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.

*snake* · 04-24-2016, 04:14 PM

You make these types of posts a lot

*CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy* · 04-24-2016, 04:17 PM

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

*plastroncafe* · 04-24-2016, 04:30 PM

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.

*Spike Spiegel* · 04-24-2016, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snake

You make these types of posts a lot

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

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 04-24-2016, 05:11 PM

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

*MikeandRaph87* · 04-24-2016, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

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

1984:

*CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy* · 04-24-2016, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

1984:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-74Zh37vQEJ...e-internet.jpg

BWAHAHAHAHA.

*MikeandRaph87* · 04-24-2016, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

BWAHAHAHAHA.

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.

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.

*Prowler* · 04-24-2016, 06:12 PM

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

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.

*AT-Man* · 04-24-2016, 07:10 PM

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

*ToTheNines* · 04-24-2016, 07:13 PM

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

*Prowler* · 04-24-2016, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AT-Man

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

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

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

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

*plastroncafe* · 04-24-2016, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AT-Man

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

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

Live and learn.

*CyberCubed* · 04-24-2016, 08:43 PM

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.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 04-24-2016, 10:30 PM

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

*Prowler* · 04-24-2016, 10:33 PM

Would you rather we talk about turtles nostrils instead?

*plastroncafe* · 04-24-2016, 10:38 PM

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.

*CyberCubed* · 04-25-2016, 12:50 AM

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.

*Prowler* · 04-25-2016, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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?

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.

04-24-2016, 04:17 PM	#3
CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy Annalist Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 16,435	I know, right, Cubed? Thank God for Al Gore. __________________ *ALL THEIR DAYS ARE NUMBERED*

04-24-2016, 05:11 PM	#6
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,773	Don't mind Cubed- he's just going through his mid-life existential crisis a bit early.... __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

04-24-2016, 07:10 PM	#11
AT-Man I SEEN IT Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: FIN Posts: 2,206	If only it had been this easy to find straight girls doing lesbian stuff when I was younger. Nowadays, who even cares? __________________ Through the Golden Door

04-24-2016, 10:30 PM	#16
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,773	Cubed, pretty sure it's your karmic destiny. Like attracts like, after all.... __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

04-24-2016, 04:14 PM	#2
snake Disgusting Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Outer Heaven Posts: 12,231	You make these types of posts a lot

04-24-2016, 07:13 PM	#12
ToTheNines Col. Stinkmeaner Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 19,366	Cybercubed and AT-Man are the same person. Confirmed.

04-24-2016, 08:43 PM	#15
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,881	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.

04-25-2016, 12:50 AM	#19
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,881	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.