Anyone here old enough to remember the days before the internet? Was it better than now? Were you happier offline than online?
Anyone here old enough to remember the days before the internet? Was it better than now...
Juan Brown
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Xavier Thomas
back then we read more books and librarys were more important as a source for information instead of wikipedia.
Josiah Bennett
from a 3rd world shithole so I can only use internet at the cafe once a week
it was ok
Luke James
>35
no we had internet when i was a kid
Tyler Bell
I was happier but I was also a child
Noah Rivera
You need to be really old to have witnessed that. At least 70s. Internet already existed and became somewhat popular until the 90s. But it wasn't as present as today, where you have connection and powerful devices everywhere.
Its good to be raised with it, but I can be happy that I wasn't a child during the smartphone era.
Zachary Long
>He considers Wikipedopedia, a site written by socialist trannies trying to turn your kids gay a source of information.
No, it has data on it.
Ian Martinez
I'm 38. We didn't have internet until around 95/96, when I was 11/12. It was an adventure as a kid checking everything out. But then you turned it off and went outside, and weren't carrying it around in your pocket. So still building forts, riding bikes, going fishing, having fist fights over dumb shit like someone kicking a football onto the flat roof of a building and him not wanting to climb the building to get it back. I miss link diving. Back when your favourite bands page had a links section and provided links to their label and their friends band, and you would open a whole bunch of sites looking for new music.
Was it better? No. Nostalgia and all that. Today there's so much out there. The difference between now and then is like... back then the internet was a wild west town in the late 1800s. It's one dusty main street with little shops along it that sell all sorts of random shit. Whereas todays website is on the same site as the old west town, but it's a massive four lane black top with strip malls on either side and each store only sells one type of product and they want to keep you in their store for as long as possible so you'll buy their shit and when you hand over your card to pay for your shit your details go into some black box somewhere so your name and data of your purchase get's added to a list and you get bombarded with adverts for useless shit you don't need based on the fact you bought a hammer, L brackets and screwdriver one time and now all you get is spam for Makita shit.
I was happier either online or offline. I was a kid. I didn't have to worry about shit. It was as I approached 30 and friends and extended family started getting married and having kids that I was like "oh shit" and having to work to exist through two recessions so far this century has been fucking exhausting. At least I haven't a wife or kids to support.
Elijah Allen
I'm 30 and didn't have it until 14. It sucked BTW.
Isaiah Watson
Was born in 1997 so I can't say much before 2000. What I will say is windows xp was the first OS i actually learned and some of my best memories on the computer came from it. Internet is now shit apart from a few select areas.
Colton Cox
urbanite
sounds like you still are, the latter that is
zoomer, 2-digit IQ, OUCH
redditor
tl;dr fedora-tier redditor
0/10 thread
Brayden Scott
it was shit
I was a loser shutin and the internet becoming popular has made it socially acceptable to be perpetually online
early days of the internet people thought it was disgusting
Owen Martinez
To be honest it was the internet became a real thing when i was in high school (Graduated 1997) So i can speak to what a Childhood was like before the internet. Which involved mostly playing outside until dark, Riding Bicycles, Playing sports, and breaking bones falling out of trees, and doing other stupid shit that most post Internet kids would only watch on youtube. As far as school to do a paper you would have to go to the Library or call a relative who happened to own a Encyclopedia to read you the relevant article over the phone.
for contrast my niece who recently turned 19 does not even know how to ride a bike... it is rather pathetic.
Joseph Gray
Before the internet I spent my life in the library. After school I went home and did my homework while eating and right afterwards I sat on my bike and was on the way to the library. At school I spent every breakfast- and lunch-break at the school library, it was part of the club activity to be present at break time in case someone wanted to borrow books.
After we got internet at home I went to the library less often and I immediately became interested in forum culture. That lasted for over 6 years and I was active in 3 forums in parallel, accumulating over 7000 postings combined.
That was the time when I started disliking the internet, must have been around 2007. Then I started an Anime club and created monthly afk meetups on one of the forums. Before I disbanded around 2010 my afk meetups had over 60 attendees. Till now the passion of the internet from 2000-2010 never returned to me, Any Forums is the only place I visit online while 90% of my life is lived offline.
Visit anidb.net for the 2000-2010 internet experience. Except for phonefags.
James Morris
The golden era was the internet before smartphones. Before every normie got on and facebook/google dominated everything.
Brayden Hill
>I was active in 3 forums in parallel, accumulating over 7000 postings combined.
Nathan Diaz
Close. But the content of "news" sites these days are just articles reporting on what someone said on twitter, stretched waaaaay the fuck out into 500 words.
Kevin Scott
Golden age was before there was async javascript shit loaded on every fucking site. Before "tech" became accessible to every pajeet fresh out of scam school with a fake degree.
Ethan Nguyen
>anidb.net
Thanks user. Do you know any more sites like this ?
Cameron Smith
When Final Fantasy VII came out it was the first FF to be released in my region so I had no clue what the series was or what any of the other FF games were like and no way to find out. I also had no way to find any secrets in any game. if you got stuck, you were fucked. There were strategy guides but they were expensive and often had incorrect or insufficient information. It was hell
Benjamin Myers
im 35. My life went downhill when i got internet in 2000.
>porn addiction
>listen to inappropriate music
>post on message boards with teenage doomers that listened to nirvana and did nothing but complained
>did things like this for most of my teenage years
The internet is cancer