Life before social media and smartphones, what was it like?

>>61364787
There was just no social media and smartphones back then.

What the fuck did you even expect?

The same as it is now, AFTER social media.

>Still using FB, etc. shiggy

>>61364787
Better.

>>61364816
/thread

>>61364787

Like early-to-mid 2000's?

I would say it was a good balance of everyone having instant communication (cellphone and text) but not to the point where it consumed a majority of your day.

Internet was also way better. A lot more original content, and groups were separated into different niche websites. Everyone used an online handle, nickname, fake name whatever you want to call it and things were way less personal.

>carry piece of paper in wallet
>write down EVERYTHING on his paper
>friends phone numbers
>calling card numbers
>job references
>directions to random shit

>list gets used so much that a new one must be made every 6 months or so

>>61364787
less superficial

I used to carry a nokia and a palm pilot. Pretty good combo served me well between 2000 and 2010. I grew up before internet or even personal computers. Life was good we read more magazines, talked on the phone, used to meet up and hang out.

Purer.

>>61364787
More fun since y'all are retarded.

Then.
>dream of a connected future techno paradise where everyone has access to knowledge

Now
>everyone has the ability to communicate with anyone at any time and has sum total of human knowledge in pocket
>use it to spy on everyone and shitpost on the internet

>>61364906
This is the correct answer. Social media as we know it today are cancer. I wish we never had them. Todays high speed Internet without social everything would be nice.

>>61364787
What's it like to have a smartphone and social media?

>>61364787
Like a shit.

>>61365523
>used to meet up and hang out.
I think kids still do this; you're just old.

>>61364787
Not being bothered constantly, not seeing hundreds of thousands of selfies and worthless options every year.

>>61364906
that time was the sweet spot of the internet.

>>61364787
Women actually socialized with men instead of traveling around with their girlfriends looking for cool instagram photo opportunities.

You had to memorize the phone numbers of people you gave enough of a shit about to want to call. When you went out, nobody would know where you were unless you told them and they couldn't get in touch with you unless they went to find you in person or waited for you to call them back from your home phone.

The internet was the wild west. Corporate presence was minimal to nonexistent, there was almost no advertising, and nothing was centralized. The concept of vlogging didn't exist, nobody posted dozens and dozens of pictures of themselves doing mundane shit, and if you wanted to talk to other people you had to find message boards (which were almost always confined to a narrow range of topics and had small communities) or use chatrooms. Nobody used their real name for anything, ever. The very idea of a website like Facebook where everyone has their real first/last name, city of residence, workplace, etc. listed for whoever to see would make heads explode.

>>61366986
socializing being reduced to nothing but girls trying to find cute photo opportunities for their instagram is incredibly annoying

it's like going to a concert and then watching it through your phone while recording, it destroys the immediacy of the experience

>>61364787
Going outside to park to play basketball or bike outside in park.

Going to library to rent books/movies/use computers.

Buying VHS/DVD videos and renting from Blockbuster stores.

Hmmm landlines.

Families would eat dinner together at dinner tables.

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>>61367146
>it's like going to a concert and then watching it through your phone while recording, it destroys the immediacy of the experience

Yeah, that's pretty strange. Instead of experiencing the moment people like to capture it just so they can either post it or forget it forever. What I also find pretty strange is that people meet but then look at their phones all the time

>"reddit is a circlejerk"
>this thread
Really gets the neurotransmitters going.

>>61366341
>I think
Look around your neighborhood during daylight hours and tell me how many kids you see playing in the streets.

Protip: You can't.

>>61367219
I live in a neighborhood that's walking distance from three different schools. Right now it's summer vacation. Yesterday after I got off work I walked down the street to get the mail. I was the only person outside. It was dead silent. Shit's weird.

>>61367174
God I really miss no smartphones.

>>61364787
I was printing out cheat codes

I still live in the early 2000s mentally.

>No socials
>no apps
>only browse off a desktop
>write shit down on pieces of paper
>never take any pictures

Having said that, it's quite lonely.
I miss the actual years.
Turns out the 3rd millennium sucks

>>61367237
I think it's great. I was an indoor person as a kid because kids were outside. Now that kids are inside I'm actually enjoying my time outside.

Kids should just be locked into little cells until they're adults.

>>61364787
Playing Dota and Counter-Strike with my friends.

>>61364787
I like how no one bothered to inquire about OP's picture. When did /g/ become infested with literal faggots.

>>61367277
It's ass. Since I was 11 I've seen literally hundreds of thousands of asses, and you expect us to get all riled up and pubescent over this one?
Are you 12?

>>61367277
It's a very sad and melancholic picture anon.
It reminds me of my lost youth, of hopes that never came true.
Of that warm summer dusk when you felt like you had all your life in front of you, and the girl at your side was all that it mattered.
And it's a thread about old times, so most people posting could likely be their fathers.

>>61367297
Proving my point.

>>61367298
Someone needs to get laid.

A fuckload better than this. You could actually talk to people. You could have a conversation with girls instead of today when all they do is stare at their phones. Getting a postcard from someone on holidays felt infinitely better than a Facebook update.

>>61367310
I'm 12, the post

>>61367312
Postcards were great, I loved getting them and I loved sending them during those rare times when I got to go on vacation.

>>61367320
I'm gay, the post.

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Playing Trackmania with friends over MSN.
Websites were infinitely more varied, forums everywhere, usernames, no e-celeb whores.
Cellphones were way cooler, everyone had a different one.

>>61367310
So you are twelve. You're literally derailing a thread about life before smartphones because you can't contain your puberty.

>>61367340
>typing all this meaningless shit when you could've just said "nice ass"
wew lad

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I'm now officially sad

>>61364816
found someone who wasn't conscious until the 2000s
>>61364787
meme culture obviously not mainstream, people were less insecure, weren't redpilled, more active, productive, conversational, better memory, higher rates of literacy, not as inflated sense of self/purpose..and uh, yep.

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Social media would still be good if it had no photos (ie, no memes)

>>61364787
It was black and white. I've heard they didn't invent colors yet.

>>61364787

As far as social media, hard to say. I'm a privacy advocate which means when I post on the web, I do so anonymously. Nothing I do traces back to me personally (and you can do this with almost anything if you know what you're doing). I was pretty much mostly alone before social media and not much has changed.

Now smart phones and (more importantly) tablets have changed EVERYTHING. It's fucking insane all I can do on a small 10in device thinner than most of my books, even with the case covering it. Unlimited manga, books, magazines, movies/tv shows, and pretty much 90% of what I do on my desktop.

See kids, there was this thing we used to experience called "boredom". It's where you literally have nothing to do and enjoy. You just exist and wait for time to move on in the hopes of something interesting eventually happening. That time is long gone.

