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People that grew up before the internet age, how was life different? (1 Viewer)

Henry Ford said:
For you lawyers out there:

there was a time when you could only do in depth research by going to the courthouse library, reading through books, and making copies of them.  

Which meant that if you had a big project to work on that you already understood the law on, you could play hooky for days pretending to be down at the courthouse. It’s not like they could call you on your cell phone. 
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At my first job, I worked on some older matters that had documents in the file that were typed out using carbon paper to make duplicate or triplicate copies. In some cases, the secretaries had made insertions or corrections in the margin or between the lines so as to avoid having to retype a 30 page document just to change a few sections.  That’s how we did it in undergrad. Spent days on end in the typewriter center typing out and re-typing papers. 

 
Jayrok said:
We had Dynamite Shack.  Had to put the sticks inside the shack with big plastic thumbs before it blew up.  What's not to like about that?  

There was a thread a few months ago where we reminisced about games in the 70/80s.  
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We played that. It was a sadistic game that probably left permanently increased stress levels in humans.

 
When we went on vacation we sent picture post cards because we couldn't take pics with our cameras and blast them out via social media..   we usually beat those postcards home too..

 
Cameras with film rolls.  Before digital cameras became mainstream, we took our young kids to Disney World and stayed on site.  Took the bus to Animal Kingdom and took pics on a roll of film, then headed over to Magic Kingdom or maybe Epcot.  I realized the film wasn't on the tracks properly in the camera and didn't advance (with the thumb lever) after each pic.  I was so upset about it, we took the bus back to Animal Kingdom and retraced our steps and took as many of the pics that I could remember.  Took quite awhile.  Felt like the Griswalds.  

I realized later that night that my camera (Minolta something) was broken internally and the track to advance the film was loose, not keeping the film securely on it, so the shot would take but the film would not advance.  So every picture taken that day was of nothing.  

The wife and kids still give me grief over that trip.  The digital camera was a great invention.  

 
Jayrok said:
Cameras with film rolls.  Before digital cameras became mainstream, we took our young kids to Disney World and stayed on site.  Took the bus to Animal Kingdom and took pics on a roll of film, then headed over to Magic Kingdom or maybe Epcot.  I realized the film wasn't on the tracks properly in the camera and didn't advance (with the thumb lever) after each pic.  I was so upset about it, we took the bus back to Animal Kingdom and retraced our steps and took as many of the pics that I could remember.  Took quite awhile.  Felt like the Griswalds.  

I realized later that night that my camera (Minolta something) was broken internally and the track to advance the film was loose, not keeping the film securely on it, so the shot would take but the film would not advance.  So every picture taken that day was of nothing.  

The wife and kids still give me grief over that trip.  The digital camera was a great invention.  
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I miss real film.  Don't get me wrong - seeing the picture instantly is awesome.  But there was something cool about picking up the developed pictures and seeing them for the first time.

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I miss real film.  Don't get me wrong - seeing the picture instantly is awesome.  But there was something cool about picking up the developed pictures and seeing them for the first time.
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Yes, picking up the envelope and going through them was always fun.  Thinking, oh yeah, I remember this moment.  I have a new grandson and trying to snap a shot of him with the perfect look on his face is a challenge, so with the digital phone camera you just snap a dozen or so quickly, then sort out/delete the bad ones and keep the one or two you're looking for.  Of course, never let the wife see all the photos because she'll insist you keep all of them!  And she complains when her iphone gives her the "full" message.  

 
DropKick said:
I might have had the "All Star Hockey" shown under the Professional.  Hey - who could afford $15.99?
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Mine never had the overhead scoreboard, but I did use airplane model paint to make the ice look like the old Boston Garden.

 
Ron Swanson said:
Those things are still a blast.  My nephew got one for Christmas last year and everyone loved it.
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I have mine still from when I was a kid. I set it up at Christmas for my kids every year

 
In my youth, I played "Around the World" in basketball often with siblings and friends. I still play it with my nephews. 

 
If I missed a mention I apologize.  But reading the old games part of this triggered an old, old memory.

I don't know how much money I blew away as a kid on the items mentioned below.  But I can assure you, I used as much of the little bit of money I managed to get into my possession to get 

Topp's Annual Football and Baseball Sticker Yearbook(s)

[Insert Christmas Story voice over guy voice]

Man o' man, it was that time of year again.  Billy and Timmy and I would run to Mr. Stanzoni's corner store like we did every day, but this day was special.  Yes, this day was the day that he would have the NFL player sticker books.  We would look in awe at the new sticker, wondering what favorite NFL gladiator would be on the package.  Timmy would slap me on the shoulder as he was staring at the new yearbook, getting my attention but not breaking his, as we looked at the all star player that was on this book.  Was it our favorite player?  Was it a New York Giant?

