Life of young people before the internet
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No "social media" you had to get out and/or have long phone calls.
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Reply 1
I remember life before the internet and can confirm it was a much better time to be alive.
I wouldn't say the internet is entirely to blame but it's certainly a factor. Cars were much better in those days, none of them were electric for a start. Petrol was much cheaper and you could buy an older banger for £200.
Admittedly I don't miss going to the phone box with a load of 10p coins but it's something I'd be more than happy to do to go back to those days.
I wouldn't say the internet is entirely to blame but it's certainly a factor. Cars were much better in those days, none of them were electric for a start. Petrol was much cheaper and you could buy an older banger for £200.
Admittedly I don't miss going to the phone box with a load of 10p coins but it's something I'd be more than happy to do to go back to those days.
Reply 2
NJA
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Youtuber / Instagramer before these things.
Not a mobile phone in sight.
World Shut Your Mouth - Episode 1
. . . . but he moved with the times .. . ff to 9:30
Not a mobile phone in sight.
World Shut Your Mouth - Episode 1
. . . . but he moved with the times .. . ff to 9:30
Reply 3
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by Mr ADBI remember life before the internet and can confirm it was a much better time to be alive.
I wouldn't say the internet is entirely to blame but it's certainly a factor. Cars were much better in those days, none of them were electric for a start. Petrol was much cheaper and you could buy an older banger for £200.
Admittedly I don't miss going to the phone box with a load of 10p coins but it's something I'd be more than happy to do to go back to those days.
I wouldn't say the internet is entirely to blame but it's certainly a factor. Cars were much better in those days, none of them were electric for a start. Petrol was much cheaper and you could buy an older banger for £200.
Admittedly I don't miss going to the phone box with a load of 10p coins but it's something I'd be more than happy to do to go back to those days.
I don't really remember life before the Internet as such, but during my teenage years, social media was a lot less of a thing. The main platform was MySpace & later Facebook started to become more popular. At the time I think we saw it as a useful tool to keep in touch with friends- we didn't live our lives through it & seemed to have a lot more real life connections. I'm not sure I'd cope well mentally as a teen in the current era.
Reply 4
I was born in 81. Facebook came in 2004 Twitter 2007. Had a lot of good memories plus bad adolescent ones pre social media but life was definitely more social and interesting. You had to phone friends too and have more face to face dealings. I don't know if people still arrange football games drinks etc as teenagers but we did.
Reply 5
NJA
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Office Christmas party 1970 .. . perhaps see how your grand-parents behaved
Reply 6
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by NJANo "social media" you had to get out and/or have long phone calls.
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Seems cool but no because Ireland in the 90s wasn't like it is now 🤣🤣🤣
Reply 7
Ah, yes, driving around in the good old days when road fatalities were 300% - 400% what they are today.
Reply 8
I can't imagine life without internet I'm 23
Reply 9
I grew up without a landline telephone, much less a mobile. My UCAS application was on paper and I got my first email address when I was 18. Prior to that, at my college there was a single desktop PC connected to the internet which was shared by over a thousand pupils.
A spectacularly boring time to be alive unless you really enjoyed playing minesweeper.
A spectacularly boring time to be alive unless you really enjoyed playing minesweeper.
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by Admit-OneI grew up without a landline telephone, much less a mobile. My UCAS application was on paper and I got my first email address when I was 18. Prior to that, at my college there was a single desktop PC connected to the internet which was shared by over a thousand pupils.
A spectacularly boring time to be alive unless you really enjoyed playing minesweeper.
A spectacularly boring time to be alive unless you really enjoyed playing minesweeper.
Not boring if you loved music I can assure you. And films and TV drama
Reply 11
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by NJANo "social media" you had to get out and/or have long phone calls.
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Cars weren't essential - there were much better bus services then.
People actually talked to each other rather than spending time doom-scrolling ... plenty of fun to be had.
Reply 12
NJA
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by Admit-OneI grew up without a landline telephone, much less a mobile. My UCAS application was on paper and I got my first email address when I was 18. Prior to that, at my college there was a single desktop PC connected to the internet which was shared by over a thousand pupils.
A spectacularly boring time to be alive unless you really enjoyed playing minesweeper.
A spectacularly boring time to be alive unless you really enjoyed playing minesweeper.
Young people's creative juices were spent on other things, such as music, Am Dram, dance & fashion .... lots of bands, discos, dressing up! If you wanted to get your point across you had to produce and distribute leaflets, meet people face-to-face and use community noticeboards.
Sport and supporting it seemed to be bigger.
Having said all that I now prefer having the internet, more avenues of creativity & learning.
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by NJANo "social media" you had to get out and/or have long phone calls.
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
Cars were pretty essential.
This documentary is from shortly before everything changed.
Would you want to have been born 30 years earlier?
I have been born fourty years ago and thus grown up without internet and mobile phones till my teenage years. It was not so bad at all, on the contrary.
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by Mr ADBI remember life before the internet and can confirm it was a much better time to be alive.
I wouldn't say the internet is entirely to blame but it's certainly a factor. Cars were much better in those days, none of them were electric for a start. Petrol was much cheaper and you could buy an older banger for £200.
Admittedly I don't miss going to the phone box with a load of 10p coins but it's something I'd be more than happy to do to go back to those days.
I wouldn't say the internet is entirely to blame but it's certainly a factor. Cars were much better in those days, none of them were electric for a start. Petrol was much cheaper and you could buy an older banger for £200.
Admittedly I don't miss going to the phone box with a load of 10p coins but it's something I'd be more than happy to do to go back to those days.
I agree.
As much as i like the internet. And it is useful. I loved them days.
I didn't really use phone boxes. But we went out and played outside a lot. No sitting in front of a computer. Out on bikes etc.
No electric cars either.
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by Muttley79Cars weren't essential - there were much better bus services then.
People actually talked to each other rather than spending time doom-scrolling ... plenty of fun to be had.
People actually talked to each other rather than spending time doom-scrolling ... plenty of fun to be had.
I agree about the bus services.
Even round my mum and dads estate, the main road of their estate was a bus route.
It isnt any more (and hasnt been for quite a while).
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