>>61364787
I used to get directions off of mapquest and print them out on paper to take into my car when I didn't know how to get somewhere. My parents thought it was crazy you could get directions like that, they wanted to do everything on maps you'd pick up at a gas station.

You could only tell when movies were on by either going to the theater, or opening a local newspaper and going to the page with the movie times on it.

>>61367359
Once upon a time it was like that, we called it Livejournal/Blogspot/Xanga. Myspace was what ushered in the era of spamming photos.

>>61364787

it was better and less autistic.

>opening a local newspaper and going to the page with the movie times on it.
Yes, and watching trailer on tv was exciting, and then talking f2f with your friends about what to watch and when to go to the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqu1Erh5veU

>people unironically believing 10-15 years ago was good.

>>61367401
>wait for time to move on in the hopes of something interesting eventually happening

Or you'd phone your best friends on your family's house phone, that was attached to a base by a cord that then plugged into the wall, and was especially cool if you could get more than one other person on at once, but that was only available if you paid for it, and you'd bike to go meet up with them somewhere and be bored/spend your allowance together.

>What was life like before 4chan?

>>61367448
>10-15 years ago was good.
It was better for sure.
And the 90s were even better.

>>61367468
>it was better
yeah, nah.

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- you had to write shit down

- when meeting up with a friend you had agree on a place and time.

- you didn't had your mind going in 8 different directions due to internet addiction.

- Seeing nudity was special compared to the desensitization of today with the abundance of interent porn.

>>61367448

it was a simpler time to be alive anon.

>>61364787
Shitty.
>>61364906
>early to mid 2000s
>in fact both social media and smartphones were popular for 5+ years

>>61364787
Much, much, MUCH less convenient but I seemed to have a lot more free time.
Having to go to a goddamned library whenever you wanted to know something was a real bitch. So glad we can just Google things now.

>>61367482
>yeah, nah.
name some stuff that's better now that is not autistic useless shit like computards or iphones or stuff like that.

Or marginal increments over existing stuff.

>going to the library looking for the right book cuz you wanted to settle a bet or needed a recipe, an instruction etc.
>going to a record store and relaxing while listening to LPs or CDs
>listening to radio, making mixtapes with your favorites
>figure shit out by yourself or being taught by others, instead of being spoonfed with tutorials and wiki hows
>driving with someone in the passengers seat reading the map
>spending entire summers outside
>playing vidya on the couch with friends instead of online
>watching TV with the entire family in the living room vs everyone sits by themselves with their phones
>no political correctness, slower pace of daily life, no pressure through social media

>>61367448
It was better socially (local) where you didn't alienate people around you.

Now you have social media, where local people are alienated, people who use social media feel alienated, people who they consider friends (online) are alienated, etc.

>>61364787

Well for starters if you wanted to see pics like that you had to actually find girls willing to do it.

The good part was you got to Fuck them.

it was a dystopia where you couldn't add random bitches on snapchat, and browse their noods when ever you get bored

>>61367512
take me back!

>>61364787

More interpersonal communicating.

Had to go over to the person's house to see if they wanted to hang out or come over to your house to play NES.

None of this "you have an 30 minutes to respond to any email we send you, no matter the time" bullshit businesses do now.

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>>61367512

THIS,
I miss that shit.

>>61367507

and also this,
I have the world's knowledge at the palm of my hand and yet I feel like I have less time to do stuff.

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>ITT: People who have become old and blame it on the times that supposedly have changed.

It obviously isn't that easy to talk to girls anymore, because you aren't 16 but 30.
And you don't hang out with your friends that often anymore, not because of social media, but simply because they moved on with your life, while you still shitpost on 4chan.

Your youth is gone.
Deal with it or cry about it. Your choice.

>>61367507
>Having to go to a goddamned library whenever you wanted to know something was a real bitch. So glad we can just Google things now.

Remember when people owned multi-book encyclopedia collections?

>>61367540
negative nancy

>make plans to meet up with someone in a public place
>you show up first
>if the other person is late, you have two choices: wait longer or give up and go home
>calling one another is not really an option unless both of you just so happen to be near a payphone

>at home, 6 AM
>downloading a single song
>go to school
>come back at 5 PM
>song 75% downloaded

>watching porno
>a single image takes about two full minutes to load
>and that is IF they don't fail before finishing
it was a lot of that type of shit.
good riddens.

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>>61367544

remember CD's Encyclopedias?

>>61367508
As opposed to the literal wasteland that was a decade ago? Fuck off, it was boring as fuck back then.

Real and not shallow like today.

>>61367583
>real
the delusion is real alright.

>>61367554
>make plans to meet up with someone in a public place
And now that you can know instantly where anyone is at all times you can't think of many reasons to even meet all of a sudden, except to go through the usual social cliques of eating out, and drinking maybe. Very little to tell to one another except either trying to fill the silence or reminisce about OP times.

>downloading a single song
Now you have all the digital music of the world at your fingertips, but modern music is garbage, and nothing beats the satisfaction of inserting a cd or cassette into the player and hitting play

>watching porno
Now you can spend your nights watching all kinds of fucked up porn to your heart desire, but that fucked you up and desensitized you so much so you have trouble in the bedroom.
Also, you might be gay.

you didn't have to worry about your life being ruined after calling someone a fag on the internet because your name and/or wealth of personal information wasn't stapled to your comments.

>>61367581
>the literal wasteland that was a decade ago
I think we have different POVs because I'm not an austistic neckbeard and actually enjoyed real life and actual social interactions and activities.

While yes, for someone autistic the currentyear is better because he can spend his neet days 24/7 keeping busy on the internet.

SPOILERS: nothing of it is real. It's all pixels and bits and sh1t. You're still alone.

>>61367567

I still have my old Encarta 98 disc. If I still had a CD player on my computer I'd play some mindmaze.

>>61367599
it's as if being accountable for your words is important or something

>>61367567
Yeah, I had Encarta and it's actually how I first got into blues music.

>>61367401

Boredom or tranquility as some may call it was not really much of a problem compared to the thunderstorm of crappy messages,alerts,ads,notifications,tweets which are shat all over your brain 24/7 nowadays. Constant sensory overload causes all kinds of problems....

>>61367613
>my old Encarta 98
me too, somewhere I think. And AOE too

>>61367611
>still alone
uh, I have a girlfriend bud

>Digging through old things, find all these handwritten notes I got from friends and girls during class that I kept

Shit like that still gives me feels, no one exactly scrolls through their text message archives. To this day I have no idea what I did when I didn't have a smart phone. Now it's become my security blanket when I get into an awkward situation or don't quite know how to interact with someone.

>>61367618

It's really not. It's just important to not give a fuck what others think of your words. Everyone is so hyper sensitive now. Used to be you'd call someone a faggot and they'd call you a cocksucker and you'd both go on your way. People forgot how to not give a fuck.

