What was life like before the internet and social media?

Better

>>137095457
Find out for yourself.

>>137095457

More boring but more human.

underage b&

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>twitter addicts complaining about females spamming text messages

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>>137095457
Seriously I can't remember.

>>137095457
Livable.

Boring, honestly.

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>>137095457
It was beautiful.
>WE HAVE TO GO BACK

>>137095457
women were still whores.
I spent my time building world war II figurines.

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>>137095918
>I spent my time building world war II figurines.
Told you guys; it was the shit back then. And this is just one fine example.

born in 92, i remember seeing my first video game when i was 5, used the internet when i was 7, and joined facebook when i was 14... i don't remember much of the world before it, but we were being set up to get used to it from the very start

you could randomly show up at someones house and it was ok
kids would bike outside and go swimming and play hide and seek and play with waterballoons and super soakers all day.
you could hang out with 4-5 other people and play videogames or watch a movie
sometimes you would just walk around random places with friends
seeing a dog was really cool
talking about cartoons and comics with friends was fun
going to amusement parks or fun restaurants with arcades was a big deal
day dreaming was fun while watching trees blow in the wind through sunlight
videogame magazines were the shit
going to the movies was a big deal
getting chinese food was considered fun
going to a toy or electronics store was amazing
going to a book store was amazing
ordering pizza was a big deal

>>137095509
fpbp

>>137095509
First post, best post.

>>137095457
Im 36 years old so my teen age years wear internet free in a way. It was great i got drunk smoke some weed hung out with a small group of friends and went to high school.

>>137095457

You'd have to be about 50 to judge this objectively, ie: having experienced adult life before the late 90s.

>>137095457

how young are you

>>137095457
hugely underrated is that you could just be "out", basically alone, anonymous, with or without friends doing your thing and no one thought you were dead. now in addition to the professional and personal worlds going absolutely ape shit if you turn off your phone for a couple of days, if you go out youll inevitably end up in someones photo on social media. cell phones arent just accountability, its the fucking panopticon

was good until facebook really caught on. Could be that a lot of my friends had kids around then and I broke up with my long term girl friend. I just liked that you could make plans with people and they kept them. Now it seems like everyone will cancel if something better comes up

The internet was a fantastic place until "normal people" started using computers. This started to happen around -06. 07 is when the internet completely died.

>>137095509
>>137097102
>>137097295

>spend a good chunk of your day on 4chan or other websites
>"dude life was SO much better before the internet became huge"

I'll never understand this.

>>137095457
It was a bunch of faggots going around thinking they were cool because they used AOL chat rooms after school.

>>137097781
Was about to post this exact same thing. I don't go outside anymore due to this.

>>137095457
in the 90s you could stop a girl and ask her smth without appearing as a complete weirdo

>>137098305
And this too, people could still socialize like normal human beings.

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>>137095457
People used to socialize in public

>>137097964

They want to be highly productive, but consider the internet to be the one thing that stops them.

Of course, if they internet did disappear, they'd just watch TV instead.

>>137095457
Women werent narcissists, with their face glued to their phone looking at a photo of themselves and how many up votes it got.

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>>137095457

>>137097041
Nailed it.

I'd add going to video rental places was pretty sick too. Coolest job I ever had desu.

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>>137095457
Pretty shit. We had to go with the leftist MSM narrative.

>>137099323
Back in the 80s the MSM was right wing, part of the satanic panic.

>>137098725
Are you comparing newspapers (when newspapers weren't shit) to the trash people use smart phones for?

I know you are, I just want you to defend why you think they're the same.

>>137098674
You're delusional or retarded if you believe that. Women were just as narcissistic and cunty before Instashit and whatever, it just wasn't as readily visible and nobody believed you when you told them how cunty your gf was

We talked to each other face to face, people only stayed home if they basically had no choice (sick, horrible blizzard ect) and we went around in groups visiting each others houses for various reasons.

Most of you mincing little fruits would not be curled up whining about how all women are evil, because you'd eventually end up with a few and see that it's no big deal.

I don't think there's anybody from any of my schools or any of my circle of friends who did not end up with somebody eventually.

Also this thing that kids do online where they think that acting like a cunt is funny in and of itself was not really a thing that happened often, because you could just reach over and hit somebody if they were being too retarded.

So the people who were known for being funny were usually actually pretty funny.

It was generally interesting to hang out with other people.

TV was the "internet" of its time. we sat glued to the TV.

Anyone that genuinely remembers doesn't take social media seriously.

>>137099818
Cunty doesnt = narcissism dummy.

today they are absolutely obsessed with their own website pages dedicated to themselves and how they look on a constant basis.

the worst it got before the internet was spending an hour in front of the mirror putting on their face.

>>137099920

This. Life largely revolved around the programming schedule for me. There would be things you'd watch every evening pretty much from the moment you got in from school until you went to bed.

>>137099847
>>137097041

Normies. Never did any of this.

>>137098154
made a mental note yesterday to research civilized 2nd world, or remote areas of 1st world countries where life exists without techno addiction. may try to get some property or at least visit periodically, lay down some roots

I literally rode my bike everywhere just going to friend's houses and the whole goddamn neighborhood. You'd have to borrow vidya and shit. If girls liked you they had to fucking call the house and it'd be like "son there's a whore that wants to talk to you on the phone". My old pictures were literally brown version of me because I was in the sun all day. By nighttime curfew you would go home when the sun went down. I grew up in the pokemon era so it was more ridiculous with toys, cards, and trading pokemon in the vidya.

It seems to me now that people are living their lives for others and absolutely every aspect of society is image based.

>>137098154
We are especially fuck'd, Ante. We didn't get to live in the glorious years of Capitalism. We just suddenly woke up, few rich Jews showed up on our doors with bags full of promises for a brighter tomorrow.... and then we got THIS.
But seriously, I have no idea how to speak with the younger generation. They don't do any eye-contact. I am actually afraid to approach them, because it feels as if I am impudent.... They also seem to hold a great dislike of elder people and avoid them like plague.

>>137097041
>you could randomly show up at people's houses and it was ok
This. This is forever lost

>>137095457

about the same, but just more isolated.

>>137097041
You could experience all of this in 2006.

>>137095457
We listened to old people tell stories. It was nice.

>>137100550
Doesn't exist unless you get a house in the woods and stay on your property.

>>137095457
We had AIM and Yahoo! IM.

Before that, we had corded phones in the kitchen that we used to call our friend's houses and see if they could play. If no one answered, we got on our bikes and rode our happy asses over there, because back then it was rare to be kidnapped or randomly sucker-punched by niggers.

i had a chance to be a normie with a good gf but then i got Battlefield 2 and everything went to shit, fucking hate DICE now

>>137100803
>We just suddenly woke up, few rich Jews showed up on our doors with bags full of promises for a brighter tomorrow.... and then we got THIS.
I can one up you on that, we fought in a bloody war for it.

Goddamn idiots.

>>137095457

people spent more time playing with their genitalia

>>137101214
Shit now that I think about, BF1942 started me down the wrong path.

>>137095457
my hope is that one day when I build my woodland cabin refuge is that everyone else is inside on their computers and not shitting up my forest

>>137095457
ah also, memes existed, but in bizarre ways, like a popular reference from bob hope 30 years prior trickled through your parents sense of humor, and got repeated enough to make it a functional device for interacting with contemporary culture. i think whoever coined the term and acknowledged the phenomena did it in this post vietnam information/entertainment explosion. meme is a information gene basically, at some point untraceable to its source, but identfiable and familiar.

