How did we cope before the internet?

Mint Sauce

Not picking on any forum members, but from browsing the forums I'm seeing some ask questions that a quick google search, a read of a companies guide lines from their website, or even a glance of their brousure, would sometimes give the answer.

Some questions are things alot will take for granted, and would just carry out automaticaly. some are unique, and some are just way out there, and before any of you put up any links, I'm know I have been guilty of it my self.

But the question has to be asked, how did you manage before boards, or even the internet?

padd b1975

I managed fine without it and could easily live without it now.

Not so regarding a mobile phone.

flutterflye

I honestly have no idea.
If I don't know something, I look it up online.
Even silly things like if I recognise someone in a film, and want to know where I saw them before - I'll check it online.
I can't imagine life without it!
Bit sad really, but I'm far from the only one.

Professey Chin

I got an Encarta cd rom with windows..........
Before that I have no idea

FatherLen

if someone asked us a question before the internet we would take the a guess and back it up with no facts at all and the most reasonable answer was then truth.

Biggins

irish-stew wrote: »

Not picking on any forum members, but from browsing the forums I'm seeing some ask questions that a quick google search, a read of a companies guide lines from their website, or even a glance of their brousure, would sometimes give the answer.

Some questions are things alot will take for granted, and would just carry out automaticaly. some are unique, and some are just way out there, and before any of you put up any links, I'm know I have been guilty of it my self.

But the question has to be asked, how did you manage before boards, or even the internet?

Books, library, newspapers, research by footwork/cold-calling and by actually listening to people, not just talking to them.

frozenfrozen

What would I do without the internet? Quick; go ask that internet what I would do!

Hardonraging

Jumpers for goal post's brah !!

Corkfeen

I actually find it rather sad that I don't utilise the library to the same degree as when I was a child. Now, I use it for some references for essays. :mad: I hear they even have playboy now.....

Tabnabs

I'm lost without it and have been addicted since I first heard the siren song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8XKhCfsTts

ejmaztec

FatherLen wrote: »

if someone asked us a question before the internet we would take the a guess and back it up with no facts at all and the most reasonable answer was then truth.

If anyone asked me a question before the internet, I would say to them "that's for me to know, and for you to find out". Then I would walk away.

SafeSurfer

World Books.

celticcrash

I used to enjoy going to the liberary twice a week.
Now with the internet every second fool thinks they are super intelligent. Some how these fools never picked up a book in their lives.
Google and utube fools. (google it, google it, google it,)
Smart phones are for dumb people.:D

admiralofthefleet

we knocked into our friends

Run_to_da_hills

CB radio before it became Children's band.

OldGoat

Chicken entrails were good for weather and marrage type questions but for really tough questions like "Would you shag someone who forgot to brush their teeth" we would have to resort to slaughtering the eldest goat.

mawk

aertel I guess

JohnMarston

How did we cope before the internet?

You asked your parents

frag420

Encylopedia Britannica!!

Fluorescence

Libraries and encyclopedias I guess (I once tried to check one out from the kids section of our library when I was 6 only to be told I wasn't allowed ). It would be more difficult to go back though. Remembering having instant access to all the knowledge in the world but not being able to anymore. That would be pretty soul destroying.

Tom

I just used to shout "Your Ma" and "Blast them with p!ss" at random strangers. I miss the good old days - but not the beatings.

im invisible

Back in the day you used your hand and your imagination

Tow

We used BBSes:

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Madam_X

celticcrash wrote: »

I used to enjoy going to the liberary twice a week.
Now with the internet every second fool thinks they are super intelligent. Some how these fools never picked up a book in their lives.
Google and utube fools. (google it, google it, google it,)
Smart phones are for dumb people.:D

Do you still go to the library twice a week?

Thank feck for the internet and smartphones. Managed fine without them but they make communicating and info-finding a lot better. A minor glitch is the passive-aggressive comments in relation to users of them... made via the internet, but otherwise it's all good baby. :cool:

celticcrash

Yes I still go to the library once a week.
Its just some people I meet up with put there smart phones on the table on frount of them. And during a conversation they (google it)
I want to know what a person thinks about it or how they feel about it.
Its stopping some people thinking for themselves.
If you ask them how do they feel about a certain subject.
They (google it).
If I am close with them,I can be blunt enough to tell them to stop playing with
their toy while their in somebodys company.

hooradiation

celticcrash wrote: »

Yes I still go to the library once a week.
Its just some people I meet up with put there smart phones on the table on frount of them. And during a conversation they (google it)
I want to know what a person thinks about it or how they feel about it.
Its stopping some people thinking for themselves.
If you ask them how do they feel about a certain subject.
They (google it).
If I am close with them,I can be blunt enough to tell them to stop playing with
their toy while their in somebodys company.

those rat bastards, trying to find out more about a subject before giving you a response.

monsters.

stebe

We went outside.....



And sometimes we even talked to real people :eek:

du Maurier

Biggins wrote: »

Books, library, newspapers, research by footwork/cold-calling and by actually listening to people, not just talking to them.

Shut up, you stiff!

pebbles21

I just asked the wife....apparently she knows everything!

Nothingbetter2d

irish-stew wrote: »

Not picking on any forum members, but from browsing the forums I'm seeing some ask questions that a quick google search, a read of a companies guide lines from their website, or even a glance of their brousure, would sometimes give the answer.

Some questions are things alot will take for granted, and would just carry out automaticaly. some are unique, and some are just way out there, and before any of you put up any links, I'm know I have been guilty of it my self.

But the question has to be asked, how did you manage before boards, or even the internet?

we fought wars more frequently before the net came into existance... nowadays we just troll instead.

phasers

before the internet I asked my parents everything. I tend to still ask them first then double check later. If I'm out and I think of a weird question I ring my Dad, he's a goldmine for useless facts

mikemac1

No imdb or google to find that actor you saw in a film

RTÉ had the Last Picture Show on a Friday night
Brian Reddin would introduce the film
So in the absense of google this is how you learned about actors and different films

Saw some quality films

Cutters with a very young Dennis Quad was a personal favourite, loved that film. About a cycling team

Come on RTÉ, bring this back I say!

Nothingbetter2d

phasers wrote: »

before the internet I asked my parents everything. I tend to still ask them first then double check later. If I'm out and I think of a weird question I ring my Dad, he's a goldmine for useless facts

after double checking just how many of your dad's useless facts turn out to be useless fiction?

biko

Quite well actually, it was a slower pace of life back then though.

phasers

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

after double checking just how many of your dad's useless facts turn out to be useless fiction?

About 30 percent... haven't the heart to ever correct him though

mickoneill30

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+did+we+cope+before+the+internet
:P

Bleedin hell. This thread already comes in as the first hit.

Capt'n Midnight

we've had internet since the first telegraphs - some would argue since the first semaphore stations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet

all that has changed is that the internet is available to everyone not just those in the communications industries


bit like the way printing and spectacles changed thing before them there wasn't much point in the average person learning reading and writing since there weren't that many books and it would really suck if you learnt to read and then you lost your eyesight

Teyla Emmagan

We used to learn more things, then remember them.

You used to have to be able to hold onto information, now you can just let it dribble out of your ears. Sad really.