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11224021 No.11224021 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone here born before 1970 or earlier?

What the FUCK was life like before the internet?

>inb4 "i was born in 1990 and never used the internet"

I'm talking about being a 20+ year old without the internet even being a thing yet

>> No.11224082

>>11224021

i was born in 1983 and i remember life before the internet, my first computer was a commodore 64 I was at least 13 or 14 before I ever used it

>> No.11224183

Based on what my parents told me, people would rely on TV, radio and newspapers for information. Young people would hang out at bars, play pool, go to discos/concerts, play sports, join clubs, etc. If you wanted to learn something, you would need to go some library. If you were driving and got lost, you would need to use a map or ask questions. If you were bored and on a train/bus/waiting for something, you would either read the newspaper or book, socialise or actually do nothing. Really, it isn't hard to imagine that. Internet is still a recent phenomenon in the grand scheme of things.

>> No.11224199

>>11224021
Anyone born before 1990 knows what life was like before the internet you pathetic minibrain zoomer

>> No.11224218

>>11224183
I was born in 87 and have had internet since I was fifteen and reading this shit is hilarious. It's like you zoomers are telling each other fairy tales.

>> No.11224223

>>11224199
The internet was very popular at the turn of the century you stupid fuck. We played flash games in the early 2000s.

Dumb fuck wannabe boomer.

>> No.11224230

>>11224183
Don't forget magazines. Man, I long for the days when the new EGM hit the newsstand. Sushi X motherfuckers.

>> No.11224251

i remember when I was in 4th grade in Kentucky i had a school homework assignment on Kentucky studies and one of the questions was when KFC was founded. It was 1993 so there was no internet and no way to find that useless information in 2 seconds on my phone like I could now. So my mom made me call a KFC and ask probably the fry cook when they were founded. They didn't know and hung up on me. Shit was great with no internet.

>> No.11224261

>>11224021
Born in 63 been on 4chan since 2006 came here from aintitcool . Life is so easy now due to internet. I was lucky in that I was forced to learn social skills to survive. Most people here do not do well because they have not addressed their introversion. I read multiple newspapers and had encyclopedia /magazine subscriptions as young married man. You went out shot pool or played pinball etc..

>> No.11224262

>>11224218
I'm talking about life before the 90's, faggot. That's what life was like in the 60's/70's based on what my parents told me. You are only 31 anyway, what the fuck would you know more than a 25 years old

>> No.11224267

>>11224223
A lot of people didn't have computers, and the internet wasn't as useful or as accessible as it is today. Life was the same as it was in the 90s for most people until smartphones came around.

>> No.11224278

Born 1977 life was good before the fucking internet.

>> No.11224282

>>11224262
>what the fuck would you know more than a 25 years old
Six more years of experience.

>> No.11224336

81 here. Was fucking awesome during dial-up days. Speed sucked, but no jewgle or kikebook. Just shit geocities home pages. You called ur friend on the phone beforehand to set up a modem game of Command & Conquer. MUDs on BBS. Good times. I didn't even own a cell phone until Sophomore year in college. You could literally dissapear for days at a time without faggoty about what happened to you, because it was normal. Imagine being able to be left alone if you wanted without any flack from friends n family, and regularly having conversations with humans that weren't influenced by hive thought.

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>>11224278
Yeah, I member my friends spending an hour on the phone on Friday night trying to make plans and having to call everybody. Call waiting was the height of communication technology.

>> No.11224359

>>11224251
bless your mum's heart kek

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>>11224021

1974

Teen years of media before the mainstream internet was spent

> Going to movies and renting movies was pretty big thing

> MTV - a lot of youth wasted on this shit

> Nintendo/Playstation/Sega

> Talking about why we weren't getting pussy

> USA Today sports pages, stats section

> Various magazines. Rolling Stone, GQ, Wired (mid-90s),

> Listened to music a lot more back then

> I used to read books back then

> Probably a surprise to most zoomers but a few of us did shitposting just like this on internet Usenet groups back in late 1980s early 1990s

>> No.11224599

>>11224021
I was born in '95 and didn't have the internet or cable television until like '07. I feel like a time capsule.