>>137099920
This is true. And comic books and video games. Shit got boring when nothing was on and you didnt have anything new to read.
If you didnt know the answer to something or couldnt remember who the guy who played that guy in that movie was, you were out of luck.

>>137097964
I'd happily not visit 4chins if it meant other people weren't phone zombies.

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>>137095457
facebook, twitter and smart phones ruined the internet.

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>>137098725
>This was wise use of commuting time.
the ancient ones didn't walk around (or attempt to drive) with media plastered inf front of their face.
the ancient ones didn't live and die by the vacuous retardation of some Corporation (monetizing) their every bit of teenage gossip.

>>137101640
i spend waaaay more time playing with my genitals now than before i was online, never stopped to think and wonder why though, guess its a mystery. that said, before the internet porn, JO theatres, and sex in general had a deliciously taboo element thats at least in my world completely evaporated.

>>137101772
In addition knowing random facts about a topic used to be a cool and marketable skill. Now everyone carries the combined history of the world in their pockets.

>>137100870
It's considered bad form to even call somebody, you have to send half a dozen texts, even though they spend their lives with their phones in their hands.

>>137095457
you memorized your friend's phone numbers and had to ask to speak to them when you called their house

>>137101669
silver lining, perhaps

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>>137095457
Parents used to shout at us from the balconies to get home for supper. We played childish games like tag and such. We had flip phones but we used them to film ridiculous videos of us fucking around. Making coke bombs and such. Now all I do Is sleep, work and shitpost. It's fucking hell. I wish I could go outside and play carelessly like a kid again Instead of living through this nightmare.

>>137095457
>all those thotties and not one know how their like-gathering social media tool functions

Lol

>>137101214
same, warcraft fucked me up for the rest of high school, I literally went 24 hours straight. Online was a whole new world and it was too fun.

>people don't talk to each other
That's not the problem with social media. It's just that people's lives are pretty much public which puts more societal pressure on EVERYONE. This makes us more competitive and more distant from one another.

>>137095457
You got your anarchist tendencies out at a younger age and became a better adult.

Less degenerate... Half the shit on the internet would be completely shocking to me in the 90s. Now all sorts of degenerate shit is completely normal and acceptable unless youre a muslim or some other kind of religious fundamentalist.

One aspect I don't think people ever really comment on is that it gave people the capacity to moan and complain and offer their opinion on shit, but also an infrastructure of people to pay them attention. I have nothing against articles, reviews, analysis, essays, etc. no matter the format) but this overtaking of the blog (no matter the format) really gets to me.

And even on /pol/ I see people partaking in and enforcing this with the YouTube "commentators" who would have never turned a single head if they were just another blog, offering their no-body opinion on events totally outside of their control or understanding.

While this always existed to an extent (BBS, Usenet, forums, etc. were rife with it) it never felt like this was "the point" of it all. On the web it always seemed that people had something more to express beyond "what I think of this thing that happened", whether they were expressing their love for some piece of media or even a researched analysis.

I'm not sure how to put it into few words, but I just think this lack of forethought and instant "content" creation has had a negative effect on discourse, because the one presenting a well-reasoned and research take on somthing will always be too late to the party compared to the guy rambling at a camera or pounding away at the keyboard.

Born in "98 and had internet access for as long as I can remember and honestly a lot of what you guys are describing sounds fairly similar to early internet. Of course I only experienced it from the perspective of a kid but I can imagine it's entirely different for kids now growing up being exposed to social media early on. The most me and my friends used the internet for was flash games and listening to music on youtube and occasionally playing stuff like counter strike. You could go days without using it whereas now everyone has access to social media and instant contact on their person at basically all times an if you don't it's considered pretty weird. Anyone implying the internet has degraded society isn't wrong but it's more specifically the fact that companies realized how big of a marketing tool the internet is and how much money could be made off it that caused the problems, especially now that whoring yourself out to certain websites is considered a societal norm.

>>137095457
>>137095509
Life was boring without the internet. The internet is what i do all day, without it I'd be bored silly

>>137095534
you're obviously baiting, no one here was alive before the internet

>>137095837
How? What is there to do without internet?

>>137097041
>you could show up randomly at someones house and it was ok
That would SUCK

>kids would bike outside and go swimming and play with waterballoons
Bullshit, kids hate eachother

>hang out with 4-5 people
Bullshit, people hate eachother

>places with friends
Bullshit, people hate eachother

>with friends

>friends
>friends
>Friends
Bullshit, people hate eachother

>>137099847
>>137097041
>these are the boomers that ruined millenials and gen z

>>137095457

In terms of academia and required books/work software?

Costly as fuck! Thats where it wins.

>>137102857
>The internet is what i do all day, without it I'd be bored silly

That doesn't sound like a worthy use of your life. All your doing is getting endless dopamine kicks.

if you had a question about something, you had to look through books. even then, you had to be content with the fact you may not find an answer. there was no instantly googling an answer.

>>137102857
>That would SUCK

It's what people did, hung around with friends.

>Bullshit, kids hate eachother
>Bullshit, people hate eachother
>Bullshit, people hate eachother

Not before the internet.

>>137095457
Ignorance was bliss.......sigh

>>137103288
I can't imagine doing that. I pay people to hang around with me from Rent-a-friend but i begged for an honest answer and they're like "yeah we'd never hang out with you if you weren't paying"

>>137103176
Well what else is there to do?

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>>137101655
>tfw you beached ships on midway island and clusterfucked the entire match

>>137103375
Why? Now you realize how the world is improving after being given the knowledge.

You go outside and play or play video games inside with a friend on couch coop.

>>137103642
>friend
Bro, this is a literal TV show meme. No one just goes and hangs out with people.

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>>137101772
I almost miss when it was just TV. Way more comfy and predictable. I'm moving in the next 6 months and I won't have access to a computer for internet at home for maybe a year or more, I'm actually looking forward to having nothing but TV at home again.
Of course I've had "internet" since 1991 when Prodigy was a thing, so I've had it since I was 10.

>>137095457
>What was life like before the internet and social media?

Gen X here. At first social media seemed interesting, but now I think it's cancer. It spread bad ideas just as quickly as good ideas.

>>137102857
Trust me, if there was no such thing as the internet you'd be fine. You'd just be a TV junkie.

>>137095457
fun as fuck.
children still played outside, went to the park, were less narcissistic, made lots of friends - most of which we still have as friends today and not that "we're 'friends' on faceberg because we know each other but i don't really know you lol"

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>>137103463
>I pay people to hang around with me from Rent-a-friend but i begged for an honest answer and they're like "yeah we'd never hang out with you if you weren't paying"

That is what they say to me as well.

>>137103762
>>I almost miss when it was just TV. Way more comfy and predictable
It also provided a common cultural experience, especially when there wasn't 3 billion channels. You could talk to someone and instantly have a topic to discuss by mentioning the evening news yesterday, or the talk show everyone watched, or the soap everyone was following, etc.

Lack of hyperproduction of course also meant higher general quality.

