How boomers lived without the internet in the past

I have both though

This!

>& kys fucking zoomer

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i would go to kfc after school buy a drink cup and sit for 3 hours with another nerd posting (saying) back and forth exactly what i post on here, /tv/ and v. It was really like this because the other nerd wasn't really your friend, just someone to argue with about this stuff

like nothing

1982 here
We played video games.

Getting patches for pc games or cheat codes was a pain. Got the later mainly from word of mouth.

They had the MTV

I had dial up no gf.
The web felt new and exciting, but slow as shit on my Amiga, then a little faster on my 386

I was one time stuck at one spot in a video game for months, but I wanted to finish it no matter what because I loved that game.
The only person that I knew who ever played that game was my cousin, but he lived far away and never was home when I called my aunt.

Life is way the fuck better if you aren't addicted to weird glowing squares of infinite information. I should know, as I am a junkie for that addiction.

Millennials are not boomers. Slow down, I like Doom a lot too.

Gen X are not even boomers and your dad was Gen X if he had arcades and D&D and shit around as a kid.

Boomers had passtimes like being an amateur musician (which is why every boomer had a band when they were younger) and reading a lot of Isaac Asmiov stories while stoned and the best-selling title, Draft Dodging (tm).

I guess what I'm saying is if you're 27 and call yourself a boomer you get the gulag

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>mfw I beat king k rool in dk 64 as a 6 year old

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This. There was a vast network of copied floppy disks and cassettes. Games were more difficult and took longer which filled up the time.

They also took a fuck ton of time to load in to. This also failed occasionally. But great days though.
Better than the fucked up shit we have today.

When you wanted something you couldn't get at the store you flipped through a painfully disorganized catalog with no index to find it. Then you hand wrote in the order form and mailed it because you're in Maine and the place is in California, and you were too cheap for the long distance call. Then it came in a few weeks. Fun!

the thing i notice most, and infuriates me with aging boomers, is their faith in what other people think they know. for example my uncle is a very good mechanic, he learned is craft through years of taking apart and repairing shit. now he is precived as the absolute authority on any machine. to any boomer in my family it is completely incomprehensible that i could google the same thing and come to the same conclusions as him. im not saying research can negate experience, but damn if it cant take years off of the process. and by god help me if for example my uncle is wrong about something or shares some conventional wisdom. this sort of thing applies to just about anything a boomer dose. certain simple googleable things are just plain unknowable to them. am i making sense? i got another example, i fixed my grandmothers lawnmower by looking some shit up, well i must have gotten lucky. though that pendulum swings the other way too, i am sometimes viewed as an absolute genius when all i did was spend 5 min looking it up. I dont feel particularly smart, just capable of accepting that i dont know something and able to find out.

Games were more difficult because they had less content. The perfect storm of 'an industry that's still niche' and technology is right around 2000 when several generations of games had been built around cd's instead of floppies. That's peak PC kino before the dark ages of 00's console dominance.

Look, I get what you're going for. Trust me, I made many a snarky comment about people trying to call Zoomers Boomers when Boomers already fucking means something, learn what words mean, you god damn fellow Millennial shitstain. Frankly, I didn't even notice that he said Boomer and not Zoomer. And I don't know if that means I've become numb or if you're green or what. But you replied to me and now, apparently, I replied to you.

They allowed themselves to transition from being children to being adults

Wait. I'm drunk. OP posted a picture of a zoomer, (who at one point some of the more retarded 4channers were trying to label "boomers", shut up, that was a thing and I'm not going to let you idiots who participated live it down), but is actually talking to ACTUAL Baby Boomers (of which there are none on Jow Forums) and asking how they lived without internet? I could have sworn it was a Zoomer asking Millennial how they lived without a normie-fied internet.

I'm drunk and confused. What is this thread? Why is this thread?