>> No.11224667

>>11224021
1973
We went out drinking. A lot.
Having a fake ID was crucial, although they were pretty cheap then, because low tech

>> No.11224690

>>11224336
I used to play Doom with my friend over dial-up. It was totally cool.

>> No.11224750

86 here

one time in school my teacher told something wrong in geography which was not mentioned in the book. i knew it was wrong and contradicted but couldnt hold the argument because no proof. cant search as no internet. 2 months later, the same thing was printed in paper. got it in school next day, revived the conversation and booooommmm.. paper on table, the whole class was awed. felt like gangsta that time

>> No.11224760

>>11224021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

>> No.11224796

>>11224021
my parents said that they use to go to disco's for fun. like the same way we play vidya and shitpost, they would just go out and do shit.

>> No.11224799

>Thinking/meditating
>Taking notes on paper with a pen or pencil

>> No.11224824

>socializing is easy
t. h/c boomer

>> No.11224841

>>11224021
i remember when no-one even had mobile phones.
really, it was mobiles which was the game changer. that was when humanity began to be connected.
before that, your world was basically limited to the people who were in the same room as you. seems weird thinking abt that even now.

>> No.11224861

>>11224760
as an 18yo watching this i feel... strange. were all people that friendly back then? imagine just going up to a stranger and doing that now...

>> No.11224864

the same you just couldn't fap using your phone

>> No.11224872

>>11224861
it's a viral video for a reason.
it reminds people of how much we are frogs in a slowly boiling pot.
we aren't supposed to live like this.

>> No.11224874

>>11224841
yeah like anon said above, you used to be able to disappear and people wouldn't freak out.

cell phones and the web 2.0 really did change everything. I was in college when faceberg came out and t hey rolled out my school right after the Iveys. It was the most amazing thing at that time, but if I'd had known what it would morph into I never would have been a part of it.

>> No.11224920

>>11224874
yeah, people laugh at myspace, but it was arguably the thing that most radically changed society with interent technology. FB came along and just amped that up x1,000,000.

>>11224861
>>11224872
i remember when i used to go to college on the bus here in the UK in the 90s, and everyone would be talking to each other and just having a great time. now i literally never see anyone talking to anyone else on public transport who's over the age of 16. sad.

>> No.11224973

>>11224861

turns out the boomers went back and did it again in 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE&feature=youtu.be

>> No.11224979

The internet as you guys know it didn't really exist until the late 90s. Google was the real turning point that made things like they are today.

Life was much simpler before we had the internet. There was no need to question things. You just followed the path laid out for you. Honestly we were a bunch of NPCs. The internet to us was like fire to the first man.

Also you will never know the pain of watching your porn slowly load on the screen while your modem screeched the entire time.

TLDR: Life was simpler, but not really better. Oh and we learned to do math in our heads.

>> No.11225009

Why was thom yorke trying to be kurt cobain ?

>> No.11225067

>>11224979
The turning point to the modern internet was YouTube

>> No.11225100

>>11224979
the early 2000s were pure kino
Too bad the good shit ended around 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgJyYyDigIU

late 90s had the best parties though, can't really complain

>> No.11225109

heres some nostalgia for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>> No.11225110

>>11224223
most people didn't use the internet when it first came out and really for about a decade afterwards. You would know that if you weren't a fucktard zoomer. Zoomers get off my board.

>> No.11225116

>>11225100
Social Media was the death of all things good, so it's really Tom's fault. It just took awhile to fully kick in.

>> No.11225132

>>11224223
Newgrounds.com

>> No.11225144

i'm grateful to have known the world b4 the internet. not that i'd go back, but i think i can appreciate things more.

>>11225067
this kinda. although i'd probably say twitter is more important. i remember first hearing abt twitter and thinking" wtf, literally no-one is going to use that". they called it micro-blogging back then. why the fuck would anyone limit themselves to 140 characters.

and yet here we are.
also, this is why i'm so bullish on crypto. things that people write off, so long as they have genuine utility, always get adopted.
LINK 100 eoy.