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>>61367633
>a girlfriend
both 2d waifus and trap aren't girls anon.
Let alone realdolls

>>61367596

you're right about the porn part,
I don't fap to anything vanilla these days,
the girl has to have at least 1 anal scene or I don't bother with it.

>>61367641
>Don't blame the bully, blame the victim mentality
yeah, i'm glad people are being held accountable for their words.

Early 2000s I had a Friendster a Xanga and a bunch of other stuff I signed up for that probably no longer exist. Communicated through AIM, had a Nokia, Walked around with a CD player, had a digital camera. All that is in my pocket now.

Though sharing wasn't really a thing and opinions where kept to oneself. I so I wasn't bombarded with dank memes and political opinions told with as single image 24/7.

>>61367596
>but modern music is garbage, and nothing beats the satisfaction of inserting a cd or cassette into the player and hitting play
nonononono, get the fuck out of here with that nostalgic shit

>>61367661
get the fuck out

>>61367641
>Used to be you'd call someone a faggot and they'd call you a cocksucker and you'd both go on your way.
Bitch that still happens today, every day.

>>61367618
>>61367661

cuck.

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>>61367661
>yeah, i'm glad people are being held accountable for their words.
You do know internet bullying is at an all time high right?

On the other hand you can't actually express opinions anymore, because that might get you fired, or doxed, or beaten up.
Simply because they don't fit in the #currentyear, no matter how **polite** you try to be.

>>61367661

That's probably because you're weak and unworthy of passing on your genetics. In the olden days you would have been eaten by a wild hamster or something before you had the chance to poison our genetic makeup. Sadly now people like you can use the internet to find another unaborted disaster.

>>61367678
>On the other hand you can't actually express opinions anymore
Dissenting opinions have been met with opposition for ages. For better or worse it doesn't result in death anymore, in most places.

>>61367593
Facebook is a good definition of social interaction and real life, repeat it with me good goy

>>61367666
>get the fuck out of here with that nostalgic shit
underage or terrible taste?
Even so called "pop" music, being already shit in the early 2000s, has gone downhill.

The rest of the genres, meaning electronic or rock don't even exist anymore.

>>61367692
What if I told you every social interaction today doesn't happen over facebook.

>>61367554
>watching porno
>Go to Spice Channel and watch a scrambled signal hoping to see tits
>Stay up late for GGW Infomercials

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>>61367689
>Dissenting opinions have been met with opposition for ages. For better or worse it doesn't result in death anymore

Are you b8ing son?

>>61364787
Less in your pocket, more in your brain (not proportionally).
Better human interaction in general.
Memes/ideas spreading more slowly.
Less faggots misunderstanding what "freedom" means.
Healthier relationships (mostly due to more in-person communication).

...can't think of more but you get the idea,
other than that more or less the same.

19 here, on track to become the stereotypical shut-in virgin just because I refused to stoop to the trends I'm always surrounded by. This isn't fair and I still can't understand how anyone with half a brain can enjoy this social current, it's ridiculous

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>>61367709

>>61367716
Adapt or die faggot.

Addictive online gaming and facebook ruined the internet.

>>61367694
pop music has always been shitty.

always. stop romanticizing it.

>>61367752
It's like you're not even reading ese.

>pop music has always been shitty.
>so called "pop" music, being already shit in the early 2000s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bRdjmm_-5g

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>>61364787
It had basic on the memory.

Depends on your definition of social media, because in the early 00s there was ICQ, IRC, live journal, proper forums etc.

For me it was way better back then, hanging out with a healthy mix of guy and girl nerds in our little clique. Now my online communities are sausage fests and i actually don't know where the girls have gone, Facebook or tumblr i guess.

>>61364906

>consumed the majority of your day
No one is forcing you to use it all day long.

>>61367776
Kiss me by Sixpence none the richer <3

>>61364787

who are these cum connoiseurs?

>>61365523

So... everything you can and do now.

>>61367778
HUE/10

>>61367611
>for someone autistic the currentyear is better because he can spend his neet days 24/7 keeping busy on the internet.

But its shit now, all the disgusting normies are online 24/7 on their phones.

>>61367243

No one is forcing you to use them.

>>61367312
>>61367329

Postcards still exist and you can still send them.
Idiots.

>>61367359

>only i am allowed to have epic memes on 4chan

>>61367752

70s and 80s popular music was pretty good.

Who doesn’t fucking love ABBA?

>>61367818
>No one is forcing you to use them.
You need smartphones and socials if you want to have a "normal" social life.

Hell even your mom/brother expects you to respond to their idiotic texts ASAP 24/7 now

You sound as vile&obnoxious as the people say "if u dont like X why dontcha move to the woods and live off the land lmao" with X being anything about post-modernity that's problematic.

>>61367818
Not that Anon, but it's not about using them yourself - it's about the fact that you can't make anyone stop using theirs for one second.

>>61364787
Different.

>>61367483

It was only simpler because you were younger, idiot, and your parents took care of everything. It has nothing to do with the "times".

>>61367841
>you can't make anyone stop using theirs for one second.
This is true also.
Even your SO, unless you are directly engaged in immediate physical activity won't stop for a second.

I had less reason to stay home.

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Here's what I recall:
>no "apps"
>programs and applications were called programs and applications
>almost no normies on the internet other than on Yahoo, MSN or AOL
>it was considered dangerous to have your real name and photo online
>no shadow banning (if you were banned from posting comments somewhere, you'd know unlike today)
>no bloated Javascript cancer littering webpages (it was mostly just basic HTML and CSS for the most part)
>wacky electronics designs like pic related
>people with slow connections complaining about large files
>Flash was slow as fuck and annoying, but everyone used it for animations and later full motion video
>online video was 240p (360p and 480p were considered high quality)
>numbered pages instead of autoscroll cancer
>no page loading screens with spinning throbbers

>>61367840

You can have a normal social life without them. You're an idiot if you think otherwise. You can message your friends on a computer or call them from a "dumbphone".

>Hell even your mom/brother expects you to respond to their idiotic texts ASAP 24/7 now
They expected you to do the same before. They were worried sick if you didn't answer your "dumphone" back then or even worse when you didn't come home at the appropriate time. Just because you have no proper relationship with your mother doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

>>61367841

Then you have shitty friends or you're a shitty person if your friends prefer spending time on their phone instead of you.

What does this have to do with technology?

>>61367818
With all due respect in this stupid fucking country I can barely even function without a smartphone. no seriously I cannot order online with my credit card from about 80% of online stores. So if I drop my smartphone well it's only chinkshit for me-

>>61367865
>autoscroll
Fuck I meant infinite scroll

>>61367872

It's idiots romanticising the past and thinking it's the technology's fault for their current state and not themselves and the fact that they're older.

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>>61367840
>X being anything about post-modernity that's problematic.

All of them?