>called home of my buddy
>he isn't home but is playing outside
>I gather all my friends on the way to his house
>he still isn't home or anywhere near when we arrive
>we still hang out in a large group for the rest of the day

>capable of accepting that i dont know something and able to find out.
this is an impossibility for a boomer

I'm pretty fucked up right now too but as a good moomer I survived the early no internet/dialup age by playing perfect dark until girls gone wild commercials came on and then threw a fat grizz lip in and beat one out

Well habeeb it or not, but I read books. History books, comic books, encyclopedias, books about wildlife, even technical manuals on a poor day, when there was nothing else. And, of course, my dad's old porno stash, when he wasn't watching. Yeah, I learned all about blowjobs, anal, reverse cowgirl and entry level sadomasochism by reading about those from a paper magazine. I know, sounds weird, right?

Also, don't forget that Nintendo and the Commodore 64 were already things in the 80's. And we had something called the VHS. Them were greater times than one might think.

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MTV was always full of african-americans. VIVA2 FTW.

sounds pretty gay tbqh

Obsessively read gaming/computer magazines and played medal of honour on PlayStation

Go out and rent Beta/VHS tapes. On the landline phone talking to grills if lucky. Play the guitar songbook with frens. Play radio and record with cassette tape when fav song is airing. Write songs. Play some LP records. Ride BMX bike or sk8 on the afternoons. Go to chill fastfood joint.

Those were the days when parents didn't care if their kids went home late at night. We just played outside in the afternoons till night after school. We would go to our friend's houses and play games inside and on the streets. Good times desu.

they were more physically active

zoomers are arrogant little shits

This. Growing up we went outside and rode our bikes (like in every 80s movie) mostly. We had to go knock on friend's doors to see if they were home.

My dad said he never bought a single piece of software for the clone apple iie he built, based af.

WHEN WAS -40 CELSIUM AND SCHOOLS IS CLOSED I GO OUTSIDE WITH FRENDS FOR WINTER FUNS

BUT HALF MY FRENDS BECOME HOMOSEXUAL ANOTHER HALE DIE FROM HEROIN

Hahha this
AGHHHHHHHHHGHAAAAAA I'M SO LONELY AND HORNEY

>tfw driving a car, get a page on my beeper
>its pouring rain
>find a pay phone
>get soaking wet
>the number that paged you is busy

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25 year old boomer here, I played video games, read books, played outside, and watched TV. TV was the thing back then, everyone watched it and it would suck if your parents were watching a boring show at night since there was nothing else to do. Also, you would have to use the TV guide channel too and if you missed the channel you were looking for, you would have to wait until it came scrolled through again lel

>and if you missed the channel you were looking for, you would have to wait until it came scrolled through again lel
luckily it was < 100 channels

They didnt

i miss the times were you would just go to the usual spot to hang out and see your friends, without even needing your phone or anything
you just walked out of house without autistically checking your phone and whatsapp groups for 30 minutes

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Called some boards.

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Bicycles, skateboards, lots of physical media, radio, car building/tuning, RC toys, getting drunk in the woods, road trips, concerts, etc. All the cool kids had pagers and pocket change for payphones.

In it for the artscene. Also doors.

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I had no friends so I would spend most of my time at the library checking books, comics and CDs.

books, tv, music, cinema
you dont realize you need internet until you actually get it

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We had TV and Teletext for information.

newspapers
tv
telephone
going outside to buy things

>How boomers lived without the internet in the past
Nobody here knows. We're all millennials that have grown up with the internet.

3 hrs and no (You)s. Here's one out of pity

zoomers don't even use "hoverboards" anymore user

>Also, you would have to use the TV guide channel too

Heh, my boomer dad had us a MythTV Linux DVR on a HTPC in 2004 onwards, never missed a showtime or show. Watching recordings was convienient, but was even better was being introduced to older shows, like 60s Mission Impossible. The idea we had on-demand before it was mainstream is awesome. I'm thankful to have a dad who set that shit up, and continues by restoring ThinkPads, one of 20 is mine.

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We went out and had sex. Lots of sex with each other.

are you talking about real boomers (the guys that are almost retired and blame millennials of the economy)? or are you talking about "boomers" (faggots millennials that think because they didn't fall for commie tricks they are special)?

>playing outside

Playing what though? You just stand in a field and throw balls at each other? That sounds boring as fuck.

