who remembers what it was like before internet
17-04-2009, 06:25 PM
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who remembers what it was like before internet
i mean, you had to go to the shops to buy stuff
looking at cars for sale meant, newsagents autotrader, mags etc etc..
cant think what else, must be shed loads of stuff...
imagine no internet anymore from say today
hehe
looking at cars for sale meant, newsagents autotrader, mags etc etc..
cant think what else, must be shed loads of stuff...
imagine no internet anymore from say today
hehe
17-04-2009, 06:37 PM
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i had a social life before the internet
i used to go bmxing in the evenings, or just go to a mates and chill on the playstation with a few cans and gran turismo 2
now i sit on the comp for hours on end chatting to people whoi i've never and will never meet !
madness
i used to go bmxing in the evenings, or just go to a mates and chill on the playstation with a few cans and gran turismo 2
now i sit on the comp for hours on end chatting to people whoi i've never and will never meet !
madness
17-04-2009, 06:43 PM
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i didnt start using the internet until late 2005. i still dont trust it with my details to shop online since i seen how easy it is for my mate to get folks details.
i still prefer getting of my fat arse and going to the real shops.
i use it for porn, cars and keeping in touch with my dad in australia.
i still prefer getting of my fat arse and going to the real shops.
i use it for porn, cars and keeping in touch with my dad in australia.
17-04-2009, 07:03 PM
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I remember when I started working on mags about 12 years ago, and only the Editor was allowed to have the internet! We spent all day on the phone, and had to take all the pictures we wanted to use (none of this online picture libraries nonsense!). We then had to wait for three days for them to turn the film into color trannies, then get a designer to scan them in, then have them scanned in again on a big drum scanner! Now we just jump online, type in a few words, grab a pic and it's done!
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17-04-2009, 07:18 PM
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17-04-2009, 08:02 PM
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i remember being at work in the mid - late 90's and overhearing our geeky IT man talking about this world wide web and me thinking it was all bollocks and would never catch on... LOL
17-04-2009, 08:05 PM
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Porn meant a ruck of adolescent lads huddled round an old copy of Razzle which your mate had hidden under a bush and was rain soaked, but was still the most exciting thing you've ever seen when you're 12yrs old.
So yeah, internet = porn.
So yeah, internet = porn.
17-04-2009, 08:07 PM
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I remember my first ever e-mail address was something like 289624632786596754687625@compuserve.com or something like that!
And used to have to type in numerical codes for most websites insteas of www.whatever.org etc
1994 we got the internet, and very few people we knew got it until a few good years later. In those days it took an absolute age to load up each page, I'm talking several minutes for the most simple of pages! And it cost a ridiculous amount per minute! Thank fook things have progressed pretