What did people do all night before the internet?
Sep 11th 2011, 3:17 pm
#16
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
Probably working, evenings/nights. (change of weekly Shifts so either working or sleeping.)
Sep 11th 2011, 3:36 pm
#17
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
Watch TV, read, clean the house. Do the ironing.
Sep 11th 2011, 4:19 pm
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
homework?
Sep 11th 2011, 4:38 pm
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
... actually talked and had face to face conversations with one another - which seems a rarity and a lost art nowadays ...
Sep 11th 2011, 10:36 pm
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
Twenty years ago I was running round deepest darkest Hampshire(as a Milkman) finding bloody telephone boxes that worked so I could phone Memphis.. only to hear really sensible things like" Its raining so I'm outside"!...Hmmm
Sep 11th 2011, 10:38 pm
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
Sep 12th 2011, 12:52 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
I don't get the people that are saying that they had face to face convos at that hour....You used to go knock on your friends doors at 2am for a chat?
I do like to talk to people more than txt/IM but sometimes it's hard with different time zones and work ect.
I remember being sad when I would get up too early in the morning and the cartoons hadn't started and I had to watch ceefax!
I do like to talk to people more than txt/IM but sometimes it's hard with different time zones and work ect.
I remember being sad when I would get up too early in the morning and the cartoons hadn't started and I had to watch ceefax!
Sep 12th 2011, 1:22 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
I don't get the people that are saying that they had face to face convos at that hour....You used to go knock on your friends doors at 2am for a chat?
I do like to talk to people more than txt/IM but sometimes it's hard with different time zones and work ect.
I remember being sad when I would get up too early in the morning and the cartoons hadn't started and I had to watch ceefax!
I do like to talk to people more than txt/IM but sometimes it's hard with different time zones and work ect.
I remember being sad when I would get up too early in the morning and the cartoons hadn't started and I had to watch ceefax!
alan
Sep 12th 2011, 1:26 am
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Sep 12th 2011, 1:44 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
I had 2 small children and was in bed between 10 and 11 every night. I sewed and read until then....sometimes I stayed up past midnight to finish a project or book!
Sep 12th 2011, 2:56 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
Yeah good question...I probably did talk to my husband more. I used to like knitting, which I never do now. Listen to records, read, watch TV, go to the pub.
Sep 12th 2011, 4:05 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
20 years ago, I was 13. I was probably on the phone talking to my friends or reading a book. I really am a bookophile (word?) - my parents grounded me from reading when I didn't behave - so I had to sneak and read sometimes.
Sep 12th 2011, 4:32 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
20 years ago either working the streets of Kilburn, or sitting on the veranda of the farm in Zimbabwe drinking sundowners. In those days the highlight of Zimbabwe channel 1 on a Saturday night was WWF.
Sep 12th 2011, 5:46 am
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Sep 12th 2011, 9:56 am
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Re: What did people do all night before the internet?
I was living in the Netherlands watching Dutch tv and thanks to the purchase of a satellite at the NAFFI, watching SKY. I was also obsessed with playing Toejam and Earl.