What did robots do before we had internet?

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>>39033437
We were forced to integrate because there was no escape.

They sat in caves and painted horses

>>39033437
>Work 9-5 dead-end jobs, preferably ones that had minimal human contact.
>Have a small group of friends whom you shared hobbies with.
>Throw yourself into whatever hobby you enjoyed (woodworking, model trains, etc.)
>Do this for 30 years
>Die
>Have your corpse found a week later by police doing a wellness check after complaints of the smell
>Public health funeral and cremated

i was around pre internet. It was Boring as fuck.

But it was a double edged sword. Even Chad and Stacy back then would talk to 1's and 2's. The idea that ugly people were 'sub human / non humans' who shouldnt even speak to 8+ looks rank didnt pop up til fairly recently. So, if you were out, you would at least be able to talk to people and interact. If you went to church for a month you were gonna have church friends, guys and girls. Try that at the mega church now.

But, it was so boring. There was nothing to do at home. Video games were not good. If you were sitting in your house all day people seriously wondered what the fuck you were doing. Plus the whole NEET thing did not exist cause it was so easy to get a job, you had to be literally retarded, i mean actually mentally retarded to not be able to work, and even then you might have a job.

The closest you might get to the internet back then, was hanging out in video stores, hanging out in computer stores, and hanging out at arcades. That was about it.

You ever read "A Confederacy of Dunces"? Probably something like that.

>>39033634
wowzers how old r u anon?

>>39033755


fucking old, i was a kid in the 1980s

>>39033750
nah, even ignatius had a gf

>>39033634
>Even Chad and Stacy back then would talk to 1's and 2's. The idea that ugly people were 'sub human / non humans' who shouldnt even speak to 8+ looks rank didnt pop up til fairly recently
Do you think it's social media that caused this?

>>39033910

i think it's a combination of things. I remember distinctly life before everyone had a cell phone, and after everyone had a cell phone, the change over happened around 1995'ish. After everyone had a cell phone, a weird thing started to happen, people stopped caring what was going on in front of them. People outside of people's cliques became like secondary characters, rather than seeing them as human beings. People who would of gladly spoken to you 10 years earlier suddenly would just sort of not want to even speak to you.

My theory is that most people now , in the US, have a mild form of borderline personality disorder. The wars and other shit have factored into it i think. Once you find it easy to decide one group of people arent human, it gets pretty easy to just point that at anyone you dont like.

>>39033437
I didn't have internet access in my own house untill like 2009 but I did "steal" wifi from my friends house since 07, and i was already 16 at that time. All i did beforehand was watch cartoons and play video games. All day everyday.

>>39034008
You know what I've thought about this but as it more pertaining to social media, your probably more right about it just getting cellphones themselves...

If you played Halo 2 on Xbox live there was always bantz in every single round because there was no party chat. Then in Halo 3 80% of people have the party chat icon next to their name and nobody talks in round anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA&t=232s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcS1tTqFwcs

>>39034174
now that girl would be on tumblr and those guys would be nazis on /pol/ and hate each other

>>39034174
"I'm 20" "and I'm 13!" Kek

they were drug addicts hanging out with other drug addicts in venues/hubs. Most of them didn't make it...

>>39034104
Yep. Not as old as sir old up there but I distinctly remember a time before everyone hated everyone they didn't know.
Cell phones didn't really do it. They were a novelty but people still talked.
When texting went big it fractured society into 2 different social worlds. People were no longer obligated to be polite and talk to people they didn't want to talk to.
Social media increased that exponentially.
Now you were making actual publicly declared statements about who your friends were and that was a very strange fucking thing.
When it first started everyone was friends with everyone they knew. I distinctly remember just adding classmates that I didn't really talk to on a daily basis but that I went to school with.
As people started to get used to it, friends started to get filtered. And people had to come to terms with rejecting their "neighbors" for lack of a better word. Never before did you get to just say to someone "I'm not your friend."
Even today saying that to someone you're not in a serious feud with is considered fucked up.

But for the first time ever the social obligation to be friendly was gone. Now you could pick chose and fucking customize your friends.
Remember that south park episode where Stan gets sucked into Facebook? Everyone just says ignore to him when he asks for help. That's what we've become.
Smartphones are the concentrate of both problems. Mobile social media and inclusive conversations. That's why 2007 is seen as such a shitty year.

