bros from before the internet, how much better was it?

[DiqueJ]

just rewatched back to the future, watching thriller now. In my early years I grew up in a time where internet was just emerging, but by the time I was 12 or 13 it had pretty much taken over. I can remember when I was really young how much more social my life was and eventually that got taken over by MSN, myspace, nexopia and sht. Does anybody have some stories of what life was like before internet, was it really that much better or is it because everything seems great in hind site. fuarking hell, nowadays if you try to talk to a stranger they think you are trying to rape them.

[exyl]

It's pathetic nowadays. People are so scared

[Boerdeur]

internet ruined the world srs (ok not srs but semi srs)

i remember searching on altavista and having a dope ass hotmail account.

every site looked so bad compared to now haha

[Neybor]

Let's just say that getting laid was actually possible

[AndYUKnowThis]

I was only a kid then, but you know what I felt the whole time during the 90s? Everything seemed 'relaxed' like very relaxed. Sure I was a kid, but kids can recall a lot of things. Without the technology of today, everything seemed chill.

-No forcing gay/transexual views
-Cheap gas prices
-Women much easier to talk to and less flaky/egotistical
-Little to no feminism
-Less Liberal ideas thrown about
-Funny, cheap movies
-Money went a lot further



Fuk I miss the 90s mane

[SpongeBobNoPant]

I'm not from the US, and I've only had internet since ~ 15 years old... There's no comparing brah, kids played on the street - and IT WAS SAFE! -, people talked to strangers, to the cashier, to the waitress, families had conversations... Internet is seriously ruining the fabric of social life.

[InfinityThor]

Even better was before mobile phones.

Leave with friends for an entire day, couldn't be contacted, parents didn't care... you just randomly turned up as the sun went down.

[SillieBazzillie]

It was definitely different. Had to pick up a newspaper to see the news around the world. If you wanted to research something, you had to go to the library and search for books and articles. Pron much less prevalent.
People's faces weren't constantly in their phones and no one felt the need to share their entire life with their friends/the world in order to get likes. It seems that people spent more time outside. Shopping took way more time.

And girls were way less slooty, which I guess is both good and bad.

[johsin28]

Ha, ha! We screwed! Everybody was always screwing. We fell in love... we fell in love.

[MrDevereaux]

Way less convenient but life felt more real and just generally 'better'.

It's like with smartphones. Now I've got one I wouldn't ever choose to not have one but I was overall better off before I even knew about them.

[white_pele]

tree climbing, sports all day, building tree houses, spending 12 hrs of the day outside, spending all the time with other kids = no social awkwardness, etc etc, was goat

[newleaseonlife]

Even better was before mobile phones.

Leave with friends for an entire day, couldn't be contacted, parents didn't care... you just randomly turned up as the sun went down.

This...Texting has literally destroyed our culture, no one communicates anymore. I didn't really get into the internet until like 2006...it's cool and all, but I miss the authenticity of not having it. People had to actually be themselves and not hide behind a computer screen.

[nn586]

it sucked ass

internet has improved every aspect of life if you think otherwise you're lying to yourself

[johsin28]

I'm very glad for the internet...things were a lot simpler but now they're better for good. You can talk to anyone online and say anything without any consequences. You couldn't do that **** before internet without getting hurt. More importantly there is a place for everyone no matter how different they are.

Another thing is..internet provides lot of good information..specifically social media, pron has ruined life of people..if those things can be removed I think it'll be good for everyone. Before you had to go to library to learn even simple things and it was impossible to find a job

now it's 10000x easier because of all those career websites and all useful information that's available online. You can do ANYTHING on internet.

A N Y T H I N G

[LosBlancos215]

Jerking off to Dad's porn mags lol

[newleaseonlife]

Jerking off to Dad's porn mags lol

brb pulling pages apart in my Playboy and SCORE mags

[saligia]

It was definitely different. Had to pick up a newspaper to see the news around the world. If you wanted to research something, you had to go to the library and search for books and articles. Pron much less prevalent.
People's faces weren't constantly in their phones and no one felt the need to share their entire life with their friends/the world in order to get likes. It seems that people spent more time outside. Shopping took way more time.

And girls were way less slooty, which I guess is both good and bad.

Porn's been around forever & a day; method of delivery has simply changed from porn mags & VHS to being readily available at one's fingertips.

Even better was before mobile phones.

Leave with friends for an entire day, couldn't be contacted, parents didn't care... you just randomly turned up as the sun went down.

Wholeheartedly agree w/ this.

[GarthVader]

we had to talk to girls IRL to get a date. Sometimes you got rejected but we moved on and learned from that experience. Also, when you got a girl's number, you had to call them on the phone and talk to them to arrange a date or whatever. It was scary at first for some but we didn't have all the internet delusions clouding our brains and fearing that we weren't 10/10 alpha shredded males so it was hopeless.

[SpongeBobNoPant]

Porn's been around forever & a day; method of delivery has simply changed from porn mags & VHS to being readily available at one's fingertips.

You're kinda wrong brah-ette, it was not available at such a great degree. Buying magazines or VHS from time to time =/= literally having THOUSANDS of videos at the click of the mouse. Plus, there wasn't so much fetishism (all that crap like "young wife cucking beta husband with football team", "old grandpa phucking young niece", "you're a cumslut", etc.)... It's all really depraved now.

[7rmr]

I'm not from the US, and I've only had internet since ~ 15 years old... There's no comparing brah, kids played on the street - and IT WAS SAFE! -, people talked to strangers, to the cashier, to the waitress, families had conversations... Internet is seriously ruining the fabric of social life.

