What did people do all night before the internet?
Sep 11th 2011, 4:46 am
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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?
Sep 11th 2011, 4:49 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
20 years ago? I was either having a wank or thinking about it.
Sep 11th 2011, 5:00 am
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Sep 11th 2011, 5:08 am
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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.
hang on its only 20 years, when did people start getting online?
....I think I was in 1995, 16 years ago.
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Sep 11th 2011, 6:18 am
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Sep 11th 2011, 6:31 am
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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.
Sewed. Read. Occasionally watched the idiot box.
Sep 11th 2011, 7:09 am
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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.
Sep 11th 2011, 7:38 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
Now if I can't sleep, I'm on the internet (or on the computer playing games), or watching Nick at Night.
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Sep 11th 2011, 12:28 pm
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
We had gopher, FTP, telnet, email etc twenty years ago..
Sep 11th 2011, 1:40 pm
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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.
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.
Sep 11th 2011, 2:28 pm
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Sep 11th 2011, 2:59 pm
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
20 years ago I was a newly wed.....'nuff said
Sep 11th 2011, 3:12 pm
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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