>>137103463
>that whole first statement

holy fuck what am i even reading
you are well and truly the broken product of a sick world

>>137103540
My sides, no MP wargame will ever match the fun of those 64 player clusterfucks.
.

>>137103541
What knowledge? Are you still falling for the punditry about the web being access to all of human creation? It's just an elaborate tracking program where your every move is sold to hundreds of dodgy ad agencies, with two companies (Google and Facebook) being the centre of it all.

>>137103746
You can just go in your friend's house like it was your own home then ogle at her older sister.

>>137098725
>people spent 12 hours a day staring at newspapers
retard

>>137095529
>more boring
found the youngfag
you're full of shit if you thought it was boring

>>137103746
in the 90's i used to go over to my friends house because he had a color monitor and simcity 2000. I didn't have windows yet. I did the same thing with nintendo. It's not a meme it's just an oldfag thing

>>137104073
But i can't talk to people online leading to social isolation. I go on 4chan because it's like human contact

>>137104237
And speaking of that, it seems that anything major that people do follow is through the lens of the internet, rather than the lens of the show itself.

I REMEMBER WHEN THEY SHOWED THE ENTIRE WINTER OLYMPICS UN-INTERRUPTED AND THE GODDAM KIKES DIDN'T MAKE YOU PAY EXTRA FOR THE FULL PACKAGE BECAUSE THE RUNNING SENTIMENT WAS THE WORLD DESERVED TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS WITHOUT SHELLING OUT EXTRA SHEKELS. >:( Sorry this just really pisses me off in current year.

>>137102857
>How? What is there to do without internet?
what are you, fucking 12? millennial shithead

>>137104169
>made lots of friends
I never had friends and l grew up before the internet, what you're saying is BULLSHIT. No one had friends

>>137104187
That's why i really need a promotion, so i can get more money and keep paying the people

>>137104311
Explain to me how

>>137104511
And where do you get the money to pay friends?

>>137104584
How did you get the friend?

>>137104801
I'm 18, i just spend 12 hours a day online, sometimes a lot more actually and find there's nothing else to do.

It was boring.
>want to play ball but friends are on vacation or sick so can't do that today
>want to watch cartoons or play vidya but it's the show you don't like or your parents are using the TV first so can't do that
>decide to read a book but you've read everything already except for boring novels you are too young too appreciate or understand yet
>go to backyard and dig a hole imagining you are an archeologist but of course you're just a fucking retard wasting time

Anyone who says it was better is a fucking dumbass looking at the past through rose tinted glasses.

>>137104837
i don't know what shithole country you're from but in america, growing up in the 80s and 90s GUARANTEED you have friends unless you were some drooling autist who smelled like doodoo

Gen X here.
In college in the 80s I had a list of phone numbers I kept in my wallet since I couldn't remember them. You'd tell people to meet you some place, and hope to god they showed up. If you were following someone to a party or something and lost them, you were SOL.
Your social media presence at that time was putting up a collage on your dorm room door or something.

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>>137104621
The internet isn't "human contact". It's an electronic box entertaining you. Sure, there might be other people entering data you're reacting to, but it isn't "human contact". You probably have as much real human contact now that youl would back then. Mostly family, sometimes coworkers, sometimes that one dysfunctional friend that's going to get you into trouble if you hang out with for too long. This shit we're doing now? This isn't "human contact". We might as well all be bots as far as your crazy ass is concerned.

>>137104783
Everything is done through proxy. It's capitalism colonizing literally everything, when it can't expand outwards, it starts eating at aspects of humanity. Dating, socializing, communication, all through corporate tools. Public spaces? All private now, with specific rules and entry price. And so on.

>>137102405
to be honest the forest probably won't exist by that point

only in VR

>>137105071
I'm American as well. I grew up in the early 2000s. I'm 18 now if that puts it into perspective born 1999. I never had friends, i can guarentee it was way worse in the 1980s since every 80s movie has a SUPER mean bully who beats the shit out of people. Video very related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1DmdgOdHgw

>>137105015
From the tooth fairy.

>>137105316
then show your flag

>>137101950
Why do you want normies to be loud and obnoxious instead of silently staring into their phones

>>137098132
We were cool.

>>137105316
That was a movie trope and not really a thing in real life.
>born in 1981.

>>137095457
It was nice. We were all less stressed out, because we didn't get doom and gloom from all over the world 24/7. We had hobbies. We called people, we visited, we wrote letters. We read books. We had hobbies. We didn't plow into each other on the road because someone is texting. We made up shit arguing, because we had no way to research anything. We'd get together at bars and BBQs and argue sports and politics, and leave still friends. We left the house.

>>137105360
Ok!

>>137105665
A comment on that video said

> I wager that most of your post Y2K generation would NOT HAVE SURVIVED a childhood in the 1980's. Bullies were at school, they followed (chased) you home, they were hanging around the Stop n Go/7-Eleven on the weekends. Essentially you COULDN'T just IGNORE them like you can ignore Cyber-bullies. You either FIGHT BACK on your feet or get kicked while on the ground crying. Regardless, the 80's is still my favorite decade!

>>137095457
better

>>137097041
It was idyllic and the end of history, and now we live in the Matrix and have to be redpilled to realise Big Brother is watching us, and we are slowly being boiled like frogs in hot water.

>>137097625
Born in 64. I lived almost half of my life with no social media or internet.

You can't even imagine what it was like. It was better. I love what the internet has brought us, but I hate what it destroyed.

>>137105214
>Everything is done through proxy.

That's an interesting point now you raise it. Watching a television show through the live twitter feed, looking at a view through the phone's camera. Everything is passed through one medium to another with you somewhere at the end.

>>137105783
Whoever posted that is a millenial trying to sound old. I was autistic and annoying as hell and if anyone was going to be bullied it was me, and no, it really wasn't any worse than now.

>>137105858
No it wouldn't be

>>137105946
How? There's nothing to do all day.

>>137105715
This sounds like a shit life.

>>137105965
I thought back then the school bored, police, and whole community didn't give a crap about that stuff. So if you weren't tough you got jumped on your way home from school.

>>137097041
this stuff

also imagine calling a friend's house phone, maybe their parents or siblings would answer, you ask to talk to them and see if they want to hang out.

>>137106170
People still do this.

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>>137095457
Less convenience, but slower access to information.

It's better in many ways, but I won't overlook at the bad things it brings too.

>born in 85'
>didn't get computer/internet until 2000/2001
>no cell phone until 2005/2006
>no area codes. Memorized every friends home phone number (only 4 number sequence)
>a normal day would be call friend...run out of shit to talk about...set meet up for next day
>ride bike about 10-15 km through town to meet somewhere like a forest or pizza store.
>make jumps for bikes. Do jumps. Maybe break your arm. Everybody i know broke something at one point.
>come across marijuana plants in a corn field. Take them.
>smoke them. Become a young pot addict.
>play twisted metal, tony hawk and NHL games ob PS1 and PS2 with 3-4 bros
>sell pot in highschool.
>get labelled a loser.
>rebel more. Embrace punk rock and its image.
>skip school alot.
>parents constantly bitching.
>get internet.
>abandon friends for perpetual masturbation through webcam and porn.
>become a shut in and become addicted to porn+video games.
>good goy
>depressed and lonely
>life sucks after internet.

