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In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« on: June 15, 2011, 03:32:26 AM »
In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'   What did you do?

How did you store info?,  how did  you communicate?  How did you amuse yourself?


Does anyone remember the old CB radio?



omg how embarrassing i used to have one!
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2011, 03:37:39 AM »
I used to live alone without any internet. I used to watch a lot of Star Trek and spend a fair bit of time in my garden as there was nothing but sand when I moved in. I also repainted my whole place except for my bedroom.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2011, 03:38:42 AM »
I was hooked on Star Trek too?  Lol
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2011, 03:44:04 AM »
I used to listen to CD's or the radio in my room while doing crafty projects. One the nights I wasn't with my then BF that is.

I didn't get internet at my house till about July 2005 and it was dial-up.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2011, 04:21:58 AM »
Ahh, the days when mail came early. Those were the days.

I even remember life without TV, and I have very vivid memories about the first transistor radio we bought. I was not even 2 years old then. :D

Wasn't too bad, life without the internet.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2011, 05:21:39 AM »
Read a lot
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2011, 07:11:07 AM »
I remember feeling really cool when i had a filofax   lol
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2011, 07:51:31 AM »
Libraries and encyclopedias. I devoured them.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2011, 09:39:44 AM »
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2011, 09:55:26 AM »
Quote from: eris on June 15, 2011, 09:39:44 AM
VCR porn

lol,  i remember our old machine -  it was huge
i dunno if you had them over there,  but we
also had 'betamax' video  -  that was the worst.
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2011, 01:47:37 PM »
Quote from: eris on June 15, 2011, 09:39:44 AM
VCR porn

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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2011, 03:08:39 PM »
Quote from: bodaccea on June 15, 2011, 09:55:26 AM
Quote from: eris on June 15, 2011, 09:39:44 AM
VCR porn

lol,  i remember our old machine -  it was huge
i dunno if you had them over there,  but we
also had 'betamax' video  -  that was the worst.



hmm, I'm not sure EXACTLY when they came out, but we got our first VCR about 1985. And I would say that by 1987 ( at the ripe old age of 6 and a half) I was already well versed in the VCR porn my much older brother had

I would try to remember the EXACT SECOND it was on, so I could rewind and not get caught 8)


Now that I think about it, watching porn at 6 years old ( including tranny and BDSM porn) probably made me the fucked up sex addict I am today.


hmm.


Damn you, VCR
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2011, 03:32:53 PM »
Teletext  -  was useful before internet

oh

well

actually


....not very!

but it was porn free.  lol
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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2011, 06:13:37 PM »
My brother had a VCR in 79 that looked like this one.  It was outrageously expensive and he only had it because someone gave it to him that owed him money and could not pay him

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Re: In the dark, dark, days before 'teh interwebz'
« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2011, 06:19:18 PM »
Books, black and white TV, pencils and paper writing, sex, party lines on phones, one phone to a house, telegrams (we actually got one once), sex, seeing a movie only once at the show, cars and houses without air conditioning or central heating, ironing clothes, sex, the first Elvis Presley 45 record, Hi-Fi (pre-stereo), board games, sex..........................
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