I Remember Life Before the Internet Stories of Experiences

And......wasn't it boring?

I think, since the 80's anyways, technology has taken on leaps and bounds...

It was all letters and phone calls....and, obviously, you would have to know the person before you phoned or wrote to them...

Nowadays these kids rip each other apart on social media with no regard for how their words impact others.

I know, because my generation was the first to get into it. We all did this and made our mistakes and realized how quickly...

i remember reading my father's old magazines and how fascinating an encyclopedia was.. i remember going to a library wih some friends feeling so happy and so motiaved to read.. when we get curious about something we dont just read...

That's where you got info before the Internet. I remember having to go to the library & looking through tons of book to get a little snippet of info here & another there.

I remember sometimes wondering something & not being to get the...

Internet is a great network which spreads all over the world. Besides it connects the millions of computer system as well as the business around the globe. Internet uses some protocols which are of having same standards in the whole...

I had a variety of things to do to occupy my time and still do, even though the Internet has presented a new home for me.

When I was a little girl, I attended a small private school that I thought was huge at the time. I also had fun...

Life before the Internet was highly inconvenient. If my parents needed to purchase a new vacuum cleaner as picking it up with our fingers just wasn't getting the dust up with the debris, they couldn't sit in a chair and research vacuum...

Life before the Internet,I remember it,Lookin' up things,Going through books,Sometimes,It took ages,Sometimes,Couldn't find,How times have changed.

Before the internet there was a worldwide network. It ran on a backbone called fido net with a file bone. I had many networks I carried. They all ran abotu the same. I had a 10 line BBS (8 public lines) thatpeople would call into...

when i was a kid my mom got an old vcr the ones with the piano keys .
kids these days have DVD Hd Blue ray and all sorts of crap

i remember old tvs without remotes
kids now have deluxe TVs with about 500 satelitte channels and whatever...

We used to play stupid childish games outside. And go to the library when I need a good book. Now I can find almost anything online and play games I don’t need to move my body for – just a click of the mouse away. I don’t know if...

Each time i leave my cell phone at home or have internet down I realise that i start feeling helpless...but i do remember life before internet and mobile phones...i guess those times will never be back

Before the internet, before cell phones, before the little satellite dishes everyone now has. I remember people who use to actually communicate with the person standing beside them. Smart people remembered there facts, Google wasn't the...

I was 9 when we got our first pc. A 700mhz, 64mb desktop with a cdrom drive. We got the net later. We only had 56k modems in our country at that time. Before cellphones had wap, or colour screens for that matter. Back then, internet was...

...And in a lot of ways it made life easier when we didn't have the Internet. There was more social interaction between people, and there were more places you could go to actually spend time together like arcades and roller skating...

I work a nightshift job and stll keep the same schedule even on my day's off. The internet was alot of help getting through the long winter month's cooped up inside as it gave me somthing to pass the time with at night. I probably spend...

Yes I'm old, obviously. 
My kids grew up with a computer and as soon as the eldest was 10 we got our first internet connection because I thought it would be helpful for school and it was!
When I was young I had to type my applications...

Yes i had a good life. Family and friend times, cook outs, vacations, swimming, wrestling around. Going places. Ever since hubby got the internet he cant wait to get on it from the time he gets up til the time he goes to bed. If he goes...

I was just a girl who love to write stories and journals.Every day after breakfast and bath, I'd get my pen and start writing away my emotions.I buy books every chance I get,too.

Life was so simple.I cook and bake....and wait for my...

we had encyclapedias to look stuff up, a lot slower but it was available, just before the net kicked in we used to log onto bulletin boards, download a program called winsock and log onto a monochrome data base called the internet, very...