>>137099553
Nope. They were somewhat balanced - each paper had it's own slant, usually coming from their Editor in Chief. The NYTimes has always been liberal. The SF Chronicle was somewhat conservative.

The closest you could get to the internet was the opinion/editorial/letters to the editor pages.

>>137095457
it was awesome
you could do stupid stuff and not worry about someone filming it and putting it on youtube so it would surface years later when a recruiter googles you
also people would just do stuff without thinking about how many likes or followers it would get

>>137095457
>>137095509
>>137095529
>>137104545


It was worse. People were always blindly saying perverted things. Now with the internet, all of that is contained (except for the niggers)

>>137106126
>way home from school
we rode the bus or our parents picked us up, just like now. trust me, the only things different is there's internet now and the clothes hair and cars are different looking. we had feminists, niggers, autists, jocks, every flavor of annoying cunt you can imagine. big difference was there was not "transtrending" so trannies were so rare to ever run into.

>>137105783
and look at what you get now without bullies.
degenerate ladyboys and cunts with pink hair who do nothing all day.
the bullies now are radical leftists who deem any person with dissenting opinion or divergent thinking as "racist homophobe islamophobe antisemites".
this did not exist back then, because everyone got along and racial tension was almost non-existent, but seeing as you are only 18, born in 1999 yet "guarantee" the 80's and 90's weren't what we say it is even though we've been through it, WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW

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>>137106298
The internet is better than its ever been. It's just the web that's bringing it down.

I sometimes feel tempted to say "fuck it" and take up Gopher and Usenet. Any BBSs still active?

>>137095457
About the same. No one talked to each other then or now.

>>137106537
>People were always blindly saying perverted things
wrong. i'll bet you my fucking life savings you weren't even alive back then

>>137097041
All this and then some.

>>137095457
>used telephone (landlines at that) to ask friends if they want to do something
>if that didnt work, go knock on their door and ask
>console games with blood and gore, despite being really pixelated, were super exciting
>can say stupid shit that you later realize was stupid and not nearly as many people knew about it, most who did just forgot

>>137106597
So this time is way better

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>>137095457
I remember when we were kids, we had to walk half the neighborhood to call the whole gang together.
We would spend the entire day outside playing football, only going home for like 4-5 hours while it was the hottest time of the day.
Playing football and chasing girls was the normal and usual part of the day.
The more rare pleasures included going to the arcades, spending hours there socializing with the lads and the big boys.
Going on "neighborhood adventures", where we would go to unexplored places in the neighborhood and do all sorts of shit there was like an adventure movie.
A person's parents taking the whole gang to the restaurant was a crazy adventure of it's own.
Life was way better and simpler back then, but I didn't know about the kikes back then...

>>137106621
THIS oh my god. I was a bully target back then and I see limp wristed faggot drama queens running around that I WOULD HAVE BULLIED. What fucking world is this now.

>>137095457
>riding bikes around the spots in town looking for you're friends to hang out with

>>137104237
We also weren't in constant contact with each other. I'd go years without seeing cousins, because they lived on the other side of the country. So when you ran into someone, you had to get caught up - you actually had something to talk about.

>>137106621
I was bullied a lot and I am nothing like an SJW. Honestly if i had to compare myself to anyone it would be George Mcfly and from anyones standards he's just a regular guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_DB6GgLQs

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>>137106597
*sigh*

I guess.

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>>137097041
The gaming ads were so amazing...

What was food like before the microwave....?

>>137107073
I meant this for >>137106894

>>137097041
Keg parties in the woods.
Six bros in a car to ball games/concert with no tickets ; hoping to scalp.
Backyard/house parties
Video game arcades
Real dive bars

>>137095529
More boring? Back then people would would interact more with each other, go out and find meaningful things to do outside of internet. Maybe if you have spent your whole life in a dreary working class urban environment life was boring, not to me. And all those times playing nintendo...

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>>137097964
You don't really get it, unless you lived in a time without internet and specifically smartphones. That atmosphere was different, being sociable everywhere you went was typical, literally no one was inattentive. If you wanted to go see someone, you would just walk down the street and knock on their door. I'm really thankful for having at least spent my childhood and teen years in a time before the internet was proliferated into everyone's pocket. Also, we had internet back then and it was much better - it was also more sociable, chatrooms were happening and people were friendly - now you can't even find a chatroom today because they are all shutdown, but everyone is a fag anyway.

>>137105316
I graduated high school in 1982. Those movies had very little to do with reality.

>>137095457

Had to fap to the 10 minute preview of the Fantasy Channel.

>>137095457
Boring normie shit. No anime and games, and eople used to masturbate over floor tiles and crappy model magazines.

>>137106621
There was racial tension. Niggers pretty much were violent dipshits back then the only thing that hasnt changed in 30 yrs or so. (42 yrs old now).

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It was also better when there wasn't a fuckwit in the whitehouse shitposting on twitter all day.

>>137107274
A lot of the comments are saying that did.

>>137107258
Literally everyday after highschool i just went on the computer until like 9 at night. I can't imagine how horrible life would be without internet.

>>137107436
Thats the best part of this time.

>>137107109
You know what I miss from the 90s, or just that time in genera? The 'tude.

Re-watch The Matrix, it's dripping in 'tude.

Causing trouble was the only form of entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxYq0FvBo5M

I had to find a land line to call anyone for a ride

You never heard personal drama from regular people outside of your immediate high school. As a result your middle/highschool seemed the world

What was shown on the news was taken as undeniable truth.


That's about it. A lot less "noise" to keep people distracted, to be honest. No e-celeb shit, no social echo-chamber bullshit outside of your school's club or whatever.. a lot more conversation, person to person....

I miss the early internet, it was only for enthusiasts and nerds not for "normal" people. Social media was a misstake.

The internet has
>Spoiled all TV shows and video games
>Given friends and family an excuse to not interact (social media)
>Given people an excuse to take naked pictures of themselves and actually share them with strangers
>Got everyone addicted to it

>>137105981
We had *plenty* to do. We just weren't autists like you.

>>137107436
What the fuck are you talking about we've had a fuckwit in the White House ever since Eisenhower walked out on his last day. #truth

>>137097781
In the summer when it's light outside for 22 hours a day, I usually go for a walk, a jog or a hike around 4am. I get back around 6AM, right before people start to leave for work.
It's really tranquil, and I usually don't see a single person. Just a lot of cats and deer.

>>137107565
go back to plebbit with that redditspacing you lying sack of shit teenager.
you have no idea what it was like back then. you're basing your judgment off of youtube comments?
lol fuck off kid

>>137107565
It would have been TV instead.

>>137107565
What I'm trying to say is that it was completely different. Because internet wasn't "normal", the people were different as well - it wasn't a big deal to go out and hang around with people, or just talk with random folks. Then again I did grow up never seeing a single non-white in my entire life, even through high school. So I may be a little biased.

>>137106051
Yet, it wasn't. You'll never understand, and that's the problem.

>>137095457
more ignorant than you could imagine. people blame boomers, but imagine how much you would know about elections or the world if the (((newspapers))) and (((cnn))) were the only sources of news for you and even then they barely covered anything you wanted to know.

>>137107391
t. 14 year old millenial whippersnapper

>>137107978
Like what?

>>137108019
All i know is that without internet there's nothing to fucking do.

