What was life like before smartphones

nope

i used to get on a bus and travel 10 stops to knock on my friends door only to be told he wasnt in, i would then go looking for them on the parks around the area and usually end up finding them within 10 - 15 mins

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I was so pumped when I talked to my crush on AIM and she actually messaged back and had a conversation with me

Less stress. Less people taking up all your time. No social media bullshit. If you was out of the house, you were free and on your own.

Have you ever seen a phonebook user?

I'm 40. When I was in high school everybody wanted a beeper, pager, flip phone. It's all relative.

And people often walked by each others houses. When I was a kid all moms in the street would also always visit each other to drink tea around noon. While you walked past the houses of the people you knew to see if they wanted to play.

i met a pen pal called nicole from spain on the nme chat room. i was 16 at the time sooo that would have been 1998

>reddit spacing
go back

You had to talk and socialize
Body language and know sarcasm
You had to ask for directions from strangers
The only phone was your home phone
When you met a friend and they didn't show, you just assumed they got caught up in something; no harm no foul

Everything was indescribably better.

>things are easier now?
>thats a BAD thing!
>i need to be recognized for being able to remember phone numbers in my head and using a paper notebook!

I used to jack off with my hand. now I message some ugly old scank to do it for $200

Yes

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based as fuck buckets

no

The internet used to come through the phone, it made a horrible sound like robots screaming

laptops were a bigger deal, and facebook. In the early days you had competing social networks in addition to facebook, there was livejournal, myspace, xanga, probably some others too. You chatted with your friends on AOL instant messenger all hours of the night.

Things aren't easier necessarily. The time you lost is more than the time you gained.

I was the last generation to graduate high school before smart phones took over (2010), there was a lot less distractions at school and it was easier to learn. I read lots of books in downtime because there wasn’t anything else. Kids now watch tik toks or YouTube and listen to music all day during lectures. I’m sure I would have done the same thing in their shoes, but it is a huge difference in their schooling
They also are given iPads where they have an online classroom with group chats and postings from the teacher. We still had to lug around textbooks and if you didn’t write stuff down in class, you were just fucked. Everything got handed in on paper. That online connectivity would have been awesome

You know what the thing is. Smartphones are okay. It's social media that fcked up everything.

real simple, it was easier - your life was more focused around your community not some random shit online

keep in mind though, none of it would've come as far (for better or worse - obviously worse) if it weren't for the tech constantly progressing

dark times are ahead ... people will yearn yet again for the current, until they yearn no more

also fuck you retard i would use whatever spacing i deem fit for this box which i never adjust in size for replying - stupid nigger fagget

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It was fucking great desu.

It was actually awesome. You spoke to people verbally, if you wanted to make plans, pick up the phone and give them a call. If you were bored you went and did something meaningful, rather than bury your head in a smart device. School, you actually had to study and know the material.

>horrible
You mean exciting.

youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

My friends through pebbles at my window to wake me up/hang out

You could turn the sound off. Nobody read the manuals back then either.

yah facebook and people using their actual identities screwed things up massively.

>What was life like before smartphones.
The world didn't suck (as much)

The smartphone combines every terminology needs in the past 30 years. You can use it bed or on the toilet. The combination with a smart watch. The smartphone is the greatest invention since the combustion engine. I'm keeping track of war, social media, watching movies, listening to music and podcasts, porn on the fly, downloading stuff, and it's a regular phone and text.

Friends were real.

if you see it that way, you didn't deserve to live then, nor today

Beautiful. You just phoned people. If they didn't answer you assumed they were busy and called back in a few hours or the next day. If you both had computers you could maybe chat on ICQ if you were both online. Everybody is so fucking clingy now because of smart phones. It's disgusting.

pepole where much more reliable:
>"let's hang out next monday 4pm""okay"
>monday 4pm actually happens without last minute texting

Nextel walkie-talkie cellphones were peak kino. Yelling “NIGGER” and having it blast through a friends speaker while they were waiting in a crowded line for food was fucking hilarious.

you lived the same life as me. wonder if you're one of my old mates

I called my friends on pic related. Then we met for playing basketball, riding bikes, hiking, doing stupid shit, etc.

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>Can any 30+ old fags explain what life was like before the smartphone takeover
Much less convenient.
The mobile phone was a revolution.
The smartphone was an improvement, but not as impressive.

Checked and kek’d

just go watch “saved by the bell”

I was a different kind of happy, I had no responsibilities and lots of friends and I could play World of Warcraft and browse Any Forums all day. Now I have a career, money (I was dirt poor growing up), a wife, a house, and kids which I am happy with, but I still feel nostalgic for the happiness I had back then once in a while

>What was school/college like, how did people interact, how did people make plans,etc.
Feature phones/texting/bluetooth was all the go. Bebo (like myspace) a bit later on. Still not good, but at least things felt more 'localised'.
Ever since classmates started owning/bringing in camera phones is when I started having serious contentions with people. Everything was relatively peaceful and happy up until the end of primary school (mid 2000s), I'd put a good bit of that down to the lack of communications tech.

pretty comfy

definitely yes

It was pretty fucking cool, yet I wouldn't trade this cantonese basket weaving forum for ANYTHING in the old world. Listen, the threat was there from the beginning. The world was pozzed as fuck either way. Smartphones and social media are EVIL tho, always keep that in mind.