>>61367882
Wrong most of the thread seems to be annoyed that they cannot get a break from technology. Call somebody over or go out and they dick around with their smartphones etc what the hell is the point might as well just jump on my bike and randomly cycle around by myself.

>>61367868
Are you the poster that's been shitting up the entire thread going "debunking" every single thing not in line with your currentyearphilia?

>You can have a normal social life without them.
No you cannot.
>You're an idiot if you think otherwise
Wow compelling.
>You can message your friends on a computer
You mean on a social network
> or call them from a "dumbphone".
Nobody calls nobody anymore. Normies talk via facebook and decide stuff via fb or IM groups.
You calling them would be the equivalent of the weird creepy uncle calling you for Xmas.
Do you even have irl friends anon?

>They expected you to do the same before.
No they did not.
>They were worried sick if you didn't answer your "dumphone" back then
No. Now you're just retelling your 10yo self situation. Nobody ever expected an ADULT to be avaliable 24/7 especially via text, like today.

Fanboy/Tribalism was less of a thing outside of sports. Now kids are born holding Apple products.

>>61367865
>it was considered dangerous to have your real name and photo online

What changed? This always puzzles me, its as if everyone suddenly stopped caring about actual privacy and became a narcisistic attention whore with the advent of social media. I feel like I’m on some alien planet.

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>>61364787
I had a gf.

>>61367913
>Nobody calls nobody anymore. Normies talk via facebook and decide stuff via fb or IM groups.
>You calling them would be the equivalent of the weird creepy uncle calling you for Xmas.
>Do you even have irl friends anon?

This is wrong though calling somebody now and then still happens just don't call every damn day like some annoying mug.

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>>61367933
>What changed?
Faceberg gave the internet an aura of respectability

>>61367868
>Then you have shitty friends
You think. But it's not that.

Better friends do it less, but they all do it.
They do prefer to spend their time with me, it's just that once they look into the screen "for just one second", be it smartphone or facebook or whatever, they're completely absent.
All their attention is 100% consumed by that thingy.

Sure, they'll look away 30 seconds later, but during these 30 seconds they're completely and truly gone.
You can talk and they'll pretend to have listened, with, at best, only a faint clue of what you talked about

Yeah, they are still ""with"" you. But once they look something up (usually getting a text from someone is all they need) and you don't have your own phone to fiddle with meanwhile, you're fucked for ~30 seconds.
And believe me, it's incredibly disruptive when it comes to human relations.

You can disagree if you want, but that's my experience.

>>61367836
But that's the thing, only the best of the best music from the past gets remembered, stands the test of time.

ABBA is one of the best, most iconic bands of the 80s. That would be like bringing up Michael Jackson or Nirvana for your case that music in the past was better. Those are some of the most legendary names in music obviously.

My case still stands; pop music has always been shit save for a few outliers who will likely be remembered forever.

>>61367906
Either you're uninteresting or you need better friends. My money's on the former.

>>61367913

Everything you say is some subjective opinion and related to your interpretation of things. According to you, no one must enjoy progress because you're not able to handle it.

>using the term "normies" unironically

There's no help for you. Enjoy your little hug-box bubble of sour-grape syndrome and other typical r9k and circlejerk related things.

>>61367933

It was only considered dangerous back then. Then people realized nothing happens.
No one is forcing you to post pictures of yourself today. You can avoid most of the privacy invasion by not being an idiot and using certain privacy infringing services.

>>61364787
Man this thread is so full of nostalgia. Your glasses are hella rose-tinted.

>You were outside playing all the time, talked to your friends irl, etc etc.
Nothings stopping you. You're just sad and lonely now.

>Normalfags are posting on insta and snap all day
Before they were just as vapid. You wouldn't like them and they wouldn't like you. You'd still be a social outcast.

>>61367277
>When did /g/ become infested with literal faggots.
At the precise moment you arrived.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

>>61367951

Then tell them that it bothers you.

>let's just blame technology because I can't communicate with my friends

Hint, if they are more concerned about their texts and phone, it means they don't respect you and value you less.
You just replaced boring parts of conversations which before involved looking around and ultra-meaningless smalltalk with looking at your phone. If they look at their phones while you're having a meaningful discussion, then they're just horrible friends. Simple as that.

>>61367954
Fuck these niggers they call me over to watch footie instead of watching the game they dick around with their fucking phones 90% of the time.

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>>61367952
>Nirvana
>good

MJ, while having good music will be remembered as that black guy that turned into a white wax figure.

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>>61367957
>Everything you say is some subjective opinion and related to your interpretation of things.
It's not though. Even your debunking was pitiful.
Just say hey I love socials and smartphones and 2017 "socialization".
But stop being a faggot.

>According to you, no one must enjoy progress because you're not able to handle it.
Right, I never said anything of the sort.
I alongside others talked about how we find postmodernity worse and tried to explain why.
You got triggered and in a denial spree, which was quite pathetic&autistic desu.

>There's no help for you. Enjoy your little hug-box bubble of sour-grape syndrome and other typical r9k and circlejerk related things.

Oh ok. So here's the issue. You're one of "those". The ones that find deviation from the norm triggering. You pathologically hate contrarians or dissenting opinions.
You not only can't relate, but despise the different.

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>>61367540
jokes on you, I just turned twenty last month and I'm having a fantastic time

>>61367967
>You can avoid most of the privacy invasion by not being an idiot and using certain privacy infringing services.

Like Common Sense™ and Placebo.exe?

>>61367987
Would you just quit with your pathetic denialism?
Holy jeebus.

No, they literally do it even when out on dates. And among themselves.
Do you actually have ANY social interactions apart from reddit and tumblr?

Go out sometime around town. Look at social groups. All on phones. Guys on dates with hot chicks at a restaurant hooked to their phones.

This is getting desperate desu.

The primary ways for accessing the internet as a kid was the family desktop and the school desktops. But people didn't go on it as much as they would later. VHS/DVD, cable/satellite tv, Gameboy/DS, etc. were all big deals.

But the world didn't revolve as much around all that tech. You wouldn't have people constantly looking at/posting on Facebook, for instance.

That's about as much as I remember.

>>61367483
>1338847156557
>Monday, June 4, 2012 9:59:16.557 PM GMT

>>61367933
>What changed?
Most people weren't very active online until social media really started taking off. Now everyone and their grandma uses the internet for many hours a day. Those who were on the internet before 2007 tried to warn the masses of newcomers against the practice, but nobody listened.

>>61367996

>Just say hey I love socials and smartphones and 2017 "socialization".
I got my first smartphone a few months ago. I only use it for GPS. There goes your only argument.
You're one of those people that assume that as soon as you're pointing out someone's retarded opinion and views about something, you must love that thing. It's a pattern on g or elsewhere.
For example I get called a shill for Red Hat, Windows, systemd, GNU, various Linux distributions and similar, just because I point out retarded opinion's other have about it.

