What was pre internet entertainment like?

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Dan posting, it’s what’s for Dinner
Whenever my family is gathered around the tv in recent years we’re usually multi-tasking on our phones. As ridiculous as it sounds, sometimes I think “How the fuck did we just sit here and watch this crap and do nothing else?” Kinda sad that I cant even fathom how we did that even though it wasnt that long ago.
I think someday I want to go back to having a non-smart phone but wonder if I could. I think I’d be happier.

buy a flip phone
 
I'm glad I grew up at the right time. got to experience a mostly Internet childhood up until about 12 when the internet became a little more available and not as niche (1999)
I can remember going round to someone's house, his dad was a Concorde pilot so they were well off, and they had this thing I had heard of called the internet. We logged on. None of us had any idea what to look at. We literally didn't know any websites.
 

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I can remember going round to someone's house, his dad was a Concorde pilot so they were well off, and they had this thing I had heard of called the internet. We logged on. None of us had any idea what to look at. We literally didn't know any websites.
I had absolutely no concept of what the fuck the Internet was when I was little like literally everyone else at the time. My sister had some stuff of hers in an art show at a college when I was a kid, so I just kinda wandered around with my Dad and we eventually went into the library. Dad was talking to some dude and he asked if I wanted to use the Internet and see what it was all about. There were less than 10 computers, and only one had Internet, and you had to sign up for a time slot for it. Nobody was using it at the moment, so the guy tried showing me some websites (which was literally just text with a solid color background, this was probably '96 or '97), but I was even more bored than I was just wandering around the library. I think I everntually told him I liked Ren and Stimpy, so he tried bringing up some site for that (may have even been Nickelodeon's site, idk), but the browser said something like it would take at least five minutes to load.

Just to answer everyone's question since I'm sure it's in the back of everyone's mind, no, the computer guy didn't molest me or show me naughty pictures while my Dad was surfing the 'ol Dewey decimal system.
 
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People (especially kids) were more active. Even the most un-athletic kids did some kind of physical activity. Internet and parents afraid their kids will get killed or abducted are why todays kids are all fat and soft.

When I was young parents said “Go outside! Don’t sit around!” Now it’s “Don’t leave the house, sit with this iPad”
Predator panic was completely due to that one faggot John Walsh and his obsession with child abductions.
 
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buy a flip phone
easier said than done.
i've done the "holier than thou" (if you wanna call it that) no internet/smartphone shit for months at a time.
no external input.
It's great for your brain but you really fall out of the loop. You become "that guy" who doesn't know what's going on.

not to mention it's literally impossible if you have to travel. mobile banking, email, hotel shit, delivery, work shit, airbnb, MEETING WOMEN, good luck pulling out a flipphone if you wanna get laid, again, unless you're the eccentric millionaire who wouldnt be dating in the first place

unless you have fuck you money/are retired and live in the sticks, the flip phone is self sabotage
 
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easier said than done.
i've done the "holier than thou" (if you wanna call it that) no internet/smartphone shit for months at a time.
no external input.
It's great for your brain but you really fall out of the loop. You become "that guy" who doesn't know what's going on.

not to mention it's literally impossible if you have to travel. mobile banking, email, hotel shit, delivery, work shit, airbnb, MEETING WOMEN

unless you have fuck you money/are retired and live in the sticks, the flip phone is self sabotage
Yeah, makes as much sense as telling someone to 'stick to Pagers for your mental health' when cellphones were becoming a thing. Tech means you adapt. Im sure when fire was discovered there were still some rubes in the cave (pussies) "I still like my meat raw" just cuz they're ovewhelmed/cant handle tech advancements.
 

aRTie02150

STEP OFF!
I remember the first time I found porn in the wild. Me and my friend Steven were behind some factory that was a tannery and smelled awful.

There was an add for a vibrator. I remember the ad saying "IT'S ELECTRIC" in bold font. My friend Steven screamed out "it's electric boogie woogie woogie." And we laughed so hard someone heard us and yelled at us to get off the property.

It's been over 20 years and I know I can't still text him and just say "it's electric...." And he'll still reply with "boogie woogie woogie" without skipping a beat.

Stupid memories like that would never have stayed in my head if I had a smartphone rotting my brain during my youth.
 

Mr-Wrinkle-Paws

My name's Henry. And you're here with me now
It helped not being a Pat, where you were friends with different groups like the potheads, metalheads,etc.. there was always somebody around, video arcades were big back then, atari, blockbuster with game/movie rentals started the slide of staying inside, part of your day was traveling to stores getting shit, phones ruined a lot back before then nobody had no way of contacting you could and happened a lot spend six or more hours hanging out with friends uninterrupted, for me getting first project car at thirteen, a lot of fishing, hunting ,hiking always kept me busy,if only one person was around then it was basically doing beavis and butthead type of shit starting fires, blowing shit up
 
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I remember the first time I found porn in the wild. Me and my friend Steven were behind some factory that was a tannery and smelled awful.

There was an add for a vibrator. I remember the ad saying "IT'S ELECTRIC" in bold font. My friend Steven screamed out "it's electric boogie woogie woogie." And we laughed so hard someone heard us and yelled at us to get off the property.

It's been over 20 years and I know I can't still text him and just say "it's electric...." And he'll still reply with "boogie woogie woogie" without skipping a beat.

Stupid memories like that would never have stayed in my head if I had a smartphone rotting my brain during my youth.
So.....did you guys fuck or what??
 
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It helped not being a Pat, where you were friends with different groups like the potheads, metalheads,etc.. there was always somebody around, video arcades were big back then, atari, blockbuster with game/movie rentals started the slide of staying inside, part of your day was traveling to stores getting shit, phones ruined a lot back before then nobody had no way of contacting you could and happened a lot spend six or more hours hanging out with friends uninterrupted, for me getting first project car at thirteen, a lot of fishing, hunting ,hiking always kept me busy,if only one person was around then it was basically doing beavis and butthead type of shit starting fires, blowing shit up
There was this faggot named Romeo from a Jehovah Witness family that everybody hated and thrived on attention, even negative...he'd eat chalk, bugs, anything to gross us out. Once I stole his tuna sandwich from his lunchbox and dumped out the tuna and replaced it with pencil shavings and made it look as much as tuna as possible (soaked em in a little water etc) put it back in his lunchbox and waited for recess.

He let out such a curdling scream like he went amok, and just about had it/last straw. My friends all looked at me like "bro he snapped, you went too far" and I got Dan Mullen'd for a bit lol. "Are you not entertained" wasn't cutting it, they said I was a POS, same ppl pranking him and making fun of his parents for going door to door with their dumb pamphlets.
 

IGotATreeOnMyHouse85

Stand Alone Fruit
Predator panic was completely due to that one faggot John Walsh and his obsession with child abductions.
Yeah especially when child abductions cases aren’t common. I don’t think one happened anywhere near me (I lived outside a major city) when I was growing up. Half the time the “abductions” are one of the parents who doesn’t have custody. My parents always said “nobody wants to steal you” and they were right.
 
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