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>>137107109
>my friends dad worked for SNK
>We went to Las Vegas for Comdex way back in 1989
>We had badges pretending to be employees of SNK
>Got to walk around in heaven. Lots of booth babes, playboy bunnies, Penthouse Pets and a host of other things
>Had picture taken with some chicks dressed up in costumes with one chick sitting on my lap
>She was grinding her ass into my crotch and I got a huge boner
>she then laughed and said "there we go. Now I am ready for the picture"

OH HOW I MISS THOSE DAYS! PLEASE GOD BRING THEM BACK

>>137095457
It was much harder to find a prostitute. Now, they're just a click or tow away.

>>137108183
There are no prostitutes anymore.

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>>137106621
>racial tension was almost non-existent

Its strange how close to the truth this was in the 80s and 90s. Racism was downright taboo in the 90s and no one would dare say the dreaded "n-word" unless they were in a safe situation to do so, black people in entertainment wasnt even given a 2nd thought by anyone because it just seemed normal. Now it feels like the left sees non-whites as helpless children and the right is retaliating by just not giving a fuck anymore and sending racial slurs in every direction.

>>137108138
>All i know is that without internet there's nothing to fucking do.>>
BECAUSE YOU ARE STILL A FUCKING CHILD. YOU WERE BORN IN 1999
WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND

>>137107918
This.

Social media and phones brought all the niggers and shitskins.

>>137107258
>I'm really thankful for having at least spent my childhood and teen years in a time before the internet was proliferated into everyone's pocket.
I'm not. I can't adjust to this world at all (and of course I don't even think it's worth it). It's terrible. Everything is shit.

>>137107981
They're young, they didn't have to deal with that fuckwit Carter.

>>137108266
>forgetting the LA riots

>>137107857
The e-celeb shit, even on /pol/ with "our guys" is driving me mad.

It's like the entire web has been taken over by the type of people that used to follow Maddox religiously.

>>137108138
If the internet never existed there wouldn't have been anything for you to miss. Plus it's a means to an end, right? We had games to play and other ways to set ourselves up to get laid. Do you honestly use the internet for anything other than that now?

>>137095457
There was a chart I saw not too long ago that was like "how lonely an American feels" over time, or something like that. It started to exponentially grow after 2007 when Facebook became ubiquitous and hasn't really gone down since.

>>137095457
how the fuck would I know? I was born in 97

>>137108112
fuck u projecting cunt, i'm almost twice that age
back then bullying, murder, rape, theft was much more prevalent and people weren't as accepting as they are now

>>137108261
>>137108183
bullshit they were in the phone book under "escorts"

>>137095457
I was born in 88. Didn't really have a cell phone until I was 18. The only "social media" we had was myspace, and you had to be on a computer to use it and my computer at home was a piece of shit. I just played outside and went to the beach a lot. I felt a lot happier, but maybe that was just youthful carefree ignorance. Every generation has its issues. I feel confident saying that young kids with cell phones are fucking stupid though.

>>137102857
This has to be bait. Not remarkable, but bait nonetheless.

>>137095457
White kids listened to Marlyn Manson and Nirvana.

We had to call our friends on their landline, ask whoever answered to speak with them.

Generally hung out in parks, did drugs and other degenerate shit.

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>>137095509
This

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

>three way conversations on landlines.
>calling 1-800 numbers with buddies to prank call and be dumb "...thank you for calling AT & T how can I help you... [kids voice] hey...you sound pretty hot...do you have big boobs?"
>Breaking into your school to shit and piss all over the stage curtains and floor like me and my friend did. We dragged a bench to centre of gym where they do basketball tip off. We both shit on floor. Grabbed a mop and smushed our shit all over centre tip off laughing "...dude...theyre gomna cancle gym and say thats shitty hurrhurrburr"
>dudes in special suits and respirators come clean gym. Nervous as fuck all day long.
>Going into a corn field when its dark. Throwing the cobbs at cars driving by.
>usually a car would stop and some guy would come running into the field after us. Awesome adrenaline rush. One guy chased us through the field for 45 minutes. Amazing.

>>137095457
People used to just get together and "hang out", like in IASIP or something.

>>137107918
This X 10000

I blame Steve Jobs for this. He made it so narcissistic women and niggers and other 3rd world filth could stink up the internet.

Internet before shitskins was pure heaven.

>>137108878
Alternatively
https://archive.is/ReLXr

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Don't listen to the nostalgia ridden faggots. Life was shitty and boring back then. Thats why we have the internet.

>>137108138
Like what? Seriously? LOL. You have to be trolling.

How about hobbies? Once I hit high school, most of us had guitars, or a drum kit, we had bikes, we read books and magazines, we built model airplanes and Estes rockets and blew shit up, we fucked around with tools building go carts out of old lawnmower engines, we played sports, we went swimming - we did normal stuff - stuff people do.
Just because you're an autist who lives on 4chan doesnt mean everyone is.

>>137108941
Since you have archived me so many times, have you actually read it?

All I know is all t house gurls in the pick would notice me staring and jerking it in my pants so I guess its not all bad

>>137108183
Didn't need prostitutes, it was pre-aids and it was easier to get laid.

Oh, wait, 4chan. Never mind.

When you wanted to contact somebody you had to call their house and always potentially speak to one of their family members first. I was thinking about this the other day for some reason

>>137108619
^^^ THIS
remember when you used to go to the library to get laid?
now it's tinder "pump and dump"

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>>137095457
We gained a lot at the price of our souls; social interaction has greatly suffered, but we're all much more intelligent and informed.

No going back, but back was worse in a lot of ways.

>>137108509
I was going to USC at the time. (University of Southern California).

There were lots of niggers running around. It was the crest of the crack epidemic and every night we heard police helicopters flying overhead and the sound of gunfire and police sirens were all night long.

But before Rodney King you could go into one of those black BBQ places and nobody would bother you.

You could walk to the National History Museum with your friends to see some really cool stuff and not be terrified that someone was going to kill you when you got out.

All that changed (on purpose) when the swampers wanted to transform America. It was like a switch was turned on and everything went deadly overnight.

I had to transfer from USC to another University because it became far too dangerous to go there.

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

>>137108509
Its close, but not exactly. There was definitely a divide between races still. But there wasnt exactly an ongoing worldwide argument over whether blacks were irredeemable filth or helpless children that dindu nuffin and cant do nuffin.

>>137109053
it totally depended on where you lived. I didn't have tech growing up and I had plenty of fun doing other activities. I can see growing up in a crappy town without tech might be rough though.

It was also nice not feeling like you had to pose for a snapchat or an IG pic every 30 minutes too. I don't even think I have pictures from my youth unless my parents took them.

>>137109420
>but we're all much more intelligent and informed.
No you're not, your phone is.

>>137105715
>We made up shit arguing, because we had no way to research anything
That's one of the vital things we're missing in todays world. You could spend hours talking and discussing shit because no one had a way to instantly end a discussion through google.
You had to actually develop verbal skills. Being a know it all gave you nothing if you had no way to push your point across.

So much social interaction is lost. Pile up all those questions you google, places to go, directions, time, all the arguments it settles. All those things that you don't even bother to bring up to discussion as you and other know the answer is right there.
Whenever you don't have a definite answer, imagination gets to play. modern kinds don't need to deal with uncertainty, they can just google this shit. By the time they hit stuff google can't answer they are in their teens and clueless how to proceed.