>You pathologically hate contrarians
Nice opinion, see above.

>I alongside others talked about how we find postmodernity worse and tried to explain why.
No, you only complained about not being able to handle it and having shitty relationships.
You are the "born in the wrong generation" of technology.

>>61368013

>apart from reddit and tumblr?
Nice assumptions. Yes, I do. There go all of your arguments.

>Go out sometime around town. Look at social groups. All on phones. Guys on dates with hot chicks at a restaurant hooked to their phones.
Why does that bother me? It doesn't happen to me. Unlike you, I am not literally autistic and I can handle people doing things that I don't like.

>>61367987
Way to pass the blame.

People have priorities too.
If they value their girlfriend more than me (as they should), they'll sure as hell check up their messages the instant she pops up.
They'll excuse themselves since they respect me, but it'd be a huge misunderstanding of tact for me to demand them to ignore more important things because I'm here too.

All I'm saying is smartphones add a mix of lots of things into the "here and now". Including instantly-arriving messages from important people.
Before phones you had no distractions when you were hanging out. This isn't the case.

>>61367798
Yet everyone uses.

>>61368033
>Why does that bother me? It doesn't happen to me. Unlike you, I am not literally autistic and I can handle people doing things that I don't like.

Ok so you admit it's true then.
May I enquire, are you *this* retarded or just shitposting?

I find it hard to believe someone willingly interacts with you seeing how you are extremely unpleasant and come off as a pompous, autistic, dim, obnoxious fool.

But then again maybe you vent on the internet while you passively try your best being liked irl.

>>61364787
Internet was for tech literate people. It was amazing discovering new websites about all range of topics. No clickbaiting. No fucking aggregators. Not as much spying. No social media. No DRM. No google filtering. You could literally download mp3s from everywhere.

Fucking normies destroyed the internet. Fucking hipster "webdesigners" destroyed the internet. Fuck social media, fuck facebook, twitter, instagramm.

I miss the times I didn't have a smartphone. I don't use any social media.

>10 years from now people will have nostalgia for Social Media and Smartphones

what will they be saying and shitposting about?

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>>61368049
>I find it hard to believe someone willingly interacts with you seeing how you are extremely unpleasant and come off as a pompous, autistic, dim, obnoxious fool.

I couldn't literally control the urge to punch this guy in the face if he was my friend.
Probs the worst poster ever on /g/

>>61368077
Star Trek

>>61368049

I never denied it not to be true. I was just pointing out that it's your fault if it happens to you. It's your fault if you can't handle it.

>>61368057

>new websites about all range of topics.
There are billions of websites out there. You can still use a search engine and find them.

>No clickbaiting
Figure out how to detect them. Did you also complain about "You won a million dollars!" ads back then?

>No fucking aggregators
Don't use them. Find news yourself, don't use convenience. You most likely used "portals" back then which were nothing but news aggregators.

>Not as much spying.
Use anonymizing tools as much as possible.

> No social media
Don't use it.

>No DRM
Download unauthorized copies.

>No google filtering.
Use different search engines.

>destroyed the internet
There's more content now than there ever was and the old content is still available to you.

>>61368025
>>61368033
So lemme get this str8 my man, you posted 1000s of bitter words because you found these guys complaining triggering?

You literally got triggered that they didn't like something you instead deemed to be acceptable.

Do I get this right? You're butthurt about them complaining about a modern phenomenon.

For what reason? Do you have some sort of mental condition or..?

>>61368078

>whaaa people don't approve of my unrealistic and skewed romanticizing of past times
>i must punch them because how dare they point out my idiocy?!

>>61367951
Are your friends retards? Me and my friends multitask constantly. It's just like when we talk on mumble, we play a game or browse while talking. If you cant talk wwhile doing something you are retarded.

>>61364912
my old man did this, i remember helping him find specific notes from multiple little notepads he had kept in his front pocket

pretty sure if he didnt move he would still have them on the spare desk piled up

now everything goes onto a device that is easily hacked with everything sorted and with a search function

>>61368103
No it's just probably the least likeabel and more annoying poster ever. I can't imagine being able to stand for your retardation irl.

You remind me of the ugly dumb guy that thinks he's cool and tries to make fun of others from HS, but just ends up being pathetic

>>61368100

Why do you think I'm triggered or butthurt? Do you see me using exclamation marks?

I just enjoy pointing out their stupid views about things. It's an anonymous internet image based discussion forum. That's what it's for.
Do you want a safe space where your opinions and backed and approved all the time? Then perhaps consider using a different website for that.

>>61368077
People will realize they were getting mad over the stupidest things on Social Media and started -gate movements, at least I hope so. Everyone is so sensitive today on all sides.

>>61368115

Yes, pointing out stupid beliefs about technology on a technology related internet forum is obnoxious. All of your arguments are some ad-hominems or similar.
Hint: there are multiple people disagreeing with you and the other here. It's not just one person (me).

>>61368105
The thing is - it's not just multitasking. They can do things and talk just fine.
What they can't do is talk with two people at the same time (one in text on phone, one with speech in person).

Try it yourself. Even if you manage, the other person will feel neglected.
The attention just isn't there.

everything was better, even for the internet, normies just living their lives and the internet anons were more unknown for the world, this kind of sites, or just twitter, were better places, I remember the beta version and it was great because just a bunch of nerds sharing info, that was the true essence of the good internet, now its bullshit, even normies come to this sites and they think there are important, more than just beign a piece of crap, everything is diferent, for to worse, the world is a worse place to stay, this is terrible, holy shit.. damn changes

>>61368145
To be quite honest I prefer the world before the wall went down.

>>61368119
>Why do you think I'm triggered or butthurt?
Because you literally spent a long time trying to debunk (and failing) every single point in a very hostile manner.
>Do you see me using exclamation marks?
Is this what you think a butthurt person would employ? Exclamation mark=angry
I suppose CAPS=SHOUTING?

Seriously do are you clinically tested or?

>I just enjoy pointing out their stupid views about things.
Thign is they're not stupid. Their opinions.
You just call them "retarded" and do everything possible to deny them for no apaprent reason.

>Do you want a safe space where your opinions and backed and approved all the time? Then perhaps consider using a different website for that.
Here's that bitter autism we talked about.
What leads you to be like this?
What's bothering you anon, you can share, we're among friends here.

I mean you did ruin the entire thread, might as well tell us what's bothering you

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>mfw mirc

Good times

>>61368159
It's still a thing.
[spoiler]Specially if you're some sort of furfag[/spoiler]

>>61367933
What you described in your post is exactly the correct answer to your own question.

People have the right to privacy, but most prefer fame, or at the very least, attention / social status. As such, many of those people (the majority) give up their basic human rights to privacy just so they can show you their own highlight reel, or just to be seen by their internet friends.

