Hard to imagine how ppl did their work without internet before...

[Anubis]

i dont really use the internet for anything productive

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Looking for a biz?

Old day: Look up via yellow page. Flip through millions of businesses and locate the 1" x 1" box that vaguely describes anything. You don't know their credibility, how they stack up against competition, their rates, etc.

Today: Google what you're looking for + your town, state = hundreds of results showing, most with user review/feedbacks, price comparison, their location on map, even their website which would provide further info.

ORLY?

 

[nobody554]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I remember when people bought porn... Now days, google whatever fucked up thing you like to look at.

"Once you jack off to Japanese girls puking in each other's mouths, you can't exactly go back to Playboy."

-Randy Marsh

QFT...I mean...wait...crap

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: sdifox
people worked better before internet

Ya, the internet has made a lot of people stupid because of how much they depend on it. Then again, the same argument could be made about electricity I suppose.

I was referring to the ease of neffing online.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Tooncesthedrivingcat

Originally posted by: TruePaige
Wanted to keep cool?

Old: Jump in a pool or sit under a tree.

New: Keep cool with solution.

That was a quality thread.

It was...it so was.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Wanna watch a movie?

Old day: Look in entertainment section of newspaper that was delivered to the door. It shows all movies and all times of all theaters in local area. Read reviews of movies in entertainment section.

Today: Google/Yahoo/whatever movie theater + your location = See all theatres within 50 mile radius and their complete show times. Pick and choose to your liking. You're out on the streets? Do the exact same on your mobile phone. Read reviews on imdb.

yeah.

seriously, OP. why would you ever call up the theater and sit through their horrendous recordings when this info has always been available in daily newspapers, and the weekly free papers?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: dNor

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Old: Switch tapes/CDs in and out of car stereo, bitch when you don't have the one you want
New: Hook computer-synched MP3 player up to the stereo, all music to go

Unfortunately I'm still in the old days on that one.

me too. I don't like mp3.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: dNor

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Old: Switch tapes/CDs in and out of car stereo, bitch when you don't have the one you want
New: Hook computer-synched MP3 player up to the stereo, all music to go

Unfortunately I'm still in the old days on that one.

me too. I don't like mp3.

..0.o

They have lossless formats you know.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Wanna watch a movie?

Old day: Look in entertainment section of newspaper that was delivered to the door. It shows all movies and all times of all theaters in local area. Read reviews of movies in entertainment section.

Today: Google/Yahoo/whatever movie theater + your location = See all theatres within 50 mile radius and their complete show times. Pick and choose to your liking. You're out on the streets? Do the exact same on your mobile phone. Read reviews on imdb.

yeah.

seriously, OP. why would you ever call up the theater and sit through their horrendous recordings when this info has always been available in daily newspapers, and the weekly free papers?

I look up movie times in the paper. Why should I run over to the computer and hunt through some website when I can pull out the paper and find the movie times in about eight seconds? And I'm not paying Verizon's asinine internet fee so I'll just call the theater if I'm out running around.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Old: Play DOS based games at work which have that hot key feature which immediately brings you to C: prompt
New: Neff on ATOT

old: dos games played great out of box on a floppy disk.
new: install game. download 2gig "patch" hope to god that allow you to actually play. get pissed game pauses every few minutes to for "drm" check

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Old: Play DOS based games at work which have that hot key feature which immediately brings you to C: prompt
New: Neff on ATOT

old: dos games played great out of box on a floppy disk.
new: install game. download 2gig "patch" hope to god that allow you to actually play. get pissed game pauses every few minutes to for "drm" check

This makes baby jesus cry because it's true.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: sdifox
people worked better before internet

Ya, the internet has made a lot of people stupid because of how much they depend on it. Then again, the same argument could be made about electricity I suppose.

I was referring to the ease of neffing online.

I know.

I was just thinking out loud which kind of made me sound like an ass. Sorry.

 

[hiromizu]

Yea..

