcoms?

i'm also curious. i saw some pop music videos recently and the majority of them shamelessly glorify the smartphone and all the cancer associated with it. i wouldn't be surprised sitcoms (if that's even a thing still) do the same to some degree.

Same thing we do today. 16 hours a day on a desktop. Smartphone are for Normie's.

I remember that. best shit ever.

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sat in front of a PC
or watched TV
before that they've read a book or listened to the radio
and before that they probably talked with people or just relaxed

yeah. it's a shame these games ran so much more smoothly on its 96x65 predecessor. Pandora Tomorrow was so much easier to play on it, despite being lower res.

watched satellite video feeds

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the only things i can really remember are playing console games, watching tv, talking to people on aim, listening to music, and reading a lot of slashdot

t. 29 year old boomer (19/20 when iphone hit mass consumption in 2009/2010)

Condescending asshole.

The first cable subscribers were in the middle of fucking nowhere where a 500M diploe wouldn't do a goddamned thing.

You're a grill, aren't you? Knew it. Fuck off back to jewbook.

You forgot to mention the annual subscription you pay for decoding premium channels

Basically this

Fuck I'm old

What do you mean? People still generally lived life they just didn't do it with a smartphone as a permanent fixture in their hands. If people wanted to get on the Internet they got on the computer. All the iPhone did is put the computer in your pocket and make it more widespread.

W
A
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Also one of the only good things in opera brpwser was WAP/WML support (to some extent)

It was actually consoles getting built-in wifi that ruined gaymen.

Before iphones
>Mass shooting
>school shooting
>Black police kill white man
>man hire hooker
>woman fuck a teenager schoolboy

After iphones
>Mass shooting videos uploaded to "social networks"
>school shooting videos uploaded to "social networks"
>Black police kill white man videos uploaded to "social networks"
>man hire hooker videos uploaded to "social networks"
>woman fuck a teenager schoolboy videos uploaded to "social networks"

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Used real phones.

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Played ps2

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I'm 30 I remember talking on AIM a lot. Most normal/cool kids were on aim too.
Everyone talks shit about kids having phones in their face 24/7, playing shit games, being vapid faggots but honestly I'm jealous. Maybe we've created a generation of morons but I find that unlikely since they say that about every young generation.

just curious how much people pay for that thing back in the day.

nobody checked these quads?

I read books and played video games. I still do that actually, although not as much now that I have a phone. I definitely think smart phones are a good thing, and I like having mine, but life wasn't that bad before them.

The few times I've broken my phone or something and had to go for a few days without one are actually really nice. It feels good not being reachable 100% of the time

>there are already zoomers here that never knew a life before widespread internet access

Knitting
Sewing
Reading books
Painting
Drawing
Baking
Board games
Flying kites
Riding bicycles
Journalling
Getting neighbours over for a game of darts/card games
Listening to music
Play sports

I hung out on IRC and watched anime.

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this plus reading newspapers, magazines and/or books.

Went on Usenet, bulletin boards, forums, and other small websites. Before that? They read books. Before that? They harvested grain and ran around barefoot in the woods. Before that? They lived in caves.

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I was in HS when the first smartphones came out. People used to just sit and talk to each other in public more or read books. Now everyone outside is glued to their phones. But the difference wasn't that big for me. I used my computer at home just like I do now. And we used chatting apps like MSN messenger to communicate. So no real big difference IMO except that you are connected 24/7 now which is mostly unnecessary and annoying.

I was 21 when I moved out of my parent's house and finally got an internet connection. I think I had pic related phone at the time. It was the shit.

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>I was 21 when I moved out of my parent's house and finally got an internet connection. I think I had pic related phone at the time. It was the shit.
did u have the men in black game bro?