As Google, Facebook, and all of them have made more and more privacy obsolete, many people have chosen to just give what remains of said privacy in order to afford themselves the convenience of using said things, not knowing they are being used in the process.

It is kinda like the person that gets laid all the time. Persona A (Majority) tells you all about it, and in much detail, while person B (Minority) chooses to be more private and reveal limited info, really, only when they feel it is appropriate (or had too much to drink).

The same kids that were taught to stay anonymous by their parents are now parents themselves, and are instead teaching their kids to be attention whores, because THEY are now attention whores themselves.

In fact, many people who are now grandparents also gave up privacy, not for attention, but just to stay connected to their friends and family, who, in the end, willingly gave up their privacy out of narcissism long ago.

Now that selfies have become the norm and Snap Chat / Instagram are at their peak, shit is bound to only get worse.

>>61368133
>pointing out stupid beliefs about technology on a technology related internet forum is obnoxious.

No calling others stupid while being yourself the image of retardation is.

>All of your arguments are some ad-hominems or similar.
Mine? I didn't even say anything.
But you do realize the entire extent of your argumentation has been:
"stupid"
"retard"
"no"
then when called out on your bs:
"yes but it's your own fault lmao, retard lol".

>here are multiple people disagreeing with you and the other here
are there now? I see alot of posts from you

>>61367540
>>ITT: People who have become old and blame it on the times that supposedly have changed.
>It obviously isn't that easy to talk to girls anymore, because you aren't 16 but 30.

It is a lot easier because when you are 30 you are a lot more self-confident than omes angsty teen, you just don't give a shit about being rejected when you are older.

>>61364906
This is true there were sites like Newgrounds, YTMND, etc. Everyone had a AIM,MSN messenger and everyone talked more in the messenger daily and shared things that way or talked in conversations with everyone else. Some days you would talk other days you would not. It was just whatever whenever.

Social media I think has made us into narcissistic people that only try to make memes for Fame and for attention not because it's funny or silly. The only thing I do like in a way is the ability to spread the word about something and to give exposure to certain companies.

>>61367952
>ABBA is one of the best, most iconic bands of the 80s.
70s

>>61368242
This 80s is Synth Pop and Hairbands

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A better place

>>61367253
LEAVEMEALONE

>>61367951
I remembered when Myspace was that addictive and you made freinds etc. But once Facebook took over I just shut Myspace down and moved to YouTube as my daily driver really.

Social media I learned to just look at in the morning or at night. But as time has went on I barely use it anymore.

Used early social media when I was younger but I've kinda grown out of it. At some point I just stop caring about other peoples personal lives. Sometimes I feel I know too much about people I haven't seen in 10 years just from the stuff they post everyday and others only want you to see the highlights of their lives.

>>61368233
i'm glad to have lived that era. myspace was like the last good thing that quickly became terrible with each passing year it existed. by 2008, maybe 2009 at the most, it was game over.

>>61367483

>you had to write shit down

I remember carrying a small pocket diary which had a little half page for every day, general notepad and a few pages for addresses. Wasn't so bad.

>>61368328
>daily driver

kys

>>61367537
>I have the world's knowledge at the palm of my hand and yet I feel like I have less time to do stuff.

Yeah we knew less and did more. The other thing is people who knew stuff were respected for it more than they are now.

>>61368355

Are you, me?

>>61368145
Black people ruined Twitter

>>61364787
much better

>>61367776
>pop music
>already shit in the early 2000s
How about Eurobeat, Trance or links below?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cisQlKU8d3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pux_4ztN13A

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>>61364787
Until broadband/dsl, you could only be on for so long if you didn't have a dedicated phone line. You literally would be up all night in degeneracy. People worried about your well being if you were online for a few hours.

I started using Slackware in '97 over the course of a summer at night and stopped playing sports and everyone I knew was deeply concerned. 20 years later I bank and never feel like I'm working, so no fucks given.

we need to go back to 1776, but keep all the smart programmers, and get rid of all the "koders"

>>61364787
- riding the bmx bike the whole day with your parents don't give a damn where you are then you go home for dinner because that's how kids were raised back then, to actually go out and play
- out somewhere most of the time with friends or classmates, we had a meeting spot so the day before we would schedule the time, but usually it was a gamble, sometimes nobody appears, they had no landline phones
- fap to women's home magazines, and also playboy, hustler etc if lucky
- rent beta or vhs tapes, had to rewind it before giving it back, also fap to The Blue Lagoon, Taboo, etc, usually the nude scenes had lots of lines due to too much rewinding and playing
- play cassette tapes until the cassette player eats it, fix it by stretching the tape on your jeans, use ballpen to rewind it if using a Walkman to conserve batteries
- wait for your favorite song to play on the radio so you can record it in your mixtape which your friend will borrow and expect it not to be returned for weeks or months
- use the public phone to call someone. I had to hoard coins for this. Calling gf who lives on another city was expensive af

all of your friends had a face, a name, and a landline telephone number

people used to pick up said phone and actually dial said numbers

>>61372061
Don't forgot, numbers had buttons and sometimes they had dials. Shit was crazy.

>>61367776

That was the year pop music died. I barely remember anything post due to how unremarkable it all was

>>61372352

music died after Linkin Park stopped making Hybrid Theory records

>>61372368

Nah plenty good electronic music was made.

But yeah after 24/7 rotation of In The End nothing can compare.

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>>61372413

>electronic music

that also died after this

Same as now for me

>>61367411
Everyone in my family had Mapsco maps of the whole city in our cars.

>>61367253
so true, in my case was PC and Playstation 1 games.
i miss those times...so much fun...

>>61364906
Just don't use social media.
I have linkedin and kikebook accounts but I pass days without checking and almost don't post. I really don't care for this shit except for work contacts.

>>61372425

Nah big beat had its stay, house and big room still live on.

>>61364787
>Life before social media and smartphones, what was it like?

Society wasn't as fractured.

Social media has allowed fringe groups to connect and have an over-blown sense of self-important relevance than they really deserve. This goes for extreme hate groups, extreme SJWs, extreme attention whores ... you name it.

Before social newtorking, these extremists were isolated, and they could see that they were not normal because they were surrounded. Now, by finding other like-minded extremists, and grouping together on social media, their sense of social importance has become exaggerated and over-bearing, and they think their voice should be equal with everyone else's. It is a tyranny of the minority.

>>61372368
>music died with Linkin Park

Fixd

>>61364787
There were less normies on the internet.
It was great.
Then you faggots came out of the woodwork like a bunch of retarded zombies, and we didn't have enough ammunition to keep you at bay.
That's what happens you know...when the zombie invasion starts. Video games would lead you to believe there's some sort of escape or somewhere you can survive. But every bunker fails eventually. It's only a matter of time.

>>61372678
This happens to everything though.

