Asking the old fags and people that got connected only late, how different was life before the internet came around?

You had to be somewhere at a certain time. Someone would say "I'll call you at 4", you had to wait in your house, or near the phonebox. You'd knock for someone, on the off chance. In terms of masturbating, I'd keep a scrap book of magazine and newspapers with something naked about them. I had a vcr to vcr cable (rare) so I could record naked highlights onto a master tape

You fresh little dickhead

Shut up boomer enjoy your corona

Was there young women licking public restroom toilet seats while a song plays in the background chanting "its corona time" during a global pandemic in the old days father time?

Porn came on paper.
Tinder was the personal adds in those.

Was shitposting in online forums, doing online gaming, sharing pirated games, sharing (indie) music, using emogi, even looking at shitty porn.
Back in 1985.
The only thing that has changed is the billions of normie faggots who now infest my online community.
Even Yas Forums is tame compared to the shit we were doing online in the 80s.

>The only thing that has changed is the billions of normie faggots who now infest my online community
This. 85~98 rocked. It was really the wild west, and Google didnt even exist yet.

1984. Internet was much more basic, obviously, steeper learning curve if you wanted to do anything. Patience was required, on a 56k modem you were talking a MB every 3 minutes so an average mp3 at the time (if you could find and mp3) was about 10 minute download a song.
Oh, and it wasnt filled with fucktards given such an easy ride they cant even be bothered to google shit.

>56k modem
Fancy. I was a 300 baud fag.

This. Born 1970 so of course saw/used the early information superhighway. Mp3s Napster and unreal/halo/half life/Quake was my life late 90s. Duke Nukem mid 90s. Social media and phones really did make it all shit. Used the net for schoolwork and when done for games. After that I would get off and do other real people shit

Talking shit.

>56k modem in the 80's

Talking shit.

>Mp3's in the 80's

Talking shit.

Just shut the fuck up

That mini cassette answering machine was the shit. Got my first one in 89

Yeah. In 1984 a 2400 baud modem was cash. 9600 was "business class". Want faster? Spend a grand a month for an ISDN line. 128Kbits/sec... and you pay by the minute.
Those were the days

I'm almost 30. Dunno if that qualifies. Television and movie theaters were basically keeping the attention that we now give to phones and computers.

Movie theaters really were a big deal, I personally witnessed the downfall of commercial films. I have mixed feelings honestly. Glad they're gone, because 9/10 films are dogshit... but there was just some real life charm when everyone you knew got excited to go to the movies on saturday.

>2007
Them lulz

pretty sure i dont qualify since i was born in 92 but ill contribute anyway. It was alot easier to be bored back then, i remember staring for minutes at either my video game or movie rack trying to decide which i wanted to replay again. Now there's new content for you somewhere all the time.

Born 1963. No shoulder seatbelts. Smoking in restaurants, planes, buses,even in the supermarket. B&W tv, 3 channels. Lace-up ski boots and skates. Penny candy that cost a penny. Write letters and receive letters. Local calls in my small town involved rotary dialing 4 digits.
Leaded gasoline about the same price as a pack of cigs when I was a teen- about 50 cents.
LBJ laid out a huge path of breadcrumbs to lure millions of blacks to the democrat plantation.
I couold go on but why bother? Everything is dust in the wind except Christ's love for us.

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Porn wasn't everywhere. Dirty magazines were treasures.

But we fucked more.

Gay

? Internet was only used by neckbeards before then

You are embarrasing yourself

Isnt that true

Wrong numb nuts. The internet exploded with the dotcom boom. Of course you were only five then, so you didn’t know.

Was pretty boring even in the early days of the internet.

Used to watch cable tv, and youd just keep going one channel higher through the mtv's and knockoffs trying to find a good song or a hot chick, if you were lucky by the time you got to the last channel the song on the first channel would've changed and you could start over.

Exactly this. Normie fag got his decades wrong.

not him but i dont think it's stupid to think there were different stages. Ofc the dotcom boom was one, the popularization of social media around the time he mentioned could be considered another.

I was playing MMORPG's in 97, you're full of shit.

