Where they robots in the 70's?
What they did without vidya and internet?
>>36322337
Where there*
>>36322361
were there*
>>36322337
*Where there
They either smoked weed in their apartments, got mercilessly 70s bullied, or went army
>>36322433
Fuuuuuck i fucking hate this fucking phone
>>36322337
By robots you mean nerds? Of course. They read comic books and played D&D as escapism.
>What they did without vidya and internet?Acid.
Was Fez a robot?
>>36322337
>What they did without vidya and internet?
>70s
Senpai I can tell you what that was like in the 90s, no need to go that far back
Most of us didn't have the internet, a lot of us didn't have video games either.
What do you want to know exactly? How we talked to each other? How we met other people? How we beat off without porn? What we did to pass the time? What we did for fun? etc.
>>36323093
What you did to pass time?
Were there neets?
Maybe, probably just bullied until they could move literally anywhere get a good job and start a new life.
>>36323122
>What you did to pass time?
So much shit.
I would go to the library every few days to rent a few books, read them, bring them back and then repeated that until we finally got the internet. Same with magazines. Especially during summer vacations.
I'd also spend a lot of time just wandering the streets on my bike or roller-skate, or wandering through the woods. I'd sometimes get so bored that I'd get mad and just start fires here and there.
I'd sometimes walk around shopping malls and look at comic books and casette tapes/CDs and VHS and toys that I would never own. it was just nice to look at them.
During school before I was full-robot I would play marbles and POGs with other kids. Older kids were getting into Magic The Gathering cards but my mom wouldn't let me.
My only experience with video games was sometimes playing a bit when I went to That Kid's house, or getting to play a SNES/Genesis display thing at Sears or something. Sometimes when I was a bit older I would ride my bike to the arcade and watch other people play video games since I had no money myself to play them.
>Were there NEETs
Probably I'm sure. I was 15 at the oldest during the 90s though, so still in school myself.
>>36323432
Also when we started getting the internet at my local library we would only be able to use it one hour at a time max and all the daily slots filled up quick, I'd reserve that shit a week ahead of time.
I would then print out webpages and to later read them and re-read them again and again while I was sitting on the toilet or something.
>>36323519
>>36323432
Oh and our lives back then were so much more structured and regimented. I HAD to be at my stereo at 7 o'clock on Sundays to listen to the radio and tape songs off of it because that was my only way of finding out about new rock music. I HAD to be in front of our TV watching channel 6 at 5 PM because that was my only chance of watching The Simpsons. A lot of those TV shows if you didn't watch them when they aired once you would never see it again until the summer reruns, and if you missed that then they were gone forever.
It's not like today where I can download literally anything and everything whenever I want.
>>36323432
I just can't imagine what a neet did during the 90's . I mean, nowadays is not so bad being a neet if you have internet. You have acces to tons of information, vidya ,music and countless other shit.
But what could you did in the 90's without going out?
>>36323636
Yeah it's a world of difference.
I wasn't a NEET but I was still very much a no-friends loner for more than a few years.
These days if you're sitting alone in your room you have literally the entire world connected to your laptop or computer or phone or gaming console. You still have human contact. Back then when I was alone in my room, I was literally alone in my room.
I would re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read old books and comic books and magazines, I would play with my old legos, I would listen to some music while reading the lyrics from the inside album cover art. The latter I really miss. Being able to just lay on my bed with some headphones and following along track-by-track and analyzing all of the album art and reading the "thank you"s - something I can't do with mp3s.
My brother also spent a lot of time in his room but he would build small models of planes and warships.
We did have a computer in the living room, but no games or internet. We still had to fight over it though.
Same thing with the TV. There was one god damn TV in the living room and at times 5 of us all wanting to watch different things at the same time. We'd have to literally write ourselves into a schedule each week to get a chance at watching our shows.
Like I said too, public libraries were the shit back. of course it was all about the books and magazines but they also had the internet very early on, like starting in the mid 90s iirc.
>>36322361
>>36322484
>>36322495
Why are you 3 so dumb?
>>36323010
Nah dude. He got his dick wet on a pretty regular basis. It was just the whole language thing
>>36323936
Mom did crack during pregnancy.
>>36323894
Thanks for all the info anon.
This is indeed a great time to be alive. But still , reading the lyrics of the album cover sounds comfy, i still do it but i can imagine that was so much fun back then.
>>36324292
Sure thing.
Yeah today with high speed internet and modern tech is great, but there was still something inherently enjoyable from back then.
But on the other hand I think modern internet also gave me ADHD. I don't think I even have the attention span anymore to lay on my bed and pop in one of my old CDs and read along without skipping a single track. I should give it a try though, I do miss that.
>>36323093
90s kid here too (7-17 in the 90s).
I spent most of my time in my mom's basement watching cable.
I lived in a rowhome, which was perfect because I had no friends to throw the ball with. I would go out back for hours and throw a tennis ball at the back of my house and catch it. I even made a game out of it, complete with teams, and a folder full of scores and standings from my solitary outback baseball league.
As for porn, I didn't get AOL until I was about 16, so from the beginning of puberty until then I would Jack it to:
>the women's underwear section of catalogs
>music videos (Spears and Aguilera were fine, but Mariah Carey was my fav)
>late night half hour commercials for Gone Wild
>HBO softcore porn (it was like Thanksgiving when the Cathouse or Pimps Up Hoes Down came on)
>When my dad was alive he had a fairly frequently replenishing pornag supply on top of his wardrobe
>>36323010
he certainly isnt one now
>>36324420
>I would go out back for hours and throw a tennis ball at the back of my house and catch it
Fuck, I'd also do that. It as something that we'd do with other kids during recess but I would just do it on my own back home. If I had a bouncing ball I would just find an empty parking lot or something and bounce it as hard as I can and follow it around, etc.
I also forgot about cable, mostly because we didn't have it at our house but I'm fairly sure most people did, or maybe 50/50.
We didn't have the internet at home until I was 17 and that coupled with no cable meant that I beat off to just about everything. Sears catalogs, travel pamphlets, Archie comics, nothing but my willpower and imagination, etc.
Although there was one local TV station that aired erotic movies at like 1 in the morning on weekends. I had no idea what a pussy looked like until I was 17.
>>36323010
>>36323978
He was definitely written as a robot for a few seasons, but then he got Fat Wanda or something that was his practice gf, and then that other girl who was abusive to him and threatened to kill herself in a hilarious way, and also between those he would like take Jackie to the roller-disco or whatever and dance with her.
man what a great show, well, disregarding the last couple of seasons.