1968 borner here. I can agree. A lot of shit about the 80s sucked: pollution, ugly cars, Depesche Mode.

But the girls rocked. Tough as shit and could dish it out. I was lucky to run in a circle with a lot of popular Chads so there was a lot of spillover opportunities for a nerd like me. And cheap cocaine. Lots of cocaine. Spandex on girls always brings back the fondest of memories.

Boomers are millennials, also referred to as generation snowflake which is quite interesting considering the initial and continued reaction to being called boomers, like pottery.

They used TV to find things to hate

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I ran around outside with a stick.

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nigga im 19 and we did all of that

american zoomers are the ones who rot themselves via regular internet usage

For the love of god, please, someone share the source for this series. I tried searching for it, but reverse search only bring up already cropped images.

Everything was fucking cool and you got most stuff from word of mouth, which added a lot of myths in between the truths. People who had anything to do with technology were in out of true passion. Nowadays it's just attention starved normies being milked dry by shitty companies.

no, Boomers are the Baby Boomers, the children of the only good generation.

Ah yes, because millenials don't have the habit of acting like they have deep knowledge out of things they've googled for 5 seconds. They also certainly aren't known for throwing massive fucking tantrums everytime someone disagrees with them on anything including screaming oppression, amirite?

No they are not, boomer.

Boomers had money that could expand a wide host of pathways.

Current kikes of today are hoarding the shekelpit leaving zoomers DEADASS broke

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we had sex with women and did sports

>nigga
you seem to be American yourself

you're dad's more Jow Forums than you

fpbp, literally entered to post this.

No gamer girls or stream thots.

kek, do you really fall for the 30yo boomer meme? are you in school?

>How boomers lived without the internet in the past
well i watched tv

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Being a firefighter?

playing videogames on Gameboy, Snes, Playstation or PC
watching TV or recorded movies on VHS
having LAN parties with friends, and forgetting that "terminator" thing so nothing works

To call someone, we use the Yellow Pages to find their number. Then you use your family's landline or go out and use the public payphone. To look for cheap stuff, we buy the newspaper and look in the classifieds section. To shitpost, we had to write/print and then mail letters to the editor. To contact someone overseas, we send letters which takes weeks for a reply. For entertainment, we had to look at the TV program guide in the newspaper for when our favorite shows will come on. If you missed it, then you can only get secondhand retelling by your friends or you managed to record it on vhs. You can rent vhs tapes at the video store. You listen to music on the radio and it was a crapshot when your jam comes on. The DJ likes to talk over your favorite songs too. You can record music on casette tapes from the radio and over time, build a bootleg collection. Porn comes in magazines or center spreads in tabloids. They are often in black and white too. You hold on to and hide your porn mag stash and swap it with friends. To play games, we had to boot our 386 computers with the DOD floppy disks and then insert the game diskette. Halfway through the game, we have to insert another diskette. To use a wordprocessor we memorized commands for Lotus 123.

DOS

>Depesche Mode.
>Bad

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40 y/o boomer here.
>A shit-ton of D&D (with books)
>Commodore and Atari games.
>Vandalizing the fuck out of people's private property at night.
>Writing BASIC to get a shitty dot-matrix printer to print a "happy birthday" banner.
>Still no gf, that's a meme.

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Encyclopedias, phone books where if you had a specific question about a specific topic you looked up a professional in the book, called one of them, and asked them for help.

I'm a 31 year old boomer from a small town. Had to go to the library if I wanted to use the internet before I was 17. I had friends, a girlfriend and a gameboy. I still have the gaemeboy but that's it.

you have some real faggy opinions

We physically brought our vidya to our friends' houses.

Kek'ed and Checked.
Especially the coke and spandex

By not being hit by trucks while staring zombielike into their cellphone screens, I imagine.

youre not a boomer, you just suck at tech. im 31 and were considered millenials by most

DAE think celphones bad??????

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dialed up to usenet from earthlink to download low rez hentai and read based af early usenet meemees like that dude that would appear in your convo if you mentioned his handle.

pirated games and warez because cyber bolice couldnt back trace you back then

You basically did the same thing you do here. Kick the shit, clown around, no filters.