What did people do b4 internet (and bbs)?

[JEDI]

while i was in elementary school, my parents bought me a commodore 64 w/a 300 baud modem.

i connected to BBS's and it was cool.

then i discovered Compuserve.

Then i was at 1200 baud, then 2400 baud.

then i had a PC. 28k, then 56k. and that's all she wrote.

What did people do b4 the internet/bbs? how did they pass the time? TV???

 

[Zim Hosein]

Topic Title: What did people do b4 internet (and bbs)?

Play DOS games!

 

[AdamSnow]

Went outside?

 

[ColdFusion718]

I actually went outside and played sports and hung out with my neighbors, now I live in the ghetto so it doesn't matter.

 

[klah]

D&D + d100!!! OMG

That's right bitches, dONEHUNDRED!!!

 

[chuckywang]

jerked off to magazines

 

[klah]

d100: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars...553.WKU.&OS=PN/D303,553&RS=PN/D303,553

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
I actually went outside and played sports and hung out with my neighbors, now I live in the ghetto so it doesn't matter.

yea your machine clearly shows how poor you are :roll:

 

[phreakah]

descent 2 of course

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: goku2100

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
I actually went outside and played sports and hung out with my neighbors, now I live in the ghetto so it doesn't matter.

yea your machine clearly shows how poor you are :roll:

To be honest, you're assuming a lot from ColdFusion718's rig IMO; people who live in the projects here in NYC drive better cars and wear more expensive stuff that I do, doesn't mean the $ is from a legal source!

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: klah
D&D + d100!!! OMG

That's right bitches, dONEHUNDRED!!!

Sad thing is we still do that these days...where are my digital dice?

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
jerked off to magazines

:thumbsup:

 

[episodic]

I was in the local library reading commodore 64 programming manuals and writing programs on notebook paper (a year before I actually had the computer). . ..


Ahh the days of sitting around imagining how neat this array I came up with would be or wondering how my sprite would look when I animated it.

 

[alien42]

they drew on cave walls and made fires

 

[yourdeardaniel]

oregon trail on APPLE IIe = hot

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: episodic
I was in the local library reading commodore 64 programming manuals and writing programs on notebook paper (a year before I actually had the computer). . ..


Ahh the days of sitting around imagining how neat this array I came up with would be or wondering how my sprite would look when I animated it.

that's pretty cool. did you go into computers for a living eventually?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: yourdeardaniel
oregon trail on APPLE IIe = hot

! YES!

 

[iamtrout]

Topic Title: What did people do b4 internet (and bbs)?

Led social lives.

 

[KarenMarie]

i drank a lot more
i went out a lot more
i ....nevermind.

 

[SilentZero]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Topic Title: What did people do b4 internet (and bbs)?

Play DOS games!

Hell yeah! 20 disks per game rocked!

 

[imthebadguy]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Went outside?

 

[SithSolo1]

Duck Hunt and Super Mario

 

[bleeb]

There was a little thing called hanging out with people, interaction, reading books, socializing... go outside.

 

[BW86]

played Load Runner

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: episodic
I was in the local library reading commodore 64 programming manuals and writing programs on notebook paper (a year before I actually had the computer). . ..


Ahh the days of sitting around imagining how neat this array I came up with would be or wondering how my sprite would look when I animated it.

that's pretty cool. did you go into computers for a living eventually?

I did - and realized that it became a pain. I left it for a teaching job (I teach the Microsoft Office Suite at all levels), and I do photo restoration on the side. . .