I had a gameboy to play games instead, first an OG gameboy, then color then advanced. Pokemon red/blue was HUGE at the yard, so was cardgames. The main difference would be social media and instant messaging, we would only talk to other kids in school, or by telephone, but that would be only to very close friends and in specific circumstances, for short calls.
Multiplayer gaming was only possible in person at first, playing Nintendo 64 with 4 people at most, or megadrive with 2 people, etc.
It were simpler times, it seems to me friendships were closer, since you could only hang out and game in person, lots of sleep overs and hanging out at peoples house in the afternoon, there was usually one home that everyone would gather, but that was flexible.
By the time cellphones were a thing I was on late teens, same with social media.
There was less globohomo and sjw too, gay gets would get beat up, no one liked black kids etc.

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Fashion trends would start in big cities and take years to reach small towns. Now it's instant.

newfag

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Better.

Honestly, no. If things didn't happen the way they did, I'd still be a normie NPC.

>365162043
It wwas great, and if we can manuever this conflict with Russia correctly one day our great great grandchildren will live in a utopia without them again.

Let the nukes fly.

exactly the same as it is now except people stared at their phones slightly less and you had to wait until you got home to get on social media

On Monday you called your friend and asked if he wanted to meet on Thursday. He said yes. You decide to meet by the big tree at 14.00.

You did not speak to him again until you met him. It was nice.

if i had a time machine i would go back to buckets days and relive them. they were the best time of my life.

Just leave your phone at home for a week.

you're an old nigger

The blonde chad boy brought a mobile phone to work and was the center of attention in one episode.

it was harder to find things, so we spent more time looking for less things

m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBvMUyFvkAQ

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the Bush/Cheney era.

i don´t know about him, but i was happier that time also. i am 36 years old.
Today the world is too globohomo.
at that time we could make jokes without being afraid of anything.
You knew people and people knew you, the bad people often got fucked by good people because they didnt shit to happen.
People was free to carry knifes, guns and personal weapon because, you alone could encouter danger.
The girls was so much docile and kind, we could be proud of protecting them and they would be proud of choosing a strong good man.
these times are not for the retarded since the retarded should and could be ended by it´s own stupidity, example i was free to play with gunpowder and also have an revolver that used gunpowder and if was misuse that it was my own problem for being dumb. People at that time had good common sense.
My father gifted me a hunting knife when i was 12 and taken me to cabaret at 14.
the food was better and didnt make people sick or fat.

i hate the world today.

Less retards on the internet. This is the biggest issue with phones.

You would tell your parents where you would be and make sure they had the number so that they could call there if they needed to contact you.
Sometimes you'd call somewhere looking for someone and they'd tell you
>he was here, but he left an hour ago for this other place
and you would call that other place and so on, until you found them.
Sometimes you wouldn't want to be found, and you wouldn't. Parents would wait up and ask where you were all night.
You would agree to meet with friends at a given place and time beforehand. Sometimes a day before. And if you went there and they didn't show up, you wouldn't be able to talk to them until you got home or the next day at school.

took you a while to come up with that, ay?

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When we had landlines only, as a kid(5-12yo), I would not call me friends, I would get dressed, walk outside, and knock on their door to ask them to play/hang out.
But you tell me.. but pretty much yes, everything was better before, and most things are shit now.

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you couldn't find info as easily but when you did find it it was generally of a higher quality. The sweet spot was in the early internet days before social media and smartphones, the Matrix was correct the late 1990's were the absolute pinnacle of human society, in the west at least.
In general before ubiquitous computing everything still got done, albeit at a slower pace and with more potential for human error but obviously less potential for computer error. Remember that all the stuff that computing automated was existing human processes and interactions. It's really kind of hard to explain, things were better in a lot of ways, but a lot of the same frustrations still existed. And getting lost was a real thing, that's one you have probably never experienced.

I still remember my old ICQ number

my grandpa had one of those and I know how to operate them

Kiss my ass and rope faggot.

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It was much better. Niggers weren’t on the internet. People got along.
t. 42

I still remember some of my old friends's phone numbers. I don't remember the phone number of my gf.

Yeah, the logistics of things were seemingly more complex and involved. Without that complexity our brains atrophy.

Absolutely. I'm 35 and we were much happier then. Older fags have confirmed this is not an illusion. Things were much better 20 years ago, and better still 40 years ago. Even if you didn't have a lot of money, there was much less moral misery.
Humanity is degenerating at an astounding rate.

Alright zoomie tard, I will humor you.
>what life was like before the smartphone takeover. What was school/college like, how did people interact
Normal, talk face to face. 10x less autism.
>how did people make plans
Write it down briefly on a piece of paper or in a notebook or in a planner.

Smartphones are so overrated as a social game changer. People had cellphones before smartphones and were sending SMS instead of IMs. Virtually all that has changed is that people browse the net on the bus and on the train.

I still don't use a smart phone so I can't really tell the difference. What do zoomers think smart phones have changed in society?

God, those were the days. How I miss them so...

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I still have ICQ installed for whatever reason.

I feel sad for the Dutch people who don't know how to cook proper Dutch food these days.

I am in my mid-40s. We had various hang outs where there were always people and beepers with a code system and used pay phones when needed. It was fucking awesome. Computers were for nerds and it was easy to get laid because my peer group had a ton of chicks always hanging around.

>to get on social media
There was no social media, fcking mong.

I still remember getting clingy with my girlfriend and sending her SMS non stop. I didn't know what the fuck was wrong with me but I realized something was up. I forced myself to get over it.
Little did I know I was dodging a bullet.

Used a home phone and made plans in notepads.

Some people actually carried small organisers that were like thick books.

I'm 30 now but I lived on a street where pretty much every house had kids and we were all friends
during the day time on the weekends we would literally just walk into each others houses and knock on the bedroom door and most parents didn't give a fuck because we were just dumb kids and didn't have any manners

>wife, a house, and kids which I am happy with
bullshit