>> No.11225146

>>11225132
surely you mean stickdeath and joecartoon

>> No.11225156

>>11225116
>really Tom's fault
nah it was the normie wave back in '11
The dilution made everything bland

>> No.11225161

>>11225109
Here's some nostalgia for you

https://youtu.be/YfUyR1wlcus

>The internet connects you with literally 100s of services.
>You can games against people around the country.
>The internet combines the speed of your computer with the connectivity of your telephone.

>> No.11225168

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elj2m1x-oEk

>> No.11225169

>>11225110
>most people didn't use the internet when it first came out and really for about a decade afterwards. You would know that if you weren't a fucktard zoomer. Zoomers get off my board.
the internet back then just felt like a disparate group of stand alone websites that looked completely different to one another cos you had to build it yourself.
i liked that kind of anarchy to it. it was liek the cyber wild west.

>> No.11225175

>>11225146
Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Banana phone!

>> No.11225178

>>11225116
This

Things were great until social media came along. Yes, boomers used email and the internet for looking things up, or even high tech like printing out Mapquest directions, but the internet was largely a place for social outliers. As a result, there was no normalfag invasion like there is now. There were no ME ME ME ME ME /pol/ circlejerk dick waving contents, and if there were, they were for the lulz, or done by ridiculous apolitical autists like Chris-chan.

Now, in the post-social media world, everything is about the individual. The internet used to be a place for lulz and anonymity. Now it is all about the self and the ME ME ME ME I'M RIGHT, LOOK AT ME! BELIEVE MY BELIEFS! Social media was the death of the golden era and anyone who uses it is a normalfag and a shame to all things good and worthwhile.

>> No.11225187

>>11225144
Checked and check em

>> No.11225203

Ok listen up zoomers

People mostly watched TV. Magazine subscriptions were a thing "oh buy the next issue of blah is out tomorrow!". You would talk to your friends on the phone all the time. Encyclopedia was the information motherload. You would see people sitting in the library reading a fucking Encyclopedia. Blockbuster video was a rock solid business franchise and you had to go to the photo store to get any pictures you had taken with a camera developed.

>> No.11225205

>>11225169
Geocities to the moon!

>> No.11225212

>>11225169
geocities kino my friend

>> No.11225897

>>11224082
1982 here. We are the last generation to grow up without computers in our face since we were born.

>> No.11225913

>>11224199
Lol. You were like 7 and everyone was using the internet for something by then. DEFINITELY by 10.

>> No.11225968

>>11224874
Disappearing was literally the best. If you did that for 2 days now, someone would call the police.

>> No.11226012

I am 31 and did not get on the internet, let alone interact with a computer until I was 14 (no internet until I was 17). First cellphone when I was 16. Before that I was hanging out with friends every single day, mom mad at me for not being home on time. Watching TV with parents every night, reading books before going to sleep. Taking my bike to go to other neighborhoods, cause trouble. Go fish in the park behind our house, go swim in lake a bit further. Go to teen social center to play pingpong or billiards. quite fun.

>> No.11226032

I'd say the point when it all went down the shitter is when mobile phones became available for the masses.

>> No.11226043

At least that is the point where western women turned into complete whores.

>> No.11226049

>>11224021
You have to understand that before Napster, only creeps and cat ladies used the internet.

I can tell you that the internet murdered every old wives tale. Now everybody fact checks every fucking thing.

You used to be able to say shit like "blind people have sonar hearing" or "midgets have sonar hearing" and people would believe you. Now if you say "deaf people have sonar hearing" they call you an idiot and pull up a wikipedia article about what a faggot you are.

>> No.11226060

I'm 95, and since burn I had a PC because my dad study computer science. Internet wasn't a thing only he could use it for his work.

As a kid you didn't need the internet when you had a floppy disk with Doom or

Here, interesting to see how people are not walking with their faces down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

>> No.11226822

>>11224021

1966 here.

> Listen to records a LOT, from the time I was 8yo. KISS was huge. Aerosmith, Bowie, shit like that.

> Ride our bikes in the woods, play capture the flag, kickball etc. Neighborhood kids all play together.

> jerked off using your imagination, thinking of girls you liked or saw in movies or on TV. Once in a while you'd find a "dirty magazine" and it was off to the races.

