Pre-iPhone planet

What was it like to live in a world as an adult or teenager without smartphones? How much of an impact do you think they've had on people's behavior in the past 15 years?

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its just the current fad, like how the 90's had its own gay globohomo shit

awesome.
people werent brainwashed nearly as much.
social media hastened the decline by a lot.

The real world was all there was. The real world was more real. The people you knew in the real world were more important because they were the only people you could talk to.

The only extra added bonus an Iphone has given me is the ability to watch things or find answers to questions I have in the blink of an eye. Otherwise things are mostly the same. Childen born from 2010 onwards will be more affected by modern technology than those beforehand. I'm sure you've been to a supermarket and seen a child sat in a shopping trolley, using an ipad or their parents phone to watch non-stop churned out childrens garbage that generates millions of dollars a day. The newest young generations will always be more brainwashed than the last, as technology is the bread and butter of their world.

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Lmao. The only difference is that the brainwashing came from limbaugh and fox on the right, and jon liebowitz and cnn on the left.

you used to meet people and talk to them.
good times.

Everyone I knew had regular cell phones and everyone was obsessed with television. It was much less degenerate

The internet was a mistake. Graphical user interfaces were a mistake. Making computers accessible to retards has terrible consequences we are only beginning to feel.
>t. a zoomer software developer who probably makes more money than you do

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echo chambers.
i remember spending my days by stealing some liquor then wandering the parks of brussels and exchanging alcohol for weed, and having interesting discussions in the process.

all walks of life had something interesting to say.

nowadays, people have their noses in their smartphones and all say exactly the same shit.

you amerifags were always obedient conformists.
but in europe social media really changed how people are thinking.
its the echo chambers. its the politically correct orthodoxy. its the exposure of young individuals to global "culture"

>What was it like to live in a world as an adult or teenager without smartphones?
you had to sit in a computer chair to jack off, it was uncomfortable

people had smartphones.
they had keyboards.
Research in Motion was a Canadian company that sold the blackberry phone. It is very popular with businessmen, and was catching on with the public.
I remember the iphone being released and not understanding how revolutionary it was. I thought the touch screen would be cumbersome to use and that having a keyboard was superior.

Research in motion (now called Blackberry) basically collapsed after the debut of the iPhone.

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I disagree with the last part but I agree with the premis that the internet is a mistake now. It was better back in the email and AOL days desu. more raw. Now everything is bots and ads

Easy internet access for everyone was a mistake

Man, no.
The difference between pre and post internet is that post internet/smartphone the free minded people didn't have easy access to cognitive zones where other free minded people could gather and go "wait what the fuck, its ALL fake and gay?"

Just some examples:
If you wanted to listen to the newest cool shit in music, there was no internet to search for the most edgy band out there. You had to dedicate yourself to scene somehow, know the right stores.
If you don't like music, maybe cinema is for you. If you had wanted to meet up, you'd call someone on the land line, hoping they're at home. If they pick up and you're able to make out a date, there is no "im 5 min late" text message. Your friends would teach you to be on time.
And if even cinema isn't your thing and you just wanna learn things and answer the stupid questions, that pop to your head, sell, you better have an encyclopedia or a grown up around to ask.

I can't related to that, as we haven't had anything close to a high trust society (which is explicitly required for the type of communication you're describing) since the 70s.

yeah sounds like cope.
>cognitive zones
yeah you misspelled safespaces/echo chambers
those are under the influence of the alphabet
and come with tons of orthodoxy of their own.
yes, i have pol in mind.
pols board culture itself is a psyop and an expression of conformism.

sorry fren, posting wignat shit does not make you exceptional.

>high trust society
not nearly that.
you dont need high trust to mingle with random people.
thats the whole idea behind going out, isnt it?

well, in the times of yore, you could start a conversation much easier, and that conversation would be much more interesting than today.

if you dont have a twatter wich bombards you with the same ideas as everyone else, with the same advertisements, being basked in the same cultural content, its only logical that people will be much more diverse in their opinions, knowledge, experience of life.

It was less anger at voters though, like an elite squabbling match.

btw, message boards and irc chats are nothing new. those appeared way before actual social media

it's really easy to explore this world. turn your phone off and leave it at home.

pretty comfy.
>go outside
>can actually enjoy whatever I am doing because it is generally accepted that you are not reachable when you're not at home
you think clown shit like calling some guy back from his vacation because of some "emergency" happened back when you could not actually reach him?
although granted, that was before mobile phones, not before smartphones.

Smartphones ruined internet and real life

Back then if you had a flip phone with a camera on it you were hot shit and all the girls liked you.