Once upon a time we had this thing called 'Santarchy' and it was just punks and whatever who did performance art shenanigans.

Then the Facebook crowd found out about it and it became a pub crawl or normie pubs and slutty santas. The Facebook crowd also killed the early 2000s zombie walk, and pretty much everything else that was interesting. The Eternal Summer

>>61372737
>Once upon a time we had this thing called afkmn, and it was just meowers and whatever who did usenet performance art shenanigans.

ftfy

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The only one thing I really miss is cybercafes, or whatever you call them in merica.
>no internet so I spent my time doing other shit
>every time I wanted to know about something Id write it down in a piece of paper
>"how 2 pass this part on the videoogmae"
>"biggest tree where"
>"local videogaem store"
>"cavalier projection how to do??"
>arrive at the cafe, pay for an hour
>everything on my list now seems uninteresting because Ive already asked friends and family about them
>just spend an hour looking at flash animations and browsing in general
>talk to some kid on the cafe, play some LAN games
>ask around if you had any problem
That rough camaraderie of the computer-less kids in my town, where you didnt really *like* any of them, but you needed one more guy to play diablo 2 with. You'd eventually make friends with them and spend the rest of the day chasing seagulls down the beach. You'll never talk with him again, probably, but you were friends for a day.
No nerds for liking videogames. No geek elitism, no chads, no stacies, no actual "taste" on anything, no underhanded friendships. Simpler times.

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>spending hours on the phone with your friends playing the same video game
>playing splitscreen games when you went to their house
>riding your bikes to scrubland to set fires and hit each other
>internet was so slow have to carefully consider before clicking porn thumbnails

>inviting friends over for Goldeneye 007 tournaments on the N64

who remembers those feels?

>>61373546
I remember those feels. Red Faction was also good because you could screenwatch and shoot your friends through walls with the railgun.

>>61364787
pretty bad, I used to get REALLY bored outside before 3G was a thing

I was also forced to socialize with actual people who didn't like me anyway, yuck

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>>61367359
What lodge do you go to brother?

You had to actually utilize something called a phonebook. You had your 10 best friends numbers memorized. You fucked around outside a lot.

>>61368043
>6
Maybe because everything else is boring as fuck? I glad it's not 90s or before again.

>>61367818
Seeing people going out together for dinner and watching their phone at the table instead of talking is sad.

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>>61364787

Fuck all that, the dude that took this photo is breddy good: https://500px.com/david-foto

Pic related

>>61374181
>60% of the site is covered with "adult content"
yup, chad confirmed.

>>61364787
it was pretty shit actually

only boomers and underage fags feel nostalgic for it

I just want you to know that I hate all of you "dae le wrong generation xd" reddit faggots

>>61374202

you have to be 18 years or older to post here kid.

>>61374272
26 and life is better than it's ever been for me.

Must feel bad to be a "le wrong generation" faggot

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>>61364787
*blocks your path*

>>61374345
*unzip dick*

>>61364787
>That book
Are they really going to read it?

>>61367237
>>61366341
Rip

Kids just playing Vidya now and shit and if they do meet it's for drugs and alcohol

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>>61374444
yes

>>61374345
*calls the cops*

I'd say people are more in the moment now. Back then the only information available to you was what was in your immediate vicinity. Now you can be aware of things happening across the world pretty much instantly. It's fundamentally changed the way I think about where I am and what I'm doing. My physical body isn't the most important thing about me, it's the information I share with others that's important. I keep in good shape only to facilitate the information I share and consume online.

>>61367270
I do the same. I hate smartphones and all that social media shit which brainwashes people. When twitter and facebook became too popular along with the fact even most retarded of people can afford to have a smartphone and post their opinions so everyone can read them made collective IQ of world to drop and it is going to decline further. In the past people read books but now they are glued to their fucking phones. Idiocracy is happening in about 50 years from now.

Do people even go to libraries any more? Now anyone can self publish literal manure on internet and use that as "facts" and "knowledge". This combined with fact internet will be hugely commercialized to the point you can't even log in without either your social security card or credit card. Screenshot my post, this will happen in 10 years from now. It will suck. You have seen how 4chan has developed from niche website to a place which is now becoming filled with so called normal people and hidden marketing agenda. Shit and retardation will consume us all, sadly.

>>61374735
>Do people even go to libraries any more?
They've closed a few libraries where i live and next year they're implementing Overdrive to have an online library so normies and old ladies can read bestseller garbage like 50 shades on their kindles.
Any money they actually saved by closing down the libraries will be spent on deals for shit books with Overdrive, there must've been some nice bribing going on.

>>61364912
I do this

>>61374735
libraries are only used by the homeless and drug addicts nowadays

>>61364787
i love to be that bicycle seat... that ass tho.

>>61365760
then opt out.

>>61364787
that image is beautiful

>>61374735
Because now the big companies and even your government is tracking and profiling you in secret. Google is archiving everything what you type and post on internet. This is all more or less secret now but in the future it wont be a secret because people are going to be forced to accept the fact that everything what you do on internet is 'public space' and they are going to implement some kind of universal accounting system which you are going to use only with your own personal id card, similar to passport... This sounds dystopian but it will happen in 10 to 20 years from now. Luckily I'm already pretty old by then and I'm sure there will be some underground ways to interact with likeminded people but that's where it's headed.

But when this happens your government doesn't need to do anything in secret though. Do you have a passport? Your fingerprints are in database already along with everything you have done in the past. This is normal. But they need to add your internet usage and computer usage to that database as well...

And yet there are people who say "go ahead, i don't have anything to hide lel XDDD". They don't really understand what it is about, it's about principle. Do you let that weird man stare you while you take a shower naked? Why does that bother you but someone making a database of all your recorded history doesn't?
[/end foaming]

>>61375847
>"go ahead, i don't have anything to hide lel XDDD".
People think tracking is okay because it "tailors your experience" and it's "the way things work nowadays in order to provide you with a better service".

>>61364787

no seriously,
source? is there a CG set for these?

>>61368328
Agreed it served it's purpose basically for all of us in high school. To get us through it and to get ready to start life in adulthood. Honestly though I hated Facebook it was bland and boring no color no sense of customization and I went off 1 year before they started doing their user tracking bs. Glad I did otherwise I would never go far in life.

>>61376259
they're at the photographer's site, but there's nothing else apart from >>61374345
>>61374468
i already tried to look for more of the girl in the back

>>61364787
12 hours of vidya every fucking day,

>>61374181
How the fuck do people find beautiful women and convince them to pose naked for a camera that will immortalize their nakedness? Is he fucking them too? If you can convince a woman to reveal herself like that you can make her do anything

>>61376298
you go to shitholes like Ukraine(where this photographer's from) or Russia and pay them 50 bucks per shoot

>>61364787
You had a much better chance with local sluts like those in the OP picture because the Internet wasn't around to show them that better are prevalent.