> Discovered punk rock & hardcore when I was 15. Went to hardcore shows and "slam danced" every weekend. Met girls.

> In my 20s I got into drugs. Did a lot of partying and fucked a lot of girls. Met them at club gigs, played in a band. got their number, or just went home with them on the spot. The 80s were very promiscuous, before AIDS hit especially.

> Payphones. Newspapers, magazines, sketching, practicing music, rent videos, bookstores, libraries.

> You found out about interesting stuff by talking to like minded friends. Looked around for books on these topics to learn more.

> use a map. Ask for directions at a gas station if you get lost.

> discovered the internet in 1997.

> got laid off of Friendster

>> No.11226869

>>11225897
Nope, there are people like that even today fags. Talking about first world countries instead I was born in '91 and remember life without internet, and without cellphones(smartphones). Everything was slower, TV was my 4chan, where spending all my free time when not outside.

>> No.11226895

boomer here, born in 85
I think we got interwebs in the late 90s though I had my first amiga500 in grade school. we would always roam around with a pack of like 20 neighbourhood kids, get into water/snowball fights, ride bikes and skateboards. as a young autist I would also go to the library and just read all the teen novellas they had there. go to friends houses to play Doom and Monkey Island or watch the latest MacGyver episode. The 90s were awesome we also had virtually no shitskins where I grew up.
I resisted FB and smartphones until 2012, then I had to cave in and get both. the internet has only gone downhill it used to be a place where we traded warez on ftp servers and other geek shit. now its become corporate web, google search results are full with shitty blogs and all the websites look/feel the same. the internet and life in general have really gone downhill over the last decade or so. people are all autistic (the bad way) now, nobody talks to each other, suddenly theres niggers everywhere when it used to be white, etc etc. Personally I blame the jews.

>> No.11226910

>>11224861
>>11224872
>>11224920
You niggers are as sentimental as you are dumb
They are talking to people so readily because they have a camera, and not everyone walked around with a camera back then especially not for filming mundane shit

>> No.11226914

>>11226895
oh also up until the early 2000s video game were fantastic, now its all dumbed down garbage. do you faggots even Baldurs Gate 2, Planescape, Monkey Island, Doom. we had the best games now its all political garbage with black nazis and crippled women in wheelchairs and retarded shit like that. also I havent mentioned the drugs, back in the early 2000s we had awesomely retarded techno parties with high quality mdma, lsd, all the shit you could ask for. girls werent buried in their smartphones all day so they would actually pay you attention and sometimes play with your peepee. it wasp retty good times over all

>> No.11226981

1981 here....

First girl i fucked was a girl I met in an AOL chat room.

Mom took me to wood field mall in Schaumburg Illinois in 1996. Met the chick.... we went to a nearby forest and I fucked her kn the dirt ground on some little trail

>> No.11226991

1981 was probably the best year to be born.... you had a wholesome analog childhood

But still super young enough to get into all the new shit internet crap.

So I got the best of both worlds.

Although without a doubt analog was WAY better than it is now.

>> No.11227064

I am interested in the point of view of people born connected, I have a younger brother, but he isn't that influenced by the web and is on the chad spectrum.
Me and anyone like me are sort of lucky to have fully experienced the transition, know what was before and at the same time been able to assimilate the internet as part of our lifes.
I've recently had a chance to talk to two kids sub-12yo, both very smart and total aspies, both can clearly not stop shifting attention continuously, they reminded me of myself, but have so much more info at their hands at any hour and unprepared parents to take care of dangerous sources. The're basically growing up on their own in regards to internet and it's culture because their normie parents can't catch up, and this will shape their minds for their whole life. Is funny because one is a fortnite fanboy, the other a nintendo switch one, I might call them faggots on here in a few years.

Feels strange remembering that I was alive in a period where nobody in my family and social circle used the internet and computers were not common.

>>11226895
The difference between having a bunch of nerds doing things for nerds and having that nerd thing become a global thing that must cater to the lowest common denominator. The low quality content is higher in %.

