life before the internet?

[kunk75]

mostly for the office. metropolis, dwell, comm arts, antennae, gq, esquire, details, people (a client of ours), InStyle (ditto), wallpaper, tokion, etc.....

[cheep]

i still watch pornos over and over. well... only one... but i still dont have any internet access at home, and im not fapping at work.

[newaesthetic]

I lived in a little hick town of maybe 1000 up until the end of 2000, but I remember being introduced to the internet about two years before the move. Our school would send us off to webcrawler (it looks to have changed an awful lot now) to research whatever it was we were doing in class, and more often than not, we wouldn't find anything. I do remember a teacher telling us to go to "waterpolution.com", and we all ended up at a porn site due to her misspelling. That was awkward.

I'm pretty sure I spent nearly every day biking on trails, lighting off caps or burning things, climbing trees and making elaborate plans to ruin the neighbourhood girls' plans (very G.R.O.S.S.), and going over to the one payphone in town and calling 1800RUHORNY and taking random stabs at numbers when it asked for our credit card (which worked roughly 1/4 of the time). Played a ton of street hockey too. Winter meant sledding with our GT racers, and in summer I spent probably two hours a day in our pool. I remember making half-hour long "radio shows" on tapes. My grandma was the first person I knew who bought an NES; I remember my whole family staying up for most of the night playing Duck Hunt and drinking. When we bought ours a year later, it stayed solo until '94 when we switched camps to the Genesis. Never owned more than 8 games for each.

I remember biking to one of the neighbouring towns about 90min away for the sole reason of saying bye to the class hot chick between grades four and five. My friend and I went without telling our parents (we wouldn't have been allowed), with no money and one warm water bottle. He ate a gummi candy off the side of the highway and we ended up not even being able to find her house. Fail.

[whitney]

^ i was kidding as i read more mags than anyone i know. at last count i have 28 subscriptions.

which ones do you read? I average about six a month that I actually read 90% of the rest I just flip through while waiting for friends

edit-nvm

iPhone and wifi =slowasfuck

[kunk75]

^ i just posted above, but pretty much all the basic and not-so-basic fashion and graphic and industrial design mags.

i sit on the train to work for 35 mins each way and refuse to do work on there so i read or sleep.

[Lab]

built treehouses

played baseball everyday til twilight

lots of grass stains on my knees

recon missions against the neighbors

loitered in bookstores

indoor poolz

took a boombox outside and blasted Space Jam

basketball ANYWHERE, soccer ANYWHERE, hockey ALL OVER THE PLACE

snickers bars, skateboards, pretended to be a ninja, made secret societies, wrote a book on mint chocolate chip ice cream

lots of comics kopped

snes parties

action figures

dancing to 90s music badly

lots of flight jackets worn

traveled all the time, plane tix were cheap, sat on a lot of beaches and spilled lots of pineapple

fuck the internet, i miss my childhood

[andewhall]

Love reading those trashy girls rags at the fish & chip shop, that bird has cellulite...nooo waaay.

I remember when my computer games nerd flatmate first got the internet on at our house. I didn't unstand what it was all about, where is all this porn coming from? What is this thing. I didn't really start using the net for 3-4 years later.

[exhausted]

i sit on the train to work for 35 mins each way and refuse to do work on there so i read or sleep.

You can do chin/pull ups with the train's handle bars

[mr fluffernutter]

i like ones i dont have to read , like huge

[andewhall]

You can do chin/pull ups with the train's handle bars

You could bench press other passengers.

[kunk75]

no polls. i'm always afraid i'd have to talk to people if i wasn't reading. you don't understand the kind of golf-loving chino-wearing assholes i have to take the train with.

You can do chin/pull ups with the train's handle bars

[andewhall]

Golf does my head in, tried playing it for a while. A buddy and myself went to this ritzy course one day, the guy was like...did you guys book...yeah of course. But then we had to play with these two old guys, typical golf nerds. On one hole I was last to shoot...and everyone started walking up...anyway, gave it an almighty slice and whacked it straight into one of the old guys ass. He actually jumped into the air as it hit his ass. Haha.

[kunk75]

i'm the only guy i know who doesn't have a "thing", be it golf or hunting or some shit. i'm also the only guy who doesn't hate his wife so there may be a connection.

my only hobbies are lifting weights, fucking and smoking. i'm a real intellectual.

[please underestimate]

the earliest i remember not having internet was when i was around 10.

pokemon was the shit back then.

[Begåvningsreserven]

We made short films with an old vhs-camera. Editing by turning the camera on/off. Used a walkman with the headphones duct taped to the camera mic for soundtrack. Then we got drunk at watched it. Yay.

[gimmegimme]

fap...using my "imagination". So glad I don't have to think anymore.

[andewhall]

Dear Leader Beggzzy. Please make retro Begz pre interwebs cult movie threak.

We made short films with an old vhs-camera. Editing by turning the camera on/off. Used a walkman with the headphones duct taped to the camera mic for soundtrack. Then we got drunk at watched it. Yay.

Kunk. Like that stupid tv show, Everyone loves Raymond. It only appeals to guys that are married to whinny bitches.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ how does that work? (at gimmex2)

[meader]

I was out in the woods, choppin' trees all day long. Heck, I was one heck of a hard work'n' kid. But it was worth it, nothin' like grandmas pork chops in even'n'. Altho the pork chops was all I'd got for all the hard work I'd put in, cause I was one heck of a fan of the doctrines of Luther (the good ol', medieval type thing) back then. Now I relax and use the computer a lot, you know, the internet and such, surfin the web, chattin, lookin at cool pictures, playin' funny games, readin 'bout cool stuff (reptoids, ufos,etc) etc.

[Begåvningsreserven]

Dear Leader Beggzzy. Please make retro Begz pre interwebs cult movie threak.

here you go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7crWdI4ON0

[thescott]

Stole my friends porns on VHS so I'd have something to wank too besides the 20 minute workout.

[skiniks]

omg lol

[artificialsky]

I was waiting for JackPhotography to chime in about how his childhood consisted of finding out about Supreme pre-internet and he did not disappoint.

[mpcec]

Before the internet I knew a lot more like minded people. Then once I started going online I discovered different music/books/clothes... different culture essentially and the list of like minded people got smaller and smaller. Before I had much more in common with people, now most of my friends are either carried over from that time or are friendships based off of sense of humor and not what I/We like.

I'm really thankful for the internet I guess. Without it my worldview and view of culture would be much much smaller. I have no idea what I would be like today with it.

I owe a lot of people who I've never even met in person for helping shape who I am today. I think without these people/ the internet I would be a lesser person.

[mrip]

the internet ruined my life

[misfitasylum]

before the internet, I was real young so it was mostly spent watching cartoons, imagining stuff with toys, and playing video games.

[julzkind]

actually listening and recording songs off the radio and when i couldnt find a blank cassette id put duct tape on another one to use it.

playing baseball with my brothers

going to parks

telling ghost stories

playing "light as a feather-stiff as a board"

watching Singled Out

recording shows i wanted to rewatch on vhs

read a lot of books

went to record exchange to trade cds i didnt want anymore or sell to get money

rode my hush puppies bike with the banana seat

wrote songs/poems/stories

painted/drew

=/

[the_state]

i keep trying to think how much my (unborn) kids are gonna shit their pants when they find out that their dad grew up without internet or cell phones.

[sushijerk]

My pre-internet activities are irrelevant as it was an incorrect lifestyle that I no longer subscribe to.

[B-Dawg]

Skateboarding, Nintendo, playing baseball. I think that's the gist of it.