Its hard to believe the internet has only been around for about 20 years
 

The internet was just made available to the public back around '95 and '96. Its actually hard to believe the internet has only been around for 20 years.

Back in the 80's and 90's you had to go to the library to look up something for school. You couldn't do research reports with the click of a button like you can do now. We now have the entire world and its information at our fingertips. Now you can also see news from anywhere in the world and know what's going on in any country.

There was no e-mail, so you always had to call someone up on the phone if you wanted to say something, and this was hard especially for jobs looking for interviews and stuff. You needed videogame mags like Nintendo Power to help you with games and cheat codes if you got stuck. Back then videogame knowledge came from word of mouth and magazines.

If you missed episodes of your favorite show on TV you were out of luck until reruns. Can you believe there was a time where some people missed entire episodes of their favorite shows for YEARS simply because they had to wait for reruns that never happened and never saw episodes until years later? VHS tapes also rarely released whole series back then. Old 80's TMNT VHS were only 2 episodes per tape! There were no online fandoms, so the only time you would find fans of a show you liked was at conventions or on the schoolground.

Its hard to believe I lived through all this too (although I was a young kid so it didn't matter too much to me at the time), because nowadays no internet is unthinkable.

You make these types of posts a lot

I know, right, Cubed? Thank God for Al Gore.

All those poor souls on usenet, if only they knew they didn't exist.
Or the post office, that tried and true form of communication that existed long before the telephone.

Or the importance of television shows with summer re-runs, actual seasons, and Sweeps Weeks that meant something.

But no, that's all gone now. All gone.
Because apparently it never existed, because no internet was there to tell us it was.

Alas.

It's hard to tell if it's more for us or for himself.

Don't mind Cubed- he's just going through his mid-life existential crisis a bit early.... :trolleye:

1984:
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BWAHAHAHAHA. :tlol:

It probably came to him in a dream after he listened to the Purple Rain album and wanted to find a way to screw Prince.:P:roll: The timing is right!

Btw, just to correct Cubed, email was developed in 1965 at MIT by hooking up two computers to one another. 19 years before Al Gore/US military intelligence developed the internet.

Again I knew you were the OP when I first read the title of the thread. You're getting predictable, CyberCubed :lol:

But yeah, the internet has changed the world and it's a fact. The most important technological invention since the television, imo. It's amazing how much the internet made it easier for people to communicate and access knowledge and entertainment. It's both a blessing and a curse, however. A lot of times you just end up wasting time on it instead of putting it to a good/productive use.

A lot of younger folk take this for granted but trust me, back in the late 90s/early 2000s it was quite mindblowing to be able to talk to people from the other side of the world for the first time ever. I still remember the first time I talked to people from North America, South America, India and East Asia for the first time ever. The internet is the face of globalization and has made the world a lot smaller, that's for certain.

If only it had been this easy to find straight girls doing lesbian stuff when I was younger. Nowadays, who even cares?

Cybercubed and AT-Man are the same person. Confirmed.

I actually saw a straight girl doing that once at a party. Well, at least afaik, she was straight. Maybe she had slight bi tendencies? Dunno.

But that's the sole case I can think of. I doubt most girls I know would partake in that.

I'm pretty sure AT-MAN is parodying CC's posts.

Would have saved you a whole bunch of time if you'd gone looking for bi-girls instead.

Live and learn.

We're talking about lesbians again and girls kissing? How do my threads always wind up like that? I didn't even bring it up this time.

Cubed, pretty sure it's your karmic destiny. Like attracts like, after all....

Would you rather we talk about turtles nostrils instead?

I can take some close up candid shots of the ones I have here.
They're not quite as interestingly rendered as the ones in the movies, but they're real.

So plastron since you were already an adult in the 80's and 90's, what did people actually do back then in their spare time? There was no internet, most people didn't even use computers, no cell phones, TV only had what...10 channels back then or something?

Like if I was an adult back then I'd probably be bored out of my mind. I can't imagine growing up with no technology. Its like the stone age.

How could they miss something they had no access to? Did you miss youtube back in 1999? Or online gaming when you played GoldenEye back in 1997? :P

Did anyone say Turtle Nostrils?

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The Internet existed in the early 90s, you just couldn't go online.

There's not a single correct thing in this entire post.
It's kind of amazing.

It is hard to believe that the Internet has only been around for about 20 years alright. It's mind blowing the amount of stuff kids have access to nowadays. I'm glad that Facebook wasn't around when I was younger, though, as I think there is too much information on that website for teenagers to comprehend.

Facebook wasn't the first ever website of its kind, though. Back in 2005-2008 teenagers and young adults in my country were already heavily invested in a FB-like social network. The difference is, all you could do was post photos and comment on them. No "liking" pages, "following" your favorite bands, musicians, media outlets, etc. And also no status updates and the sort.

The thing is, facebook was the first ever site of the sort to become popular on a global scale, while before that each country or every 3-4 countries had a social network that was highly popular there and not so much anywhere else. Plus, Facebook was when I started seeing older people joining in the social media craze, while in the mid-2000s it was mostly teenagers and young adults.

MySpace was a thing before Facebook.

What did people do in the 80's besides listening to Sony Walk Man?

Facebook started as a social network for college students. You needed a .edu email address to register.

They went outside and got fresh air? Something this current generation hates to do.

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Not sure, I've never met the guy. He must have had a lot to say.

MySpace was mostly an American thing, right? It wasn't big here. Only musicians and aspiring musicins had MySpace accounts here.

The big social network here in the mid-late 2000s was something called hi5. It was also big in Russia and Ukraine, I think.

Being a big video game fan I'm surprised you didn't mention the NES, the Atari consoles, the Master System, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, etc.

This is what I'm assuming. Videogames were in their infancy in the 80's, TV shows had limited channels and there was no internet/computers.

Listening to music was big in the 80's or going outside. Weren't skateboards and roller skates popular in the 80's? I vaguely remember being a kid and seeing people them often.

I was born in 1990 but from what I've heard from older folks, back in the 80s, and hell even in the early-mid 90s, it was still common for kids in the big cities to spend a lot of time outside and their parents weren't afraid they'd get hurt. Then again, considering people didn't have cell phones back then, it was harder for parents to control their kids like that.

I'd say MySpace was popular everywhere when it was at it's peak before Facebook showed up, after the people who bought MySpace completely screwed it up, it became a mostly American thing because that's all it was was bands and people in Hollywood. If you were to go on it today, 90% of your sh*t would be deleted so if you had certain "memories" on there, they're gone.

Bebo was big in Ireland around the same time before Facebook became popular in the late 00s.

A funny thing I've heard people saying before was that the world felt safer back in the 80s even with the iron curtain and the two minutes to midnight thing. Everyone is afraid of terrorism nowadays... which is odd considering the height of terrorism in europe was in the 70s/80s.

The world is more safer now than ever. Don't let old fogey's tell you otherwise. Not to mention medical breakthroughs for diseases/operations have skyrocketed over the last 30 years.

In the 80's the Soviet Union still existed and the wars in the middle east were just as bad as they are now.

The media loves to fear monger. Also, I think 9/11 has scared a lot of people. It's crazy how that day has changed the world. I don't think we're even still aware of the magnitude of that day.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

That name sounds familiar. Never realized it was a social network, though.

I remember back in 2004 and 2005 there was a somewhat big social network called Fotolog. Some of my classmates had that. It was a place where people shared their photos, basically.