>> No.11227122

>>11227064
we have to take care of the zoomers on here

>> No.11227242

'76 born here, Yurop.

Getting porn was extremely hard, they werent selling for under 18's. Getting a hold of a magazine was a huge success, you fapped for the same pictures for years. VHS wasnt widespread as it was a commie country with ban on import electronics, computers. Some politicans had VHS players and secret porn stashes smuggled. The first porn movie Ive seen at age 11 happened to be Cicciolina and her girlfriend with the horse, and Cicciolina shitting on a man"s chest. I guess that was really helping me on my way to get into even more fucked things.

In 1990 we got our first VHS. Got myself that Cicciolina tape from my buddy in exchnge my star wars magazine collection.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall you started getting your PC content from magazines, floppies and demo cds. In 95 my ex stepfather dialed into the internet and showed me a website, I was awed.

As no internet, no real tv channels were available back then (commie and post era) I was reading lots of books, any books.
Spent my time outside with my gang, skateboarding, biking around, setting thigns on fire, smoking, drinking. I started drinking at 14, by the age of 18 I would be blackout drunk at least twice a week. Those theys they served us alcohol anywhere, regardless the age limit of 18 was in effect. Lost many of the gang to drugs later, many died by now, including my cousing. We started with alcohol, sniffing glue and paint thinner. I stopped at weed, speed and extasy, some didnt.
>>cont

>> No.11227272

>>11227242
>>cont.
It was 97 when I was able to afford my first cellphone. I was the first amongst my friends who had one, I had a well paying job. Minutes cost were crazy high, you even paid if someone called you.

Thats when we stopped relying finding your friends only when they were home with around landline phones. Before that, you would get on your bike and ride around your favorite bars to find your buddies if you didnt find them home.

Early 2000 you would get fresh porn, game and other sofware by meeting your friends, taking your harddrives with you and copying for hours. Some went to Unis where they had access to internet and all the goods. Some made good bucks by selling cracked games on cds. Having a cd writer was a big thing. In 2001 i participated my first lan, playing quake3, Mohaa and unreal tournament.

In 2000 I got my first 56K dialup. Spent nighst downloading porn and warez as it was the cheap way to do it. After 9pm you had a flat rate of 5 dollars until 6am. A new world has opened.

2004 I finally had access to ADSL. 384 kbs/56 kbs. Played online multiplayer for the first time - Call of Duty one.
Spent the whole summer, playing from 8 to midnight. Found /b/ in 2008 and I am still around.

First thing I do when I get out of bed, i turn on my pc and get online.
If my internet connection stops, I dont know what to do. Literally have no idea what to do.
INterestingly, I dont give a fuck about messing with my smarthphone 24/7, instagram, snapchat etc, I only use it tp call people and take pictures.

Havent seen my best friend for a year, he is the last one I have.

And we didnt know what social justice was.

>> No.11227309

Born in '92. I still remember the days where some guy with a scooter would bring me discs with pirated video games to my door. Those were the days.

>> No.11227367

Born 1980. Life was really idyllic and peaceful before the internet and 9/11. You have NO idea how much those 2 things changed life in the 21st c.

>> No.11227454

>>11226869
>without cellphones (smartphones)

>> No.11227487

I come on this website daily and scan through hundreds of posts. My mind is exposed to so many opinions and worldviews. It feels schizophrenic.

I hung out with some friends today. They're fluent in 4chan humour & post-irony. Everything is a dumb meme. Nothing felt genuine or authentic.

I feel like the internet brings a type of self-awareness that we weren't ready for. Everything is parodied & turned into a meme.

I get that people have been have existential/ identity crises forever, but the internet has amplified the intensity & frequency of these crises.

And social media is awful. It's structured so that you're constantly exposed to richer, more talented, more beautiful people. Using it fuels a sense of inadequacy, but choosing not to be active hampers your social opportunities.

>> No.11227547

>>11227487
It's funny how the internet is going to bring about a cyberpunk revolution more than anything

>> No.11227562

1982 here.

Life before the internet was more innocent, wondrous, and people talked to each other more and spent time with each other in person. The teens spent their free time playing sports, skateboarding, partying, talking on the phone with each other (your guy friends and female friends) for hours. You ordered things from catalogs, like music CDs, movies, electronics, or just shopped around until you found what you were looking for.

