In stress which made life more enjoyable but how different was it really in this video we will have a look back at how life was before the internet the internet has changed a lot of things in our lives and how we socialize is probably one of the biggest if we wanted
To buy something then we were going to have to get off our rear and go to the store the only exceptions to that was something like the Sears catalog or the Home Shopping Network but really this meant that we would have to socialize with at least one store clerk the same
Could be said for watching a movie if we wanted to see something a little newer than and what was on television then we had to get out this meant that we would have to socialize at the movie theater or the video store in person and face to
Face we did not have social media places like the mall were our Facebook of the time people could spend all day there and just socialize I guess you could say this was our outernet since we did not have the internet today we have all these conveniences right at our
Fingertips and if you don’t want to socialize then you do not have to when you mention the word Amazon today it makes you think about online shopping however if you would have said Amazon in the 1980s then it would have meant the mighty River funny how things have
Changed long before we had MP3 players or Spotify the radio was our main source of Music sure we could purchase albums cassettes and CDs at the store but what if we were short on money that’s when the trusty old tape recorder came into play we recorded our favorite
Songs right off of the radio in order to have a mixtape but making one of these wasn’t easy you may have to wait for hours or even days in hopes of catching your favorite songs not only that but you had to be super quick on that record
Button when the time was right our biggest Hope was that the jabber mouth DJ wouldn’t talk over the beginning or the end of the song that would definitely ruin what we were trying to do think for a second about how much dating has changed since the internet
Came along many couples today have met their significant other online whether it was from something like Tinder or AOL chat rooms but long before any of that came along you had to muster up the courage to ask someone out in person this meant that you were going to have
To hear the answer face to face which wasn’t always easy The Only Exception we had to this was that little note that you would pass in grade school do you like me yes or no rejection can be difficult and a computer screen can certainly save you some of the Embarrassment back in the Dark Ages and long before Google or Wikipedia we had to find our information from books if you were techsavvy in the ’90s then perhaps you used Encarta which was a multimedia encyclopedia but most of us grew up using the library or a set of En
Encyclopedias this meant that looking up something simple could take quite a bit of time and effort often times it would lead you to reading more information than you actually needed since it was a lot more difficult to look things up this meant that it was easier for people
To be more Gable this was especially true when it came to urban legends if you had mentioned that you were a web designer before the internet came along then you would have gotten some really strange looks that back then spiders were the only ones who designed
Webs now there are all sorts of jobs connected to the internet which did not exist before and life will never be the same something that has really changed is the ability to waste time in the office it was a lot more difficult for us to look busy before we had the
Worldwide web what did people do before they could look at cute cat pictures shop for cars homes or get on Facebook oh yeah they worked productivity may be higher in this high-tech world but it certainly is not without its share of distractions remember when social media posts were just something that you
Posted on a bulletin board before the internet this is how you got the word out whether it was at work school or church if you’ve ever been in some of the modern groups or just on social media in general then I’m sure you’ve witnessed some of the negative feedback
It’s easy to do when you’re online right but this same sort of negativity happened on our bulletin board post too someone might rip it off and throw it away scribble through it or Draw obscenities on it cell phones and the internet have brought us Mobile gaming and you really
Can’t go anywhere without seeing someone playing something but we had Mobile gaming too before the internet it really just meant getting out of the way when you were playing a game of horseshoes or jars nobody wanted to get hit with one of those and you needed to be really mobile
During the game in order to avoid injuries another difference that you may have noticed with all the cell phone usage is the lack of books magazines and newspapers or at least when you compare it to how it was much of it is going digital but there will never be anything
Quite like cracking open a book the smells sounds and physical feeling of it in your hands can really leave some lasting memories today many people are playing multiplayer games online but this used to be done in person many households hosted game nights where friends and family would come over and enjoy
Tabletop and board games these would often have lots of food drinks and socializing once the internet came along these social Gatherings seemed to decline in recent years there’s been a little bit of a Revival and we can only hope that it will continue to grow the internet has spoiled us in many
Ways we can email friends and family text them or just share special moments on social platforms like Facebook before we had any of that we had to sit down with a pen and paper and carefully construct what we wanted to say after we wrote it all out we would enclose it in
An envelope slap a stamp on it and put it in a mailbox so it could go out to who it was intended the entire process could take days and you never were quite sure if the other person received it or read it unless they responded in the
Same way sure we had the telephone but it wasn’t quite the same we enjoyed getting mail it was the only way that we could get pictures and other momentos over long distances and remember how exciting it was to receive Christmas cards in the mail and then tape them to your door or
Wall we just don’t seem to put in as much effort or thought into anything digital trolls now have a different meaning thanks to the internet before it came along trolls were just mythical creatures that were found in children stories or ugly toys people could politely disagree with one another in
Public and be perfectly fine now it seems like being anonymous online brings out the darker side of human beings some of the behavior that you see on the internet today would have been Unthinkable before it was Around the term selfie has become a regular part of our vocabulary we can all thank the cell phone which has made this much easier than it used to be we can easily snap a photo of ourselves and then review it to see if we need to take
Another one the only way that that would have ever happened before cell phones was with a Polaroid camera there was still some guessing involved and it wasn’t quite accurate most of the time selfies involved using a camera with a timer in and hoping that everyone in the
Picture had their eyes open of course we never really knew if they had their eyes open until the film was developed photo boots were really our best bet for getting a selfie they would take several shots and it would help to ensure that you had that perfect selfie but we had
No issues with asking a complete stranger to take a photo of us GPS has helped us to get where we want to go with ease but there was a time when we all thought that map quest was the greatest thing ever we could enter where we want wanted to go on the
Computer and then we had a full list of detailed directions to print out however long before any of that came along we fumbled around with a paper map we all had to learn how to read them and know our physical directions too if you did not do that then we could always count
On stopping in at our local service station for the best directions those guys could definitely get you where you needed to be of course there was nothing wrong with being lost and then figuring it out on your own those were called Adventures for many of us life before
The internet seems like a distant memory it’s almost like two different worlds there are many younger people today that never got to experience how life used to be before the internet what are some of the changes that you’ve seen and is it better or worse in your opinion let us
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