>>39034174
It's crazy how the genie is out of the bottle and can't ever be put back. If that same video was shot today the manager would be cussing them out telling them not to film and the guy would either not engage at all or be shoving the camera out of his hand and aggressively asking him why he's filming. Even if you lose the cell-phone and internet you'd still be just a fool in a world of zombies.

Reminds me of crazy people in the park that try and engage and people just stare at their phones and ignore.

>>39034399
That's the worst part.
There's no way to fix it. Sure you can cut out all social media and keep your phone in your pocket but then you're just alone in a crowded room.
This is why I wear headphones around now.

>>39034454
I feel like even the cell-phone in the pocket, no social media is an issue. You're always with it, always on call. People expect you to be available all day, and wonder why you didn't respond to their call if you're not. If you and your buddy were going to meet at a certain place at a certain time, after one of you left the house there were no updates about where you are (save for a phone booth), delays, changes of plan, you had to roll with it.

A two hour call with a girl was probably your only chance to talk to her and it was at the end of the day, the call was of substance because you hadn't been in contact for a day or two. Now women expect men to be on the line for three or four hours every day, even if it's just dead silence. They get mad when you don't respond to every message, even if there's nothing to say. They expect an eternal conversation. It's maddening.

>>39034372
>>39034399
>>39034454
People are afraid of being photographed next to ugly people. You used to not have internet-connected cameras on every single person and now they are everywhere and if you don't broadcast your life people will judge you for it

I am 23 years old and even though I wasn't around for before the 90's I knew/know theres something gone very wrong with my generation. Real life has almost been subverted by the virtual world, lain is coming true

Anyway people are much more concerned with their internet points than the real waking world. people go to events and places for the instagram pics and likes versus the real experience, they avoid ugly and poorly dressed people in case they god forbid get photographed next to them and tagged on facebook so roastes can think "so.. those are his/her friends that shows something" in some subconscious way

Stuff I did pre-internet:
-Play video games.
-Read books, comic books, magazines, etc.
-Watch TV.
-Masturbate to whatever was available (magazines, newspaper ads, photos, sometimes I'd steal my dad's porn mags) or use my imagination.
-Listen to music.

what about pre-tv robots

>>39034399

there used to be this guy called Surveillance Man, he was kind of weird, but he did these videos where he just stood around with a camera a few years ago, and people would become super angry, start threatening to beat him, chasing him down the streets and shit

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


If you tried to do that 7-11 thing now, the customers would all threaten to attack you within a few minutes, the manager would throw you out, and the cops would be there to arrest you for some weird shit

>>39034606

Ham radio. Train sets. Books.

Also the proverbial hermit living out innawoods or in a cave on the side of a mountain isn't without basis.

>>39034821
>hermit living out innawoods
god i wish it wasnt so hard to actually live like that

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>>39034746
>Sir, can you please stop recording?
>Sir, I already asked you to stop
>CALL 911

>>39034540
I wouldn't know, nobody ever calls.
The only people who contact me on my phone are my parents and maybe a friend. But I have no trouble ignoring it and responding later.
But every time I go out I'm the only one not looking at my phone.
I just stare out the bus window, or sit back and people watch at the cafe.

>>39033564
That sounds a hell of a lot better than how some people end up these days.

>>39033750
>play harp or trumpet
>write rambling monologues on big chief tablets
>???

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>>39035057
Anon...

When I'm on my phone I'm often reading Wikipedia or checking stock prices. Why is this an issue? It's more productive than staring at a dirty window

This kinda blew my mind anon. Something about it seems kinda comfy tbqh.

I just realized I have not spoke to another human in person for a week, but I have had the illusion of having company because of settings like this site.

Pre internet, I would have just spent the last 7 days in a room. I may as well have been stranded on an island.

Its a pretty weird thought.

>>39035954
You would have to go out or talk to people on the phone if you wanted anything pre smartphone era. There was no online food/grocery delivery and you had to pay your bills in person or over the phone. Even the most non social person would learn to be a little less weird because social interaction was a necessity.

>>39033437
we were outcasts thinking there are no others like us, but now, thanks to r9k we can settle for other robots' dicks since it's the only sex we'll ever have.