I say wondrous because we didn't know how much we didn't know, and if you didn't know something, you had to go search the world for the answer. Usually the first step was calling up a family member. Your grandparents were actually wise elders. Each library only contained it's own small subset of all human knowledge.

Pre-internet was like being in a StarCraft map with black fog around you and you didn't know the size of the map. Post-internet is like the map being cleared of all fog.

>> No.11227566

>>11224021
When I was 16-17 we got our first PC with a 66mhz 486dx2 that had a 14.4 modem. I had to upgrade my ram 4mb to play doom 2. People would go outside and walk around the neighborhood for fun. Walk 30minutes to get to your friends house so you could walk around their neighborhood. I had a fucking pager, do you young fags even know what that is?

>> No.11227652

>>11227272
Nice posts. Thanks.

>> No.11227702

>>11226895
This is a copypasta is it not? I just had a deja vu while reading the second half of it.

>> No.11227706

>>11227487
>4chan humour & post-irony
there was a time pre 2008 before the boxxy implosion when you could talk to someone and recognize whether they were a 4chinner or not.
now everyone and their gradma has become a meme of a meme

>> No.11227708

>>11227242
>>11227272
good boomer

>> No.11227746

>>11227562
Good metaphor

It's also almost impossible for a kid to get bored

Imagine heading outside now with no electronic device

>> No.11227814

>>11224082

>1996
>commodore 64

wut

>> No.11227819

>>11227367
>Life was really idyllic and peaceful before the internet and 9/11
yeah, i was early 20's when 9/11 happened, not american but english.
it definitely changed things, but hard to say how. daily news reports became important to people in a way they hadnt b4, which gave print and tv media more power over people's lives i think.
the internet has turned us into information gods, which is something we as mortals arent able to handle. we're definitely becoming less happy.

>> No.11227884

>>11224021
Like what the fuck, I grew up in the 90s and remember times without the internet, not everyone had it or even a computer. Also the internet was not as useful as it is now, I can remember the internet being only useful to play neopets and shitting around in chatrooms trying to piss random people off

>> No.11227945

>be me driving in car with five year old nephew
>have radio playing
>asks me to play some shit song
>tell him that song isn't playing on the radio yet
>have to explain to him why he can't have the song he just demands because we are listening to the radio and not playing it through YouTube or Spotify.
>really not sure if he believed me and just thought I didn't want to play his song
Remember having to wait to watch your favourite cartoon and looking in the tv guide what was on. simple times

>> No.11227963

>>11224021

Got Interweb in 2002 and got msn messenger, computer was in the living room and my friends would send pics of dicks randomly to embarrass me in front of parents. God my dad kicked the living shit out of me one day cause a big ol black cock flashed up in the chatbox

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CEI might be going up today. News dropped.

>> No.11228013

>>11224861
when you act lively and friendly people still tend to return those vibes today it's really doesnt seem all that different

>> No.11228068

The internet is gay.

>> No.11228082

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZuz5Dwtw8

>> No.11228187

1974.

it was better free, safe, mainly whites in England. I could go out at 5 by myself or with mates it was really safe.

the only downer was, total threat of nuclear war from about 1979 to 83. Shit was intense.

>> No.11228190

>>11225116
>>11225178
Social media may have killed a lot of relationships but it also kicked off a lot of other relationships. Social media isn't the problem, people are. We're just becoming dopamine-addicted junkies looking for a fix every 10 seconds and that does horrible things to one's character.

>> No.11228269

>>11227454
What? Cellphones were a thing when the word smartphone didn't exist among normies. I get they are the same thing now.

>> No.11228644

>>11224367
dude, that pic is fucked. I thought for sure that was a dick in her glass.

>> No.11228658

>>11224367
Were pussies always hairy back then?

>> No.11228750

>>11225897
82 as well, i am happy I got to experience pre-internet life.

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11228805

Old fag here.. 1966
Anyone that REALLY wants to know what it was like to grow up in the 1970s and be a teenager in the 1980s. Watch these.
It's almost exactly how it was.