>>137109053

the one thing I miss is being able to lie so easily, in the early 90s you could tell people your dad was in nintendo and the new console is already out in japan and has 8 controller support and everyone would believe you because they couldnt just google it

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>>137095457

Internet helped both Power Structures & the Public.

[KB's: http://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/boards/pol.x/subject/Knowledge%20Bomb/username/anonymous5/tripcode/%21%219O2tecpDHQ6/]

Never been a fan of Social Media, it's used to control & track people.

>>137108895
That sounds awesome!

>>137108619
Ummm yeah. I've never gotten laid before and don't plan on it. I also don't play games. I pretty much do 4chan all day making threads about SJWs

>>137109309
library, skating rink, bar, your friend's house if he had a large group over, meet them in class, now we sit getting fat hoping one of our female acquaintances on social media is lonely and single enough to want to fuck. we just fish for them on facebook now. it's rather boring. at least back then you had to think about what you said on the fly and learn to smoothe talk instead of sitting at a keyboard analysing your every next sentence.

>>137108812
You're a bad troll, you have to be

>>137109054
>high-school
>built rockets
You have to be trolling

>>137109632
this and playing hookie or pretending to be somewhere else was easy too. now people can essentially track you on your cell phone these days. Impossible to go ghost for a day or two.

>>137104511
I used to ogle my friend's sister. One time we were playing Nintendo in his room and she comes walking in fresh out of the shower, towel draped around her, and sits on the bed next to me. My 15 year old self couldn't keep my eyes on the screen. Good times.

>>137107918
This is something I think is missing now. To be able to rationalise the massive cost (people forget how much the phone lines for dialling used to be) and all the issues with accessing the web you had to be a bit "off". Back when posting a picture of yourself was an expensive 5 step process you had to be an oddball, or to dedicate hours to a perfectly formatted Transformers site (full of MSPaint cropped images from others' sites).

>>137109632
>i love lying
kys, you sinning faggot

>>137109933
>built rockets

he means the model rockets, you dumbass.

>>137109513
Why does everyone look so freaking ugly back then?

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>>137109778
God knows what your weird ass would have been doing back then, no offense.

>>137109632
Yea...being gullible as fuck was all part of the fun.

>>137095509
When the first post is the best post.

>>137110123
Yeah. I remember asking about that since my cousin did that and my mom yelled at me for even asking to do that.

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>>137095457
Like this

So the other day I took my dick out and walked to class no one even noticed. I walked by like 30 people in the quad all had there head in there devices.

>>137110192
I'm curious, what do you think i would have been doing? And im not even weird, I'd love to hang out with people if i could.

>>137109974
I just checked, and my shitty weeb site from 1999 is still up.

>>137108776
Yes, but they didn't advertise their price, services offered or real pics. There were also no review services like you can find online now. Now, a quick text gets them to your door.

>>137095457
Life was better without social media. Don't believe the <18 year olds that say it was boring. Social media helped make people less social in general.

>>137110388
what up surf fag. I miss paddling out. I rarely have time to do it anymore. do you still surf? so many good summer memories spent surfing and not giving a shit about anything.

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Sometimes when I'm sad or freaked out to the point of breakdown I re-create a pre-1995 weekend with my old family. I shut my cell phone off and leave it at home, I drive to Johnson City, TN, stop and buy some comic books at the store, rent a room at the Doubletree, go walk around the mall, play pinball, read comics, watch the TV, go swimming, and just stare out the hotel window. The things I do to keep from eating a bullet.

>>137110685
Fascist surfers, huh?

>>137108895
>shitting in the urinals, shitting on the floor ("oops i missed")
>spitting on the water fountain spout and snickering as people stopped to get a drink
>clogging the sink drains with papertowels and turning them on full blast
>setting off fireworks in the bathroom
>pulling the fire alarm in the middle of winter
>bringing your dad's porn posters to school with all the other boys gathering around to see what a vagina looks like
>not even knowing what a "faggot" was or that they exist
>owning a computer was almost like a status symbol
>the house had 1 telephone hooked up to a landline
>drugs scared the shit out of you - even weed

>>137109264
But paying cash is so much easier. No games, no drama later. Just a few Benjamins gets them for an couple hours, and more importantly, gets rid of them after a couple hours.

>>137109933
Middle school, autist. We left that shit behind once we discovered girls.

>>137106300
I remember no area codes. You only had to dial them when you were calling a number outside of your own area code or out of state.

>>137110539
Angelfire or Tripod?

My Phantasy Star IV page (mostly for hosting my fanfiction where I self-insert as Alys' partner) is still up on Angelfire.
>I made a post in 2002 about "big updates coming soon..."

>>137110506
I have no clue. Probably obsess over comic books, obsess over something. Maybe the TV. Probably would have sat in front of the TV all day. Or maybe part of some special interest mail-order group. You'd be obsessed with something, that's for sure.

>>137095457
>before internet
shit
>before social media
awesome

>>137095457
shitty

>>137111098
In highschool I'd just pay girls to secretly be my fake girlfriend and meet my parents. I wasn't like an autist loser.

>>137110598
They weren't better or worse than they are now. They still catfish even to this day desu.

>>137107258
This anon gets it.

>>137111197
I'm not an obsessive person. I just have nothing else to do but 4chan. I would love to do something else.

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1990's in VHS HD

>https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY

>>137109657
It was...come to think of it I was a hell raiser like most normal dudes living in a rural community with no girlfriend, being a virgin, not knowing what the fuck life is...you just did bad shit that was bad for other people and yourself.

Vandalism was probably the worst shit we would do. Nothing horrible like burning something down. But we used to fill up garbage cans with paper towels and light them on fire at school. Make waterballoons and throw them at teachers. We used to peep on senior highschool girls sun bathe with binoculars "...dude...shes so hot...i would totally let her give me a blow job..." "...yeasss...her boobs look squishy as hell..." "...i want to grab her ass..." "...man id totally make out with her right now...". You could imagine whatit was like to not regularly watch porn. Most nude magazines werelike playboy and scrambled porn late at night. Maybe youd see penetration for a split second. That was it.

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>>137110661
Lets attach a picture to that feeling

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>>137111067
surfing is red pilled as fuck, varg.

>>137111156
Tripod. Last update in 2000.

>>137111087
We actually liked girls back then. You wouldn't understand. And, they liked us. This was before the divorce epidemic and the rise of second gen feminism. The early 80's was a fucking orgy.

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>>137095457
for the most part, people actually talked to each other and were happy.

thanks to the internet, crazy assholes have echo chambers to validate their own delusions, and then go out into the world thinking that most people agree with their world view

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>>137099636
>when newspapers weren't shit

You are so naive that I feel bad about insulting you. Now I'm over it. That is a stupid thing to say and you are a stupid person for saying it.

>>137111378
That's the thing you obsess over 4chan all day. It would have been something else keeping your attention. I'm not saying it's bad, but if this is what you do all day, it's an obsession.

>>137111215
this is probably the most accurate response, to be honest. early internet was pretty exclusive and was only accessible by a small minority of smarter people.

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>>137109053
spoken like someone who didn't live back then.

Growing up pre-internet was awesome. You went with friends into the parks and rode your bikes, played football, climbed trees and read books out on the front porch during the cool summer evenings and night.

