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Ja5on Sep 11th 2011 4:46 am

What did people do all night before the internet?
 
It's the weekend and I'm staying up late playing my ps3 and fooling around online.....I was wondering what people used to do say 20 years ago? Did everyone just go to bed at a decent time? Did they stay up and read all night? Maybe watch some VHS?

DeadVim Sep 11th 2011 4:49 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 

Originally Posted by Ja5on (Post 9613074)
It's the weekend and I'm staying up late playing my ps3 and fooling around online.....I was wondering what people used to do say 20 years ago? Did everyone just go to bed at a decent time? Did they stay up and read all night? Maybe watch some VHS?

20 years ago? I was either having a wank or thinking about it.

Ja5on Sep 11th 2011 4:56 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 

Originally Posted by DeadVim (Post 9613080)
20 years ago? I was either having a wank or thinking about it.

That might be the best post I have ever read on these forums! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

DeadVim Sep 11th 2011 5:00 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 

Originally Posted by Ja5on (Post 9613089)
That might be the best post I have ever read on these forums! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Go easy, it was just one I tossed off without thinking ;)

kimilseung Sep 11th 2011 5:08 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
20 years ago, let me see...oh yes, Downloading porn from ARPANET

hang on its only 20 years, when did people start getting online?
....I think I was in 1995, 16 years ago.

Ash UK/US Sep 11th 2011 5:54 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 

Originally Posted by DeadVim (Post 9613080)
20 years ago? I was either having a wank or thinking about it.

And now you have the best of worlds... wanking while online.

DeadVim Sep 11th 2011 6:18 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 

Originally Posted by Ash UK/US (Post 9613156)
And now you have the best of worlds... wanking while online.

Precisely, and with these new tablet thingys you can just wipe them clean :thumbup:

Ozzidoc Sep 11th 2011 6:31 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
Talked on the phone. Talked to family/housemates in person a lot more.

Sewed. Read. Occasionally watched the idiot box.

Dorothy Sep 11th 2011 7:09 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
I'm one of 10 children. You can probably work out what went on before t'internet.

Noorah101 Sep 11th 2011 7:38 am

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 

Originally Posted by Ja5on (Post 9613074)
It's the weekend and I'm staying up late playing my ps3 and fooling around online.....I was wondering what people used to do say 20 years ago? Did everyone just go to bed at a decent time? Did they stay up and read all night? Maybe watch some VHS?

20 years ago, if I couldn't sleep, I used to read a real book with real pages. I don't even think I had cable TV back then, so a lot of channels were off the air at midnight or so.

Now if I can't sleep, I'm on the internet (or on the computer playing games), or watching Nick at Night. :(

Rene

robin1234 Sep 11th 2011 12:28 pm

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
We had gopher, FTP, telnet, email etc twenty years ago..

Keith Sep 11th 2011 1:40 pm

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
Me? Well not much different from today.

I don't have a smartphone and switch off the computer at 6PM. So evenings are spent as they have been for the past 58 years with my wife ,watching some TV or reading.

tonrob Sep 11th 2011 2:28 pm

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
Razzle.

lisa67 Sep 11th 2011 2:59 pm

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
20 years ago I was a newly wed.....'nuff said;)

scrubbedexpat097 Sep 11th 2011 3:12 pm

Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
 
20 years ago life was a real roller coaster. We could barely afford to keep the electricity on or a roof over our head. Lots of early sleepless nights....thank goodness those days are over:o:thumbsup:


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