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

*CyberCubed* · 04-24-2016, 03:54 PM

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.

04-24-2016, 03:54 PM	#1
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,881	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.