No clue.
Internet popularization came right when I hit my teens.(2002+)

I don't count my childhood because I was 'normal' then, as in, I had friends and such who I hung out with and did things with. I figure everyone's childhood was like that.

>>39035954
>Pre internet, I would have just spent the last 7 days in a room
PreInternet you would've had friends, because you would have been social.

The internet made it easy for us to substitute real social interactions with online ones.

>>39033437
Commit suicide. Why do you think the autism and mental illness rates are going up?

>>39036163
Such a fucking normalfaggot. People read books all day if introverted you idiot.

>>39036139
Nah.
I was normal up until about age 7. Then came the social rejection. I lived in denial or rather wasn't really aware how weird I truly was.
I didn't really have a frame of reference for normal, so how could I know, ya know?
But looking back I was a robot right outta the gate. It just took some time for other kids to realize how autistic I was.

>>39034746
>people would become super angry, start threatening to beat him
Well yeah, any rational person would think someone filming them has an ulterior motive(and not a good one) so its normal to be enraged/disgusted.

If you saw some dude standing outside just silently recording you from inside your house, would you just shrug your shoulders and continue posting?

>>39036204
Not in their house you fucking sperg.
Just out and about like in the videos posted up there.

>>39036221
Same shit, you're minding your own business and someone decides to monitor you like a hawk. Its weird

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>>39033437

I grew up with internet. Even if it was shitty early 1990s internet.

I remember watching my dad excitedly point out shit on the screen in the early 90s but idgaf cuz i had nintendo so he'd always try to lure me back to the monitor saying "your game's coming kid"... and then we just got random games out of nowhere

He taught me the cd.., dir, dir/p commands for MS-DOS

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

^literally my first PC game, I was either 3 or 4 when I played this. Prince of Persia was also awesome for early 90s PC games

>>39036139
>Internet popularization came right when I hit my teens.(2002+)

I don't what country you're in

Internet went mainstream in the USA in 1995 with Yahoo

>>39036204


instinctively you would go ask what they are doing. But , his videos and the internet freak out vids taught me.

IF you suspect you are being trapped in some kind of attempted viral video BS. to walk off if at all possible, saying and doing nothing. If you cant leave for some reason, like you are at your job, stay as far off from the camera as you can, and not speak or make any facial expressions. These tend to be the most boring, and least likely to get used.

>>39036328
I'm talking about when social media and normies got ahold of it. I'd actually probably place it at 2005

>>39034746
to be fair id honestly start swinging as well

he'd be shot if it was around my local area lol

>>39034746
>2 guys having dramatic chat
>1 guy looks up
>guy:are you filming us?
>film:yea
>guy:why?
>film:y not
>film:calm down

top fucking kek

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Played with my train set
Played with my ZX Spectrum
Masturbate to porno mags

>tfw born in 1978

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I just read books and played vidya.

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>>39033634
But now you can
>shop
>work
>entertain
>learn
from home

There are many factors to consider though (political landscape, rate of transfer of news/information etc) though I do have grass-is-greener syndrome thinking about the time the internet and 9/11

>>39033437
They were either shut-ins who wrote novels or letters a lot to famous people or they commited suicide.

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I GO TO MY CAVE AND DIGGY DIGGY HOLE

>>39034746
Surveillance man is distracting classrooms and shit. He isn't just standing out in public. I don't blame the teachers that kick him out.

>>39033437
Dungeons and Dragons, most likely.

>>39034746
He isn't just standing around with a camera, he seems to be directly filming people. If you don't understand why people would be uncomfortable or get angry I don't know what to tell you.

>>39033634
>it was so easy to get a job, you had to be literally retarded, i mean actually mentally retarded to not be able to work, and even then you might have a job.


f-fuck how do i go back

>>39034104
Okay about that lots of people still used public chat in Halo 3. Halo 5 is a different story though no one talks in that game

>>39033437
Read fantasy novels, read comics, if they were really, severely autistic they went to the trouble of getting some of the few translated mangas available.
Then proceed to write their own D&D module, realizing too late that they have no friends to play it with.

>>39033437
Tv and alcohol

>>39035119
Does it really?
Things have not changed too much.

>>39033465
THICC as fuck would marry.

>>39035954
>I just realized I have not spoke to another human in person for a week, but I have had the illusion of having company because of settings like this site.
>but I have had the illusion of having company because of settings like this site.

Fucking this so much.