What was life like before the internet was invented? (18 year old here!)
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Pumby umby umpkin Est. 1989
ANSWERS: 9
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Very strange... it's like a gray haze
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People 'chatted' and 'interacted' in person.
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(58 year-old here) I was wondering the exact same thing last night. A question came up and immediately we thought "google it". How did we research things back then? Library was about the only resource and then it took FOREVER to find what you were looking for, if you could find it at all. YAY for the internets!!
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Well, I was a kid myself, but I live in a pretty rural place, we didn't get it till last year. Basically, I think it has become easier to communicate with more people quickly, without tying up the phone line. It has revolutionized the way we meet people (obviously), for better or worse. All the info at your finger-tips. But I do think we're becoming a less personal society. I don't know about that part, but it's certainly made school easier. (I'm getting my MA.) Hope this helped.
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It was harder to communicate with people from faraway lands. You might as well consider people from other countries as people from other planets. But now, people from Europe, North and South America, Australia, Africa and Asia can communicate with one another as if they're next-door neighbors.
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Let me pull out my cane and hobble over to the typing machine. Phones, written or typed letters, face to face communication. People took time off for vacations and were not expected to be available at all times.
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books. You had to go to the library to get information. We used dictionaries and reference books. very tedious, and no real cutting edge stuff. We also wrote letter to friends and family...well some of us did. It all seems so long ago and far away.........
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We had to lick envelopes to send mail. We had to look in the newspaper for jobs, houses, personals and classifieds. We had to go to the store to compare two items. We couldn't just bid on them. We had to go get the dictionary or encyclopedia to look something up. We were probably less informed, but we had smaller butts too.
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I'm answering this question not from the perspective of what did we 'use' before the internet, but what did we 'do with our time' before the internet. I'm not certain this is what you were asking, but anyways..... We read books; watched TV; listened to the radio; played records; we went outside; went to the park; hiked; played sports; went to poolhalls; bowling;......... I know all those things can be done now, we just did it more often.
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