Imagine...........there was no internet

In my mid teens the internet wasn't really around, and certainly before that PCs weren't a thing to have at home and most companies still didn't use them by default. Sure there were a few dial up companies, but the thought of downloading stuff and being "online" wasn't even a concept for me. Though in the years that followed and by the time I got to university, 256k broadband was starting to become available! It was amazing! Though I had had experience of ISDN lines which were actually very reliable and suprisingly easy to work with.

I think I still have netscape installion floppies somewhere...
 
I remember life before the internet, it was actually a lot simpler. Things got done and you actually had to go out if you needed to get in touch with mates.

The internet and mobile phones started getting commonplace around the same time. So when you remember life without the net, you also remember life without mobile phones, and it just seemed a lot more... basic.
 
Id probably quite like it, Id have to go out with people and actually look around the shops and stuff rather than find everything I wanna know online which is what everyone does these days. I miss blowing a fiver on a games mag just to get the GTA:Vice City demo or the Getaway demo. The info I can find onlin inside 5 minutes used to fill half a day waling round town to get the same level of info.

Whilst the web is a great thing, I miss being a kid thats spends hours drooling round all the games and technology shops.
 
KNiVES said:
I remember life before the internet, it was actually a lot simpler. Things got done and you actually had to go out if you needed to get in touch with mates.

The internet and mobile phones started getting commonplace around the same time. So when you remember life without the net, you also remember life without mobile phones, and it just seemed a lot more... basic.
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Ditto - when I used to meet my friends non of us had mobile phones (they didn't really exist) and we managed just fine!
 
Telescopi said:
I remember buying public domain discs from adverts in magazines, in fact the mags were a critical source of new software and demos with their coverdiscs.

Encarta and it's ilk - seemed so modern, a whole encyclopedia on a few discs, much easier to search than books, more content.
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I still have piles of PC Plus cover discs in a box somewhere in the attic, remember the good old days of shareware? the shareware episodes of games were bigger and more in depth than the average COD game is now lol.

And Encarta was awesome, especially as teachers had never heard of it then, copy and paste for the win! :P
 
Freefaller said:
Ditto - when I used to meet my friends non of us had mobile phones (they didn't really exist) and we managed just fine!
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Landlines were much more commonly used. Meeting friends, we used to ring each other on the house phone before hand arranging a definite time and place to meet. To be fair it did work most of the time, of course you always had that mate that would show up late. I know things have changed since as I don't even know what my land line number is now, it's used only for ADSL.
 
I do think the internet is pretty amazing, and I make a good living out of it as a web developer, but at the same time I'm glad I grew up in a time before it (and mobile phones).
 
My favourite:

Me: Hi, I am looking for customer assistant position and would like to hand in my CV :)

Store Manager: All of our positions are available online

Me: So you don't take CVs in person?

Store Manager: No!! As I said check online

Me: :mad: (Leaves the store!!)

I must say I have a love-hate relationship with online job search
 
One of my favourite things about the internet is junk/spam email, I love loging into yahoo/hotmail to see the junk/spam folder count has increased, it warms my heart and makes me feel all happy inside

Why?

Because its there and not spewing out of my fax machine printed on my paper with my ink! :P
 
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