Watch these movies.. Torrents around I'm sure. Some are on Youtube. Watch them in this order.

This is what it was like growing up in the 70's and being a teenager/young adult in the 80's
Hell you could get into any bar in the 80s with a $5 fake id. Most never even cared unless you looked 12 or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_%26_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_News_Bears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbia_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_girl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Times_at_Ridgemont_High
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakfast_Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_Safari_(film)

90s were great until about 92 then a sharp decline until 98 and then the smoking ban shut down most of the clubs and bars and the internet took up the slack.

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>>11224021
>Born 1990 and never used the internet
>20+ yo
Did you mean 30+ because people born after 1990 are 28

>> No.11228826

82 here, always loved video games ever since my step brother brought over nes with ice hockey and uncles had commodore 64 basically since I was born, so I always had an interest in things that would eventually become very much internet related

The first time I experienced the internet was in a library in grade 6-7, it was slow as hell, took God knows how long for my eight grade attention span, to load anything

By the time grade 8 came around, using internet constantly, and all through high-school, no one else really used it at all, last year of highschool, extremely annoying normy nerd started talking about icq one day.

As for social media, pretty sure sites like hotornot and ratemyface / ratemybody were around before myspace

As many have said most people did not really start using the internet until sites like YouTube, Facebook and smart phones became a thing, so not really that long ago

>> No.11228827

80s was way better. Lived through the 70, 80 and 90s
Best decade to grow up in. Best decade to be a teenager in and best decade to be an adult in.
By 1991 the tears started to show, then all of a sudden the radio became Back Street Boys and Spice Girls 24/7. 24 hour music on MTV stopped with the retarded reality show where a bunch of strangers lived together. Total Shit.
AIDS mostly killed the bar/disco/club scene by 92. The smoking bans closed pubs that had been open 600 years and made it through War, reformation and plagues. Didn't make it through the nanny state and the mothers of SJWs.
90 by the end sucked ass badly.
If I could go back to 1987 and just live there for 1000 years I would be in heaven.
A great 3-10 new songs on the radio each weeks. Streets in Berlin with 200 clubs in a row. Everyone was skinny. It was fucking glorious.

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>>11224367
>Wired
This was before they became a socialist-left rag run by Conde Nast. Same for MTV and The Onion. All these companies got acquired by SJWs. I no longer visit them.

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>>11224021
>What the FUCK was life like before the internet?

SEGA and SANIC instead of PC / 4chan ;) internet started becoming popular with home pc's mid 90's


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ymm9od0Pw

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>>11224021
my parents would hop on motor bikes with their high school friends and bike from michigan up through maine sometimes hop into canada. back then you only needed a birth certificate to visit canada.
also listen to art bell on the radio and of course rock and roll

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>>11227272
that last line hits me so hard
those were the days.

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1984, got 56k dial-up in 2000 in Europe.

Used to work out for 1 hour every day, stopped immediately the day I got on the net.

Napster chat and mp3 download every waking moment that the shared phone line wasn't used by dad. An incoming call would cut off my connection.

$200 phone bills per month. Used mp3 gains to rationalize it as money I would've spent on CDs anyway.

15 minutes per mp3 was fast. An ISO image could take days.

Used direct mp3 downloads from unfriendly chat users to obtain their IP address and scan them for trojans. Hacker t00lz were big then. Users who disabled sharing were unfortunately immune.

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>>11225897
>>11228750
What are you talking about. 1983 and my first computer was with 5 (Philips Odyssey2). Played on a Commedore 64 at my neighbor. I got a gameboy with 7 and my first real PC 486 with 8. I crashed the PC every week with deleting files too look what files the PC needed to start. And with 9 I loved more to play on PC then go outside. With 11 I made my own electronic circuits with a LED (ofc with a "electronic kids product". And with 14 (1997) I was one of the first in my school who got a mobile phone (but more because my mother was so nervous and wanted to contact me every day in school if I am alive kek). I think I am more digital native then most young people born in 2000.

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>>11229378
Update: The mobile phone had real batteries. No joke. Do you guess which one it was?