You mean when all you retarded boomers were cashing out and crashed the market cause you thought 2000 was going to be the end of the world? Lol

(Born in '71 here) For the life of me I cannot remember things like, price of gasoline and cigarette.. But... Only one phone in the house, for caller ID? you answered the phone. If you see mom blinking the porch light it's time to go home.

I remember MTV debuting, and it being pretty awesome. CNN was brand new. Other cable stations pretty much sucked. For games I had an Atari 2600, NES, and my buddy had a Commodore64 from the Shack. Sears was also starting to sell computers and I loved the movie War Games.

Aside the Cold War things seemed simpler and more honest. Everyone talks shit about you online now behind your back.

That was Gen X, and the dotcom bust had nothing to do with YK2.

Jerked off to playboy or swimsuit models. Watched a lot of TV. Bought things at the store. Basically what boomers do right now.

No moron when the underlying assets were revealed to not have near the value they claimed to have. Go study fucking history before you accuse an entire generation (and the wrong one at that) of doing something negligent.

born 93 didnt have a computer until late 90's but never used it. only neck beard weirdos used computers recreationally back then. saw the rise of social media in my early teens which was a boom in normie internet usage. the ny form of entertainment outside of playing was vhs tapes and the 5 channels on an analogue tv. funny to think how much has changed in so short a time.

Agreed the internet was pretty useful but didn't dominate social life until Facebook.

The internet was a big deal before the year 2000 you dumb fucking faggot, just stop.

im sorry

BBSes, then Prodigy, AOL, and Compuserv

Yeah for us it was go home when the street lights came on. And you better have cleaned up before you sat down to dinner.

not for normies. think outside of your perspective

Are you saying the evolution of the internet is causing your suicidal thoughts?

Nice B8

YES FOR NORMIES. Soccer moms were paying for dial up starting in the mid 90's. By the late 90's damn near every household was paying 20 bucks a month or less for unlimited dial up. Then broadband slowly started taking over.

Look in 2000 only 50% of telecommunications used the internet by 2007 it was 98%. So by 2007 everyone was using it hence why I think 2007 is the year it became a big deal

And hence why you're a dumb fucking faggot.

Old fag born in 1961.

Had a party line telephone. You didn’t pick up until it ring twice. If it rang once, it was for some other household sharing the line.

Some long distant phone calls overseas required the operator to call you back once a connection was made.

During the summer parents let us out after breakfast, might see us at lunch, and might not see us until dinner.

No fucking ticks or Lyme disease.

Girls braless in halter tops, short shorts, with clogs. Oh yeah.

Porn was magazines which you stole off an older brother. Many porn mags didn’t go pink until I was late teens,

Almost no sex education.

The problem isn't social media. It was the cheap access to the internet for the masses that destroyed the internet. Because the masses use it do do all other aspects that go along with keeping the masses in check.

It was being talked about on the news. Constantly. There were movies (The Matrix, Hackers, The Net, etc) that popularized it more so. There was even a computer virus that caused the whole world to freak out in 1991 called the Michaelangelo virus.

Please stop pretending you know what you’re talking about and just stfu.

>bored middle class mums

not around here chap

think outside of your perspective

It's not like I lived in a major city. The big deal with dial up was getting it with a local number so we didnt get raped with long distance charges on the phone bill.

Before the internet there were BBS's
All the CP you could consume without all the worry

Born 1962. Fapped to Playboys and Penthouse. Always wanted to get out of the house.

After that was Usenet. They had the best porn.

turd

if you really think people where using the internet as universally as they are now in the fucking 90's you must have had a brain enema.

But most people didn't give a fuck. It wasn't a requirement for life like it became after 2010. You didn't need the internet for schooling or finding jobs in 1995

Same year, same story

TV was such slim pickings that fingermouse was something I genuinely looked forward to as a kid.

Never said or suggested that. The original prop was that it didn’t explode until 2007. And that’s just blatantly wrong.

We never had the internet in my house, my mum had a big computor, and she only used it for solitaire. I remember sending my first 'email' saying hi to my aunt back in like 2006/7 and being blown away the concept. I had to go to the internet cafe and write down/print out stuff for pokemon from serebii. We couldnt affort actual internet at home till like 08/9 honestly.

Agree with user
Internet (or world wide web) started taking off around 1996. That's when Netscape introduced a point and click web browser that made the internet accessible to people who didn't know how to use a computer.