Back in those days you actually had to work. Typing on a keyboard and looking at a blue screen is not work.

 

[venkman]

I was telling a kid about something that happened to me in the early nineties and caught myself using the phrase, "remember, this is before the internet."


<----old

 

[BoomerD]

The other device that people can't seem to get by without, is the cell phone.

For fuck sakes, they built the great pyramids without cell phones; the SF Bay Bridge, Golden Gate bridge, The Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, World Trade Towers, etc...all were built without the use of a single cell phone. Nowadays, on a construction site, every foreman and superintendent has at least 2, and has one welded to his ear at least 6 out of 8 hours on the jobsite.

Don't get me started about all the morons driving with a cell phone stuck to their ear and totally ignoring what's going on while they drive...

 

[TallBill]

Wanna make fun of OP

Old Days: Write a Letter
Now: ATOT

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Old: Folded up maps that would never re-fold.
New: Google Maps, get directions, satellite views, and even street views.

First thing I thought of. Mapquest has been around since I started driving, I find it hard to imagine manually figuring out a route via a paper map...

 

[91TTZ]

Actually things were more productive then.

Then: Do work. Find information in books
Now: Google it. Get distracted by other suggestions Google gives you. Check CNN.com, check your personal email. IM your friends. Try to get work done.


Seriously, I think businesses ran a tighter ship before the internet was popular.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Old: Folded up maps that would never re-fold.
New: Google Maps, get directions, satellite views, and even street views.

First thing I thought of. Mapquest has been around since I started driving, I find it hard to imagine manually figuring out a route via a paper map...

People were able to read maps back then, and they could find their way to/from places without a TomTom. Nowadays people don't know how to live when their internet goes down.

Originally posted by: BoomerD
The other device that people can't seem to get by without, is the cell phone.

For fuck sakes, they built the great pyramids without cell phones; the SF Bay Bridge, Golden Gate bridge, The Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, World Trade Towers, etc...all were built without the use of a single cell phone. Nowadays, on a construction site, every foreman and superintendent has at least 2, and has one welded to his ear at least 6 out of 8 hours on the jobsite.

Don't get me started about all the morons driving with a cell phone stuck to their ear and totally ignoring what's going on while they drive...

Yup.:thumbsup:

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Old: Folded up maps that would never re-fold.
New: Google Maps, get directions, satellite views, and even street views.

First thing I thought of. Mapquest has been around since I started driving, I find it hard to imagine manually figuring out a route via a paper map...

Try it. You end up learning a lot more about the local geography and find routes that make more sense than what the automaton robots algorhythm barfs out of the matrix.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Communication with the office:

Old: Send memo or internal mail
New: Spam the entire office via email with information that only a few people need. Make sure to include some inane 1000 character signature.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Dating

Old: Walk up to woman in club: "Hi there, if I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together"

New: Post ad on edating site about how you're ripped, wealthy, sensitive, disease-free, and love the outdoors.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Wanna watch a movie?

Old day: Look in entertainment section of newspaper that was delivered to the door. It shows all movies and all times of all theaters in local area. Read reviews of movies in entertainment section.

Today: Google/Yahoo/whatever movie theater + your location = See all theatres within 50 mile radius and their complete show times. Pick and choose to your liking. You're out on the streets? Do the exact same on your mobile phone. Read reviews on imdb.

yeah.

seriously, OP. why would you ever call up the theater and sit through their horrendous recordings when this info has always been available in daily newspapers, and the weekly free papers?

because the paper wasn't always handy? we didn't get a daily paper. and the weekly free paper was for last week... i remember calling them up. it was so long ago.. if the OP didn't mention it, I don't think I would have recalled it, haha

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Old: Research at the library with the help of a librarian accessing old journals, newspapers, micro-fiche and, government depositories.
New: The first, last and, only place that is researched is the intarwebs. WTF? Does no one comprehend how limited the web really is concerning anything older than ten years ago?