What did people do before the internet ?

Question

Before 1994 when the internet exploded

Answer 1

Read books (and looked things up in the dictionary or encyclopedia), paid attention in school....visited friends..watched TV...and did a lot of work on typewriters, long-hand..used 10 key, calculators, and the telephone....
You cannot truly miss something you have never had...so since it was not a typical thing "back then"...you made do with what you had...

Answer 2

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Receiving a one or two hang up calls each month is probably nothing to worry about, but when those calls increase in frequency and if it happens in the middle of the night then you must do something to stop it, before it starts affecting your life. With the help of this services you can take away the one advantage these people have - their anonymity.

Answer 3

Watched tv, talked, socialized with strangers, wrote letters, went to the library to research. Now we're anti-social to a degree. But gotta love the internet! lol!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Well, in my childhood which consisted of most of the 70's and the early 80's (between the ages of 8-18) we watched TV, but only at night, it wasn't allowed on during the day unless it was raining outside. We played outside for hours on end playing football in someone's yard or baseball in the street. We went to the beach a lot, we went to parks. We read a lot, too. In groups of friends we'd go to the movies or sit around and talk or go bowling. Bike riding was very popular, we'd ride all over the place, miles and miles a day. When we reached 16 our parents expected us to get jobs, which almost all of us did, working 20 hours a week during the school year and as much as possible during the summer. Oh my gosh, there was so much to do and not enough time to do it in. We were all thin and fit and so tired by the end of the day that a 9:00 bed time sometimes seemed too late.

Answer 6

Before we civilians were using the internet, the U.S. military was using the ARPAnet. Before that, there were telephones, fax machines, telegrams, radios, television, and most importantly -- books!

Answer 7

Called Miss Cleo for thier horoscope for 99 cents a minute

Answer 8

Used the yellow pages for what it is of use, and applied much more time to communicate with kins rather than strangers for what it is for fun.

Oh... I forgot. We worked much less at home and slipped all nigh every night.

We were as happy as now indeed...

Answer 9

Well after a hard day of hunting mammoths we would gather round the fire in our caves....Naw. Actually we got along remarkably well. To communicate we talked, used the telephone, fax machines and in particular wrote letters. To find information we went to the library. It actually worked. We lived happy and fulfilling lives. Honest.

Answer 10

They did a strange thing called "having a conversation."

They would go to a friends house, look them in face and move their lips. Sometimes, several people would assemble in the same place, this was called "a party."

On the occasion's when you couldn't assemble, you would use a device called, " a telephone."

And for special occasions or events that you wanted to be kept for a keepsake or you wanted to be on a more personal level, you would "write a letter or make notations on a card."

Go to the library to research things that interested you. Didn't rely on questionable sources like we do now on the Internet.

Play outside in the sun (it's that round yellow thing in the sky), I've got a street full of kids, never see any of them playing outside. They look like a bunch of albino lab rats their so white. Never see the playground being used, their to busy playing xbox and crusing the net. No wonder a lot of kids (teenagers) are so overweight. Back when I was a teenager, it was rare to see an overweight peer, now it's common, how sad.