Getting that new fresh book and opening it to see the stickers we would have to get.  It was better than Christmas.  And then opening the stickers.  Peeling the paper thin sticker backs off of the stickers without bending them so that we could ever so gently get them on the page they were matched up to.  Oh, how the breeze seemed sweeter when you opened that first pack and Lawrence Taylor was right there already.  Billy would scream with joy as he showed us his Scott Brunner sticker - I got a Giant! - he would scream.  Timmy, our Cowboys fan that we still loved, would be in anguish, hoping that his favorite player would be in his pack, and if not, at least that blue star would be.

And then later on, buying more and more packs - hoping for the player you don't have and for duplicates to trade with others.  And then, you would get to the very last of the book.  Only one or two stickers left to complete the whole thing.  And you would suffer every day.  Dad, can I have fifty cents to get a new pack, I just need one more guy was the refrain heard through the neighborhood like a chorus of young men clinging to childhood not ready to let go and be pulled into responsibility.  And then, opening the pack only to be full of duplicates.  Timmy and Billy would be there every Saturday morning to play with their piles of unused stickers and we would all hope that if not us, at least one of us would complete the book.  Oh, the completed sticker book.  It was a joy to behold.  Each page heavy with the many stickers clinging to it.  Each page perfect in what we would later be told was really just something called OCD and ADHD because our need to have that complete page was not normal.

But it was.  It was to us.  The completed sticker book was a marvel to behold.  Friends would show off theirs if they had them.  You would try to make friends with the kid that you heard might have one just to see it.  

It's when everything was good.  And heroes were on stickers.

[/end Christmas Story voice over guy voice]

 
Probably already covered in here, but I'm planning a little side trip to Chicago for 3 days with my wife and older boys and I'm not only getting great suggestions and help from message board posters who live in or have been to Chicago, but I'm getting my tickets for baseball games, architect river cruises and mapping out my entire route/transit on the net.  It's wonderful!

But prior to that, I'm old enough to remember buying books on the cities/states I'd travel to, getting maps and calling friends or family who could help me out.  And then landing in a city, asking bartenders or servers where to go, what to see, what they like to do, etc.  I still do that to some extent, but with the internet, I already have an idea of my next steps in a new town.  

 
As we got a little older, the Sega Genesis came out. And man was that amazing with such an improvement in graphics.

I still think NHL '94 was one of the greatest games ever.

 
Jayrok said:
Yes, picking up the envelope and going through them was always fun.  Thinking, oh yeah, I remember this moment.  I have a new grandson and trying to snap a shot of him with the perfect look on his face is a challenge, so with the digital phone camera you just snap a dozen or so quickly, then sort out/delete the bad ones and keep the one or two you're looking for.  Of course, never let the wife see all the photos because she'll insist you keep all of them!  And she complains when her iphone gives her the "full" message.  
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My mother was of the last holdouts with a real film camera. She went to a family part where my at the time 3-ish year old niece (now 16) was there. She loved taking photos and immediately looking at the screen at the picture.

So she takes one with my mom's film camera, turns it over and has this odd look on her face. She walks over to my mom and points at the back and just says "Broken?" 

that's when I realized that the damn kid will never understand what film was like and how it was 100% a crap shoot with every click. 

 
Yankee23Fan said:
Instead of pulling them, can you maybe get various kinds and put them in some kind of colorful sparkled up wrapped thing and randomly open them revealing which surprise weed is in there?  Thanks.
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As long as it's just on their phone and they don't have to actually open anything with their hands. 

 
Back in my younger years, people left the keys in the ignition of their unlocked cars at night, and people didn't lock their house doors. 

 
simey said:
Back in my younger years, people left the keys in the ignition of their unlocked cars at night, and people didn't lock their house doors. 
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Yeah, this is certainly one of those truisms that makes us older people look like aliens to people these days.  In the summer the keys would be in the car all the time and the windows were open - even in the city.  There were several times as a kid we got into the wrong car at someplace because it was exactly the same on the outside.

 
simey said:
Back in my younger years, people left the keys in the ignition of their unlocked cars at night, and people didn't lock their house doors. 
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Yankee23Fan said:
Yeah, this is certainly one of those truisms that makes us older people look like aliens to people these days.  In the summer the keys would be in the car all the time and the windows were open - even in the city.  There were several times as a kid we got into the wrong car at someplace because it was exactly the same on the outside.
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I don't live in the city but I often don't lock doors and my wife's whole family leaves their keys in their cars. It's still very safe (depending on location).

