Life problems before the internet

[PlanetJosh]

So I was raised in the 70's and with no internet for the public I had to deal with running around town. Like this guy recommended music by Handel. He took off before I could ask him what kind of music it was. It was outside and I didn't want to call friends or family to find out what songs Handel makes. Not sure if a library was closer than the record store so I drove to Tower Records and asked an employee who Handel is. And he pointed me to the classical section. Stupid classical music. I didn't think it was dumb classical. The guy who told me didn't look like the classical type. He looked like he was the soft rock type or something.

Anyway I bought a Handel album and it was just the same background classical stuff you hear in some movies. And the whole mess I described above didn't seem like a big deal at the time. You could say I should've called up a radio station to ask the staff what genre Handel is. No guarantee they would know though. And I wouldn't have thought to call the classical radio station because I didn't know what type of music it was. Btw in later years I grew to like some classical and I like Shubert way more than Handel.

So any other such problems from posters? It has to be from old farts though. Well if not farts then just plain old people.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

You are talking about those days in which people like Lars Ulrich copied cassette tapes of music because he 'borrowed' them from someone else instead of buying it. And when said Internet came along and was doing the same thing A-hole Lars blasted people for doing the Napster thing for which he essentially did the same thing. Someone should make a movie called Lars and the Internet: A Story of your own history, Lars!

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Sorry, tried to post something but it was to the wrong thread. My apologies.

 

[sdifox]

So I was raised in the 70's and with no internet for the public I had to deal with running around town. Like this guy recommended music by Handel. He took off before I could ask him what kind of music it was. It was outside and I didn't want to call friends or family to find out what songs Handel makes. Not sure if a library was closer than the record store so I drove to Tower Records and asked an employee who Handel is. And he pointed me to the classical section. Stupid classical music. I didn't think it was dumb classical. The guy who told me didn't look like the classical type. He looked like he was the soft rock type or something.

Anyway I bought a Handel album and it was just the same background classical stuff you hear in some movies. And the whole mess I described above didn't seem like a big deal at the time. You could say I should've called up a radio station to ask the staff what genre Handel is. No guarantee they would know though. And I wouldn't have thought to call the classical radio station because I didn't know what type of music it was. Btw in later years I grew to like some classical and I like Shubert way more than Handel.

So any other such problems from posters? It has to be from old farts though. Well if not farts then just plain old people.

You were old enough to drive and didn't know who Handel was? That is not the Internet's fault. Blame your education system.

 

[IronWing]

We used card catalogs and we liked it. Then libraries went to electronic catalogs and it took better than a decade to get back to the search capability of the card catalogs as libraries trusted lazy students to do the data entry.

 

[snoopy7548]

Finding out the local movie showtimes, you had to open up a newspaper and find them. Nowadays you just type the movie name and theater into Google.

 

[Exterous]

Finding out the local movie showtimes, you had to open up a newspaper and find them. Nowadays you just type the movie name and theater into Google.

Same thing with TV listings. And finding a replay of an episode you missed would often be the source of significant happiness given the rarity of replays for many shows

 

[Greenman]

Having to carry maps around in my van to figure out where I was going sucked. Having an attractive and willing girlfriend along for the ride made it heavenly.

 

[IronWing]

Yeah, my girlfriend knew how to read maps too. That’s why I married her.

 

[snoopy7548]

Yeah, my girlfriend knew how to read maps too. That’s why I married her.

But could she fold them?

 

[IronWing]

But could she fold them?

She knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them, knows when to walk away, knows when to run.

 

[sdifox]

She knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them, knows when to walk away, knows when to run.

Kenny Rogers was a she????

 

[IronWing]

Why do you think Ruby had to take her love to town?

 

[PlanetJosh]

Ah found an error in my logic. I said the Tower Records employee pointed out the classical section when I asked about Handel. So I guess I could've called that Tower Records before driving over there.

 

[sdifox]

Ah found an error in my logic. I said the Tower Records employee pointed out the classical section when I asked about Handel. So I guess I could've called that Tower Records before driving over there.

Too late. They went belly up.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Why do you think Ruby had to take her love to town?

Were you cheating on her with Lucille?

 

[Stopsignhank]

We were just talking last week about how we had to watch Headline News to see the ticker down at the bottom of the screen to see the score of the football games. Either that or wait for 4:00 for Primetime on ESPN.

 

[sdifox]

We were just talking last week about how we had to watch Headline News to see the ticker down at the bottom of the screen to see the score of the football games. Either that or wait for 4:00 for Primetime on ESPN.

Whuaa? Ever heard of radios?

 

[sdifox]

Finding out the local movie showtimes, you had to open up a newspaper and find them. Nowadays you just type the movie name and theater into Google.

LoL I remember back in Taiwan going to the theatre before hand and picking out the seat. They had a pegboard corresponding to the seats and the actual tickets were rolled up and inserted in the pegholes.

The movie billboard were hand painted.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Following the Hastings Cutoff route through the CA mountains in 1847. Shouldn't have followed that George Donner fella.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

LoL I remember back in Taiwan going to the theatre before hand and picking out the seat. They had a pegboard corresponding to the seats and the actual tickets were rolled up and inserted in the pegholes.

The movie billboard were hand painted.

I remember my old neighbor theater. It was cool going there during the week for a matinee as almost no one else was there to distract/annoy you. That kind of pre-Internet lifestyle got me to build a home theater and stop going out to see movies.

 

[renz20003]

Definitely shopping for porn. I prefer more “exotic” pornography. I don’t miss the stares from the clerk when I would get a VHS of midgets going at it.

 

[pmv]

Looking for obscure bits of music - had to check out second-hand record/cd shops (sometimes in foriegn countries while on holiday).

Oh, and discovering how much I disagree with all sorts of people about all sorts of topics.

 

[snoopy7548]

Getting cheat codes to videogames was tough. You either had to rely on your older brother or your friends from school, who would make shit up like a Mortal Kombat nude code.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

We used card catalogs and we liked it. Then libraries went to electronic catalogs and it took better than a decade to get back to the search capability of the card catalogs as libraries trusted lazy students to do the data entry.

Grumpy old man FTW.