You were gone all day during the summer. Nobody had cell phones so nobody could micromanage you like the helicopter moms do today.

Open pool during the summer at the local junior college. Great place to meet girls

You would go to the mall and spend all day there going ice skating, play mini golf, go see a movie, go to the arcade, go into the bookstores and see if you could sneak up and grab a copy of penthouse or playboy and "read" those though scientific America so if anyone saw you they didn't see you had some porn.

Stare at the hotties working at hot dog on a stick and tell them they were pretty. Watch their faces turn red and get embarrassed.

Things like that. It was a more innocent time. You couldn't say "call me" because the only phone you had was at home and you had to share that with mom, dad and family.

>>137111103
I remember my first phone line, and having to decide what long distance company to get - and having to wait until later at night to call people outside of my area code, because it was cheaper.

Also - no answering machines. You let it ring, or tried later.

>>137111103
What's with the fucking communism of having to dial a fucking area code first? I'm in 518 (NYS), and they just announced this bullshit and I have never heard of such a thing.

Unless it's long distance, you shouldn't have to dial that shit and waste your time, that's what computers in the Phone Co. are supposed to be for.

>>137111458
Oh Walt.

If he could see what evil had taken over his company he would be so upset.

>>137111698
Except i don't even like 4chan. I don't enjoy it. I just can't find anything else to do. I'm actually very very bored right now.

>>137095457
The girl in the red shirt is really into coke now.

>>137111497
Pretty amazing that they're still up.

Also, I remember writing a pathetic rant about people only posting their fanfics on fanfiction.net rather than their own sites.

>>137111560
You also survived on your personality. You had to be sociable, freindly, and happy, not a depressed little shit. Granted, we were pretty happy - the country wasn't fucked up yet, and we could look forward to the future.

>>137111852
not to mention, 90's nostalgia isn't just people romanticizing the 90's. the economic prosperity made the 90's one of the happiest decades for most people.

>>137111852
This. I'm glad I got a bit of this growing up. Sat on a bus with my friends and went to the beach. Emphasis was on seeing someone and going out with them. Social media has had the opposite effect on people.

>>137112228
>you had to be sociable
>friendly and happy
Pick one, you can't be both.

>>137112115
>coke
>an 80s drug
maybe she's trying to go back in time

>>137095457
People talked to each other face-to-face sometimes.

>>137095457
People still found ways to entertain themselves, because they weren't exposed to the internet and social media, they didn't know what they were missing out of.

>>137112427
And cared about what the other person was saying.

>>137112406
No, she's just kind of a fuck up.

>>137112574
Lol

>>137112331
That applies to today friend. You have to be a narcissistic asshole to get along with people now because that's what our social media self-worship encourages. 90s was a different time.

Not to mention the wide array of feelings you went through as a male back then...

I remember going to the local fairgrounds and there was this kid there that was 18. I was 13. He came up to me and literally asked me if I wanted to fight. The rush of extreme fear, adrenaline and shame...do kids today even know what that feels like hiding behind their screens? That feeling of fizing my dirtbike after it broke down and ky dad patting me on the bacm and saying "hey son, good job you're a pretty handy guy...do you want a beer?" "W w w what d d dad...a f f full bbbbeer?" "You earned it" now kids dont even have a fucking dad or they dont even talk to him because he is too boring.

>>137112927
Really? I thought it was may more like that back then because people say im way too nice and it looks really weak so they don't like me. I thought in the 80s and 90s with movies like Mad Max, you got all these action heros, you had to be a douchebag to be liekd.

>you will never feel the joys of IRC again

>>137113045
My dad would sue the shit out of that 18 year old for picking a fight with a 13 year old. My dad sued my bully since he was a year old. He was 18 i was 17 since technically that's adult-minor violence.

>>137113400
I didn't tell my dad because I was ashamed to tell him i backed down from a fight.

>>137095457

Two piranhas lived in two different tanks. One day the piranhas wanted a big tank. The two piranhas were then put into the big tank along with a million other fishes. It was until a matter of time until they find each other, both with the thought that the other wanted to kill one. That's the internet summed up.

>>137112331
Honestly if you ever watch an episode of "Friends" that's what captures the 90s really well. I'm not going to say it was perfect, but the atmosphere was a lot more friendlier out in public. Honestly if you watch Friends today it's a bit of a mild culture shock. You could be a little vulnerable and open about your insecurities without expecting someone to shit on you straight away. Today it's all about fucking over the guy on you're right and trying to prove something to everyone in the room. You don't behave in a vulnerable way, you don't show any insecurity, but you've also forgoing honest communication and everyone is fake.

>>137112555
This. Even if it was just going over to your freind's house and hanging out in the basement, sneaking cigarettes and listening to albums, and talking about who the hottest girl at school was. If someone had a car, you'd have 12 guys show up to hang around with the hood open and talk engines. Go hang out in the park if you had a girlfriend, and make out on a picnic table, until it got dark. Someone was always having a party - you'd show up at someone's house you didn't know, and just hang out and meet people. Or you'd hang at home and listen to records or the radio, fuck around on a guitar, or drums. I spent a lot of nights in high school learning to draw band logos while listening to albums. (Great way to meet girls then - "Oh, you like Cheap Trick? I'll draw their logo on your notebook.") And then there were concerts, local bands playing battle of the bands shows, or playing at a party.
Nothing to do? That's funny. I was never busier than I was in high school and college. There was always something going on. Even if it was just going to the mall and hanging out in the record store, trying to meet girls. Hell, in the summertime, i was never home - being home meant hanging out with my parents, and I tried not to do that much. I loved them, but they were old.

>>137111852
It's weird seeing people talk about the 90s, the way old people talked about the 50s back then.

Back in the 90s, we were considered the loud, trashy, nihilistic degenerates who wasted our youth with MTV, video games, TV and satanic music.

>>137095509
thbhf

>>137105981
>How? There's nothing to do all day.
oh how far we've fallen.

>>137113137
Real douchebags were rare. You were a lot more dependent on other people. Be a douche and people are just going to ignore you, no cell phone to fall back to.
You got to know each other better, do stuff together, it's harder to be a real asshole in those circumstances.

>>137113137
that was TOTAL bullshit. A movie trope. IRL was NOTHING like that.

>>137111933
Idk. I'm in Jersey. We've had to dial area codes since about the late 90s early 2000s even if it's someone just up the road.

>>137113839
Dude even at work...i work in a factory and on breaks most people are on their android phones looking at facebook and what not...dven guys in their 40's and 50's. I feel like that age group are almost as addicted as the youngest gen growing up with it all because they never had tech like the guys from the 80's and 90's.

I think growing up through the 90's and early 00's was the best because we got a taste of everything from its infancy to what it is now. Plus we got all the classic outdoor lifestyle shit too. It was a good mix.

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>>137095457
it was life, like actual real life, todays "society" is the shadow realm

>>137113400
LOL. Back then, older brothers would hear about it, and go to the carnival and find the 18 year old and kick the shit out of him - and the cops wouldn't care. Any 18 year old picking on 13 year olds would be seen as a total fucking loser, anyway.