>>61376324
Where does one go to find more information on this modeling trade?

I love photography but the world is fucking boring. The only thing I like shooting is women and... aircraft, but the latter is 300x more likely to get me arrested.

>>61367219
This. Local ski resorts used to be packed with kids when I was young. Now they're struggling to stay alive because kids don't actually do anything other than Facebook/Instagram, video games and drugs.

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>>61376400
i don't know but lots of them do this shit
look up mike dowson, he also goes to eastern euro shitholes and takes pics of slav sluts

RL got mixed with the internet too much.

>>61376456
Cool. I always wanted to travel to those places, I got a friend working in Czech republic and he's doing great there. I wanted to visit Asia as well.

I wonder how willing these women are

>>61368532
did you not have custom CSS scripts with 10 flash games on your page

if not what a plebian

Dont know, I'm millennials

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Why did I have to be born in 98?

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>itt: kids and grandpas whining about technology being evil
go outside.

>>61372599
Not using social media on 2017 is a form of telling the world your autistic behavior and psychopath tendences.

>>61367174
WTF I HATE TECHNOLOGY NOW

>>61380027
>this is the train of thought for most sheeple these days

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>>61374345
> that bike handle lifting her skirt up

>>61364787
Who is this amoral whore?

Also it was just like it was before I met my wife: nobody ever fucking wanted to go hiking.

>>61364787

that's a shit normie bike, mate.

>>61366341
Very rarely. We used to ride around our neighbourhoods in big packs on our bikes. I rarely see kids outside just fucking around anymore. Whenever I take my dog for walks the fields and trails are devoid of kids hanging out.

Thanks to social media/smartphones people don't do shit anymore. They got there damn heads glued down looking at the phone all the time unless they at work and even then they still do it during breaks or lunch. Or taking personal calls at any old time while at work. According to a lot of Chiropractors, there's been a real serious increase of cases of Forward head posture (your posture is all fucked up so your head is literately angled forwards over your shoulders, which fucks up your spine) thanks to all the gawking at the smart phones. I've seen people walk across a busy road gawking on there phone, paying no attention to anything (such as a truck/car/etc) that may be coming down at them. People are lazy bastards now, don't do really any math or lookup shit, now it's all "google what's 5x5" or "google, where's the nearest town close to me". I miss the 80s/90's/early 2000s. Look at the 80's TV shows, people were more into life and plus the shows were hell of a lot better than the shit they got now.

>>61367237
This. People are isolating themselves from others to watch the newest movies and if they do go outside they drink trendy beers and eat GMO food.

Well the losers do anyway. There are a lot of losers these days though.

>>61364787
>That bike
damn childhood is best time in life

Here in Lithuania it was literally this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ChpXeHTMXM
Without happy ending in video sure

>>61364787
More phone calls. Instant messaging and chatrooms were a big deal also.

>>61372650

>real life is the internet
You are so delusional there is no hope for you. Hint: your SJWs or 4chan memers don't exist in real life. No one takes that serious.

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>>61368303
ya think?

way less politically incorrect internet & better memes

>lets wait 3 hours online in hope my waifu comes online on MSN

Less efficient but much more personal.

>>61364787
Alot more better and civilized. Forum was good, even the chan was okay-ish back then despite never been good.

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>get on bus
>literally everyone is sitting hunched over their smartphone, making masturbatory hand motions

This is not the future I want to live in

>>61374064
Of course everything else is boring as fuck when you have a myriad options to get a constant
stream of new information from the comfort of your own home.

The thing is tricking your brain into thinking your actual real life is boring does not really work in your favor.

Metron Ariston

>>61367540
This is about society, everyone changed, they don't go out anymore.

You don't see people outside until the dawn like the 90s.

And it's not whining, it WAS better on a social level, now it's just more convenient.

People ITT are retarded and only list the negatives while not realizing the benefits outweigh it.

>Not having to go to the store all the time just order it online and ensure you always have the lowest price=more free time
>Forgot something important at work/uni etc just search the name of some colleague and add them on social media to alert/ask them what you want
>You only have to install a keylogger on your girlfriend's laptop to know for sure if she is cheating on you or not simply by reading through her facebook account instead of you always being uncertain about cheated upon
>You can fake similar interests and stuff by quickly looking through people's facebook. This gives tech savvy people a leg up on auditioning/job opportunities/dating.
>Raising kids is a whole lot easier Just give them a tablet with pre-installed apps and keylogger to read their conversations on social media. You know exactly what your children are doing

I can keep going on and on about how great life is now compared to back then. ESPECIALLY as a /g/ person. Personally I hook up a lot more now and I feel like I have way more free time while actually working more than back in the late 90s.

>>61364787
I rode a bike.

>>61384505
>>You only have to install a keylogger on your girlfriend's laptop to know for sure if she is cheating on you or not simply by reading through her facebook account instead of you always being uncertain about cheated upon
>>You can fake similar interests and stuff by quickly looking through people's facebook. This gives tech savvy people a leg up on auditioning/job opportunities/dating.
>>Raising kids is a whole lot easier Just give them a tablet with pre-installed apps and keylogger to read their conversations on social media. You know exactly what your children are doing

Dude what the fuck

>>61364787

>wen ur bike seat stinks like shitsweat and piss because u don't wear pants

>>61367540
Sauce of webm?

>>61385478
Samsara (2011).

>>61367728
where the fuck is the Ukaine?

people would get together to play D&D instead of sitting around festering by themselves. this added a social aspect to it, and to a lot of other things that are now done online

when people got bored, they couldn't just fire up a computer, they had to actively seek out other people's company.

>>61364816
t. 00s babby

>>61385632
Thanks. Watched Baraka a few months ago and Samsara has been on my watch list since then. Guess I'll finally watch it over the weekend.

Website design was rather bulky. Blogs would either be just a long scrollable page with a text dump. Or it would be cluttered with a few of the same gifs pasted all over. There were custom mice images depending on the website.

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It was A-MAZING!
Pic related, only 90s kids will remember this

>>61367277
Believe me kid, you are not impressing anyone with your "masculinity".

>>61367798
You would be an outsider by then

>>61367298
>It reminds me of my lost youth, of hopes that never came true.
Of that warm summer dusk when you felt like you had all your life in front of you, and the girl at your side was all that it mattered.

Fuck you anon, I was having a good day.

I might as well add this anecdote to the thread: one day a friend of mine tells to download this program for my phone, telling me it's fun. It let us talk using the internet on our mobiles without sms, which was incredible. Plus it let us send emoticons. So we used it for a few days and then decided it was useless. I uninstalled it because it costed too much to be constantly connected to the internet and we already had SMS. So this program was a very early stage WhatsApp and I think I was one of the first in my country to have ever used it. A few years later everybody were using it, and now it's pretty much a standard where I live.