How Did You Spend Your Time Before the Internet?

[Orange]

As a kid or as an adult, how did you spend your time before the internet?

For me, I watched VHS tapes pretty much all day. I had quite the collection of Rugrats tapes, and to be honest I'm not sure how I didn't go on Rugrats burnout.

I also really enjoyed checking these out from the library.



Well, the VHS's, anyway.

So, yeah, most of my free time was spent in front of a large screen before a smaller one. ;D

How 'bout you?

[DSR]

Lived within walking distance of a video store. Rented a ton of VHS tapes. Most of which from the Horror section. I also read a lot of comic books.

[Deleted]

Sega and YTV

[H-Virus]

Movies, books, went outside, played with friends...

[Hit Girl]

There was no time before the internet. There was only a wilderness. Then the revolution occured.

["I'm Batman..."]

I used to take dirt and water to make mud.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

I played baseball and basketball as a kid, but other than that, I watched TV or played video games all day.

[Spearmint*]

Played Ball-In-A-Cup



Sometimes the ball wouldn't land directly in the cup, but that was okay because the ball was attached to a string which was on the cup.

[Munkie91087]

I went outside. I played a lot of sports as a kid. Read comic books, watched VHS tapes rented from Hollywood Video. I also played a lot of video games with people. Mario Kart 64 was used to settle a lot of disputes in my neighborhood.

[ritt works hard fo da chickens]

Tried to find where my dad hid his playboys.

[eDemento2099]

I played a lot of video games, read comic books, rode my bike, and when someone was willing to drive me to them, I went to the beach or indoor swimming pools.

[A Platypus Rave]

Nintendo, Super Nintendo, whatever PC games I could get my hands on

[01010010 01101001 01100011]

School (I didn't get reliable internet access until 06 or so), video games and sleep mainly.

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

There was this wondrous thing called the outside world. I'm not sure what happened to it.

[Slingshot Suplay]

- Ride bikes
- play video games and with action figures with my older brother
- Kickball, basketball, baseball with kids from school/neighborhood
- call my friends on the phone
- watch and record tv shows that I liked on vhs
- Watched wrestling shows while either playing with the figures or beating up a wrestling buddy for the foam wwf world title belt that i owned
- listened to music on my radio or on cassette tapes while drawing my own comic books
- watch the knicks games
- read lots of books, magazines, apter/pwi mags, comic books/cards, etc.
- went swimming
- go down to the comic book store or to Pathmark where they had a sports/comic card vendor and buy packs of marvel/dc/wcw/wwf cards.
- collect Captain America comic books.

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Sept 4, 2012 13:52:22 GMT -5 Spearmint* said:

Played Ball-In-A-Cup



Sometimes the ball wouldn't land directly in the cup, but that was okay because the ball was attached to a string which was on the cup.

Yes

[theryno665]

I ate grass and tried to throw rocks at the sun.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Basketball at the park by my house, Sega, recording random stuff on VHS tapes, reading comics while listening to my walkman, drawing, robbing 7-11s.

[BlackoutCreature]

What's with these threads that show up every now and then talking about a "before" the Internet? Everybody knows there was no "before" the Internet. Stop with your heresy before I report you to the proper authorities in charge of your flogging and brain washing.