This is the perfect example of how moronic this thread is.



Wow, so much safer in the 90's.

[SpongeBobNoPant]

This is the perfect example of how moronic this thread is.



Wow, so much safer in the 90's.

I'll give it to you, since you live in the US, which is not my case, the situtation here is by far worse now.

[911medic]

Even better was before mobile phones.

Leave with friends for an entire day, couldn't be contacted, parents didn't care... you just randomly turned up as the sun went down.

agree so much. Before the Internet and the technology explosion you were not constantly bombarded with bad news. Maybe, if you happened to read the paper that day you'd see a news article about something that happened somewhere else in the world, or if it was really big you'd see a few minutes about it on the evening news. Now, though, you know about it instantly and then you hear about it continuously for days. I think it hurts our collective psyche.

I grew up in a time when all the moms in the neighborhood watch out for everyone's kids, not just there own. We'd spend our days outside riding bikes, or hanging out in the woods and no one worried about us being ok every second.

Sure, there's a lot of benefits to smartphones and the internet when used properly, but I think it's overall effect on society has been a negative one.

[tank2003]

Well, it was a much simpler time.

if you didnt play video games , like me, you occupied yourself with sports and actually going outside. if you wanted to talk to a friend, you went to their house or called them. I was and have never been big on talking on the phone.

Computers and internet have made life easier though. You had endless sources for research purposes. Encarta, Yahoo. But that was on 14.4k and eventually 56k modems. So simple text sites took minutes to load.

Then there was the pre-MISC. AKA the sex section. Good times. Anything goes

[AndYUKnowThis]

This is the perfect example of how moronic this thread is.



Wow, so much safer in the 90's.

My mother and aunt at the ages of 13-16 lived in the city of Chicago. Every weekend they're hope on the bus/train and go to various places around the city. This is at 13-16 yes old. So yes, it was safer.

[Ceo10kdaybro]

- Sega master system 2
- Played instruments
- Coming home from school, went straight outside to play
- prank call telephone directories
- no one could look down on their smart phone when u walked past them
- people used to give each other eye contact when they spoke
- believe what teachers said because no google
- porn magazines smuggled into school and then shared around. Was like buried treasure

[Fire8085]

Wake up, go to school, play outside, learn some ****, come home, play outside, ride my bike, jump in dirt (literally me and my friends would jump in huge ass dirt piles for no reason), turn on the sprinklers in the lawn and run around with my dogs in the sprinklers, have friends over to play Sega and if we were lucky we were allowed to stay up late and watch TV with my parents and we would be looking forward to TGIF all week. Your music taste revolved around whatever was popular and on the radio. My sister played backstreet boys repeatedly and use to record their **** on cassette tape. YOU MEMORIZED EVERYONES HOUSE NUMBER. I can still remember my best friends phone number. Me and like 5 of our friends went to a storage shed one time and found a giant box of porn, we stole it and hid it in a giant field under some bushes...someones parent found it and we all got in trouble.

I got AOL when I was like 14 or something. Even then internet usage wasn't nearly as prevalent. The only use I really had for it at the time was trolling chat rooms.

During my teen years having a cell phone was a privilege. I remember I had a finite number of texts and minutes and I made sure they all counted. We skateboarded around town until one of us got a car and used payphones to call home.

Things like "livejournal" and other social media platforms were in their infancy. It was rare for people to post any pictures. Selfies didn't really exist.

You didn't live to document everything. You just lived to enjoy yourself and for the experience. Family albums were filled with Polaroid pictures.

Most of the time now I feel like every time I go out, I see countless people posting pictures and doing something for the sake of having other people know they are doing it.

It's a weird psychological phenomenon and I think causes a lot of disassociation.

The internet on the other hand has DRASTICALLY IMPROVED many aspects of our lives.

[saligia]

You're kinda wrong brah-ette, it was not available at such a great degree. Buying magazines or VHS from time to time =/= literally having THOUSANDS of videos at the click of the mouse. Plus, there wasn't so much fetishism (all that crap like "young wife cucking beta husband with football team", "old grandpa phucking young niece", "you're a cumslut", etc.)... It's all really depraved now.

Um, no, I'm not disagreeing w/ this. Simply stated that it's been around, including that fetishistic stuff, well before the internet and still managed to cause problems. (Also helps that people are a helluva lot more forthcoming about such issues than they were previously.) I also noted that it's "readily available at one's fingertips" -- or "at the click of a mouse" -- which, in turn, is going to cause an increased prevalence of "issues" related to it.

I've researched/worked w/ sex- & porn-related issues for the better part of 15+ years -- I'm well aware of the depravity of people's practices.

[spunjie]

Even better was before mobile phones.

Leave with friends for an entire day, couldn't be contacted, parents didn't care... you just randomly turned up as the sun went down.

This basically.

[VANZFINEST]

I wish we could go back to the before times

Internet, mostly social media just completely changed the world. I just hate the attention whoring and how its just forced and in your face 24/7/365...



Everything was much for genuine. Its sad how 3 year olds have an iPad or computers. The closest thing I had was a Tamigachi..

[7rmr]

My mother and aunt at the ages of 13-16 lived in the city of Chicago. Every weekend they're hope on the bus/train and go to various places around the city. This is at 13-16 yes old. So yes, it was safer.

brb your aunt taking a bus is now the test for crime rates