>>137105316
It was better in the 80s, and you need bullies to keep the retards and assholes from acting up. Difference between irrational bullies and rational bullies is that rational bullies see the need to pick on you to make you drop the extra baggage that wouldve otherwise ostracized you from being sociable and making friends. You wonder why you have no friends because you never had a "big brother bully" type of figure in your life. Irrational bullies, bully just to see you squirm in pain, like every other control freak. Today's generation is full of pussies that literally lack a brain because they never use it. Fucking think man.

>>137113137
No man, see >>137113839
What people say is "too nice" now was the norm back then because everyone was generally nicer. Today you have to put up walls and act a bit more rude because if you don't someone else will attack you. 80s action heroes were just a meme. "Friends" honestly captures what the 90s were like in my view. If I catch a rerun today, I'm like "fuuuck, we lost this. Honest connections. Showing how vulnerable you are, and people reciprocate by showing how vulnerable they are" it's like how people from decades ago say they lived in communities where they didn't lock the door. You can't get away with this in those same communities today. Keep everything locked up, from your property to your personality because you have to be on the defensive against the fucking typical normalized asshole of outside.

we did more other shit. like watching TV and playing offline video games.

>>137114124
I know you are older but we did that too in the late 90's and early 00's.

I can draw NOFX, Metallica, Slayer, Pennywise symbol with machinelike precision.

>>137095457
Much much better

>>137113643
Are you supposed to take a challenge like that?
The only time I ever fought was in elementary school, and I made sure there was always a teacher nearby so I could inflict the pain and then have it broken up by a teacher before the turbo nog or any of his friends could really respond.

I spent two years in a private church school after that and lost the desire to do that shit altogether.

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>>137114298
we were really averse to labels too. all this "I'm a pan-sexual trans-gender blah blah horse fucker category label cubbyhole dildo-presenting distestablishmentarian" we would have found annoying and stupid. We hated labels. It was more like "My name is so-and-so, I like to fuck stuffed horses, I also worship Hitler, and I have three cocks and two assholes and fuck you if you don't like it and no I'm not going to attach a label to it"

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E-girls didn't exists

>>137111873
>Long distance companies
I remember MCI, Sprint and AT&T being the main three. They had their own cola war type thing happening back in 80s.

>>137114467
I stopped carrying my phone around a while ago. I fell for that, too - and then realized what a cancer it is. "But what if you break down?" I drove around for over a decade without a phone, before I got my first cell phone. If I broke down, I had to find a pay phone.
People look at me strangely when I show up without a phone, and then get all pissy because I expect them to talk to me. Always makes me laugh.
Cells are handy, so I still have it, but I only take it with me when I go to work.

>>137109059
Who haven't at this point.

>>137114616
Truth to that...I WAS the older brother though.

However my buddy had an older brother that smoked all my weed whenever I got it...so he liked me sort of...one senior in school used to pick on me and he totally threw him into a locker and told him to leave me alone.

I remember looking up to this dude so bad. I wanted to impress him 24/7.

To kids today even have that? A cool as hell role model that is a nor.al person?

>>137098132
>>137105612
a/s/l?

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>>137095457
If you wanted to learn something you had to go to the library, find the book in th e card catalogue system and flip through the pages to find it.
If you wanted to tell someone something, you had to call them on a telephone connected to the wall and pay by the minute.
If you wanted to buy something you had to get in your car and drive to store and hope they had it in stock.

>>137095457
Better. As kids we were out all day fucking around in the forest, playing football, camping, fishing etc.

>>137115031
I was always taught its okay to defend yourself. So if you dont defend yourself its cowardly. You stand your ground and if it comes to blows handle it. However...i didnt understand at the time if its a fucking dude thats almost a full grown man that its okay to tattle tale.

>>137095457
Don't remember. First got non-dial up internet in 04 when I was 13 but was mostly preoccupied with sports before I became a videogame addicted shut-in recluse. Does Msn Messenger count as proper social media?

>>137108144
>>Had picture taken with some chicks dressed up in costumes with one chick sitting on my lap
>>She was grinding her ass into my crotch and I got a huge boner
>>she then laughed and said "there we go. Now I am ready for the picture"

I need to know more.

>>137110181
they didn't care

>>137113643
I didn't either but people recorded it and showed my parents

>>137114616
I was always cosnidered a loser anyway so lol no lose for me.

>>137114641
Except here's the thing. I have no idea what im doing that makes me so unsociable. I try to act as normal as possible in public. Never told anyone about political beliefs or 4chan. Just tried to act 100% normal. And my bully was like a foot taller than me so i don't know how i would fight back.

>>137095457
alot less hunchbacks running around
people were alot happier back then

we cruised the town and hung out in big groups. went to malls and hung out. played ball skated just anything to socialize
just depended on where you lived really. we went to lakes we went to camps public swimming pools played alot of recreational sports
alot of this stuff still goes on but not like it was

was really cool times
alot less political bullshit
people were mostly just happy to be and we knew we had it good but we didnt appreciate what we had. you often dont till its gone

>>137114467
>I think growing up through the 90's and early 00's was the best because we got a taste of everything from its infancy to what it is now. Plus we got all the classic outdoor lifestyle shit too. It was a good mix.

lol me and 2 of my friends went out into the woods to shoot each other with bb guns. That's what us 90s kids did before everyone got CS:GO. They were comfy times, kids. I had good memories.

>>137115928
My dad told me in middle school he'd never punish me for defending myself.

>>137116207
So? Genetics doesn't change depending on if you "care" or not

>>137097041
Kids and people still do this, what are you talking about? It's just less of a big deal because you are older. I still love all this stuff (except order pizza because it's so expensive where I'm at).

>>137116545
Your parents let you have BB guns?

>>137116609
My parents told me self defense is worse than being a bully because you are escalating violence.

>>137116627
You have to be mentally ill if you think people were ugly back then, compared to today.

As someone who grew up in the 90s, it's actually astonishing how ugly people are today.

>>137112262
Also the wall had just come down.

>>137116545
Buuut, I'm not telling anyone today to go out and do this. Times were just different back then. I think you'd be weird if you did something like this today, and worse yet, some diversity hire cop will probably spot you and shoot you.

>>137095457
I miss my childhood. It was awesome and comfy. Super nintendos, gameboys, ps1... Trading pokemon and yugioh cards with class mates. Walking/biking the neighborhood with friends. Socializing was normal and attempts were not welcomed by blank stares and disgust. The internet was still awesome with minimal advertisements, Facebook didn't exist and myspace didn't have much of an impact nor was it political. I didn't have a care in the world and it was amazing.

>>137095457
>What was life like before the internet and social media?
Video games weren't completely ruined by it.

>>137116545
i too played bb gun wars. our whole neighborhood did. 10 15 20 people at times. we played from the riverbank up thru the neighborhoods to and thru the hills.
dressed up in our camo faces painted

now days people would shit
nobody ever said a word to us

amazing fun

>>137116872
You're obviously mentally ill. Just look at any celebrity or picture of people back then, you'd have to be mentally ill to think they weren't ugly as fuck

>>137117109
Videogames sucked before internet.

Building dens in the woods with the lads, finding an old porno mag, different times

>>137116797
Yes, I had a bunch. I had like 6 different bb guns. My friends would come over and we'd shoot each other out in the back. Hurt like hell, and we could have honestly hurt someone really bad if we shot someone in the eye, but we were stupid kids, and luckily that never happened. Lol seriously wouldn't recommend it today.