 
Nipsey said:
Any mention of Cliffs Notes yet? If you had a book report due and didn't read the book, Cliffs Notes were a must. What do kids do now? Just go on the Wikipedia page and read the synopsis? Must be so easy. After the VCR came out you could rent the movie if you wanted but that usually backfired. I had to read Oliver Twist and give a book report. Blew it off until the last minute and rented the movie Oliver! which of course is the musical based on the novel. Got up to give my report in front of the class: "the name of the book I read is Oliver. Oliver was..." Teacher stopped my right there. "The name of the book is Oliver Twist." So busted right out of the gate.
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My 7th grade teacher had us reading the classics - Lorna Dune for the girls; mostly Kidnapped or Treasure Island for the boys. After we read the book, she had the old comic books based on the books which we also read after giving our book report. She had the books - along with a dictionary - on every desk. I burned through Kidnapped, TI, Tom Sawyer, etc. during music class because I was bored stiff. :lol:  

 
simey said:
Back in my younger years, people left the keys in the ignition of their unlocked cars at night, and people didn't lock their house doors. 
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Yankee23Fan said:
Yeah, this is certainly one of those truisms that makes us older people look like aliens to people these days.  In the summer the keys would be in the car all the time and the windows were open - even in the city.  There were several times as a kid we got into the wrong car at someplace because it was exactly the same on the outside.
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Ilov80s said:
I don't live in the city but I often don't lock doors and my wife's whole family leaves their keys in their cars. It's still very safe (depending on location).
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I pray for all of your souls.  

 
Ilov80s said:
I don't live in the city but I often don't lock doors and my wife's whole family leaves their keys in their cars. It's still very safe (depending on location).
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I had my wallet stolen from the glove compartment of my unlocked car at a church while i played basketball outside like 50 feet away. The police station is literally* 5 blocks down the street and this was in one of the wealthiest areas in Wisconsin. 

Saw the guy climb out of my buddy's car and we ran after him. He hopped into a car and away they went. 

I became a door locker after that and realized no place is "safe."

*suck it fellow peevers

 
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In college (early 80s), people were still typing out term papers on typewriters.  I was a computer science geek so I had access to computers to type mine in.  Used the WordPerfect word processor which came with a surprisingly good spell checker.  This was huge... especially for me as a notoriously bad speller. I remember doing a speech for one of my classes on it and when I talked about the spell checker, others in the class were in awe. 

I was actually able to parlay this into some serious brown-nosed grades by introducing my English and Communication class professors to the technology.  Pretty messed up that I knew it before them... but WordPerfect (and WordStar) were brand new so I was a perceived expert :D  

 
My grandfather (a huge gadget guy; loved the Sharper Image) got me this bike radio when I was 6 for my birthday.  Was perhaps one of the greatest gifts of my life.  My bike was pretty crappy, but this gave it instant credibility and I became the king as we listened to Rangers games in while biking through Dallas alleys, hunting for discarded treasure and later, discarded smut mags.  Alley hunting is something I've had to explain to my boys as we don't have alleys in Portland. 

 
General Malaise said:
My grandfather (a huge gadget guy; loved the Sharper Image) got me this bike radio when I was 6 for my birthday.  Was perhaps one of the greatest gifts of my life.  My bike was pretty crappy, but this gave it instant credibility and I became the king as we listened to Rangers games in while biking through Dallas alleys, hunting for discarded treasure and later, discarded smut mags.  Alley hunting is something I've had to explain to my boys as we don't have alleys in Portland. 
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I remember finding a nice (but broken) watch in an alley between my street and the one just to the south of us. Wind it up and the hands would spin for a couple minutes. We were easy to amuse.

 
parasaurolophus said:
I had my wallet stolen from the glove compartment of my unlocked car at a church while i played basketball outside like 50 feet away. The police station is literally* 5 blocks down the street and this was in one of the wealthiest areas in Wisconsin. 

Saw the guy climb out of my buddy's car and we ran after him. He hopped into a car and away they went. 

I became a door locker after that and realized no place is "safe."

*suck it fellow peevers
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You dont hide wallets in the glove. 

You hide it in the backseat, inside a McDonald's bag.  I have a seat cushion for my lower back. I usually tuck it behind there if need be but never the glove 

#doorunlocker

 
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