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I take "internet" as being a metaphor for technology in general. There are so many ways in which the "convenience" of technologies has exacted a tremendous cost in our humanity, it's hard to know where to begin. If you're older than, say, 50 you know exactly what I mean.
I was born in 1972 grew up in the 1980s loved every thing about it people had more respect for each other.Loved the music loved the movie awesome soundtracks totally agree the Internet has changed people loved the video 😊
I don't know about other libraries. but growing up the main library in my city had a phone number you can call and ask pretty much any question and they would look it up for you and give an answer
I hope the net goes down one day…..
The net has destroyed the world I liked life much more before
internet isn't the problem.
cellphones.
The reality is that if I had to go back, I wouldn't.
Going into town was a special occasion.
We need to go back to those days.
having spent my teenage years pre internet, phones were our internet. i was talking to my friends on the phone all the time. constantly getting sh*t for tying up the phone. we brought about the teen phone era. a second phone a little cheaper than the main line.
Please take me back to 1980’s America 😞
🌊🌊I was born in the 80's! Not many folks had internet back then, but life was way better. People were actually nicer too😎 so glad we saw the last of those days. Now it's like zombie land haha🌊🌊
You also only used to get your 'Adult Materials' from magazines and video stores. Lol.
I still like paper maps because you can see the big picture without names of the roads and highways disappearing when you zoom out on the screen.
We’re done
I grew up in the the 1990s but I was from a poor family so I never had a computer or cell phone so I feel like I'm from the 70s
I feel old and miss being a teenager… like, my forty-something years ago teenage self. This old crap is starting to suck!
The only problem was growing up was finding a payphone and exact change. No privacy with landline home phone. My mother would pick up a phone in another room to listen.
Miss those times. The 70s were the best
I do remember those days! But I REALLY love the narrator's biting inflections and humour!
About letters, I used to write and receive big, fat letters from my to and from my friends. I knew they were sizeable when the weight of several sheets of paper meant I had to use more than one stamp!
I remember when you could sit on the hood of a car and it didn’t collapse
The internet is not the problem, it's the mobile phones that are the problem. If there were no mobile phones, people would interact with each other more often, instead of looking at the screen every minute. You know I'm right.
The best of times & I miss those days immensely & would buy the 1st ticket on the Time Machine & go back in a heartbeat
I don't think the internet is all bad as far as the information that it can provide, the worst thing is social media, it has given so many people the wrong impression that they are something that they simply are not. I really feel sorry for people who don't know life without it.
It's better for me. As an introverted, super shy kid, I found that the keyboard freed me from it and I could say what I felt and meant without tripping over my tongue. I do at least half my shopping on Amazon, and searching for =anything= is easier online. Then again, I had many more friends before the Internet. That was when neighbors talked to each other. Not much of that now.
I think it is important, no matter what era you live in, to learn to adapt, appreciate and cherish, and to keep an open and positive heart.
Darts lol, how did we not die? Makes a Christmas Story BB gun, look like nothing,people now days many consider them weapons of death,and yup, also had that, we almost all did. Very sad,kids will never know the magic of a Drive In,and Drive In Pizza/Hot Dogs and getting to know all the people in the snack shop,many Soul mates were found their.
Our google was Encyclopedia Brittanica….
Reading the comments… want to toss this computer in the trash so bad now. Must concur: life was better before.
When you had to go to the variety store to buy a porno magazine and hope to hell someone you know doesn't walk in
My son doesn't believe me that "YAHOO" is an American scream of joy, mostly from hill billy folks back in the day. He just thinks is the on line web page.
It's not the internet …… It's the Cell Phone Addiction.
Ditch the Smart Phone, leave it at home.
LOL, that kid at 5:53. I didn't need glasses until I was in my early teens. But, long before that I was a bookworm. My mom snapped several pictures of the young, nerdy, me. The folks had the wisdom to buy a set of Compton's Encyclopedias about the time my baby sister was born. But, I didn't use it just as a reference, I would sit down and just read entry after entry, bouncing from one topic to another related one. When I think about it, that was kind of like the web surfing I do today.
I believe the use of the word troll on the internet was derived from trolling or trawling, forms of fishing. Trolls fish for reactions in chat rooms, and the easiest reactions to get are negative. It was just a happy coincidence that they could be likened to the mishapen trolls of lore. Blasted troublemakers, heh, I can think of worse names for them.
Born in the mid 70s, child of the 80s. I remember going out with my friends on my bike on a Saturday morning and not coming home til supper time. All the adventures we had back in the day! You just don’t see that anymore.
A 67 year old remembering being young. At 10, I would ride my bike all over San Francisco. By 13 me and my friends would to the fisherman's warf to pick up girls. Then came high-school and party's. Then at 16 I bought a car and drive to Santa Cruz, sometimes with my girlfriend and sometimes to pickup girls. Yes, live was better.
Remember when the family would go out to eat, it was always a special occasion, everyone laughing and talking, just enjoying each other’s company. Today, every time I go out to eat I’ll set there and watch the room and it’s absolutely pathetic. Mom and dad and the kids all have their faces buried in that stupid phone, it’s unbelievable and sad. If that’s all you’re going to do you might as well stay home.
Social media has destroyed American women.
American women had become Facebook zombies.
the internet is reality reality is the internet how people act on the internet (being alone) is how people act in public
I lived during that time. I wanted Interned to become available. Now I want I was not born at all.
Life is easier with the internet. But life was better before the internet.
No one is forcing you to use social media. If you don't like social media, delete your accounts. I use YouTube, which is social media – but that's it for me.
you didnt go back far enough for me pal
Can we please go back????? How I miss those days! I grew up in the ‘70’s and graduated high school in 1984. We had the world at our fingertips and everything made sense. In 2023, nothing makes sense anymore: doing the right thing guarantees you nothing and doing the wrong thing gets you a life of leisure courtesy of the hard working taxpayers whose standard of living has been decimated. We were too naive back then and too compassionate. The whole generation got ripped off.
The internet, and specifically "social media" is largely responsible for the absolute decay of the human condition.
Even in the summer,most days we saw NO ONE ON THE STREET OUTSIDE EVEN ON BEAUTIFUL DAYS,AND THE PUBLIC POOL HAD VERY FEW KIDS. ESPECIALLY OLDER KIDS. WEIRD VERY WEIRD.
It's always great to look back, but life is ever-changing.
I remember old folks back in the early 70's saying that the Television was ruining our country. (They may have been onto something..Lol).
That said, I really miss those pre-internet times.
If you met a cute girl at school, you would set up a time to get a phone call from her at 5:15 PM because that was right before her parents got home from work, and her brother was still at football practice. (No one to listen in on your conversation.) The anticipation of it was intoxicating, and we would go over what we might say a million times in our head. Only to just laugh and agree with whatever she said. 🤣
And I will always believe that one-on-one conversations (in person, or on the phone) and not internet opinions made us all a bit stronger in our beliefs.
(Remember the horrid thoughts of "What if someone is tapping the phone??"). We didn't really believe our phones were tapped, but the tech was there.
And now…………. ?????
Thanks for the Video (and the memories) 😀
I remember gas 0.30 a gallon then they had gas company gas wars and drop the price to 0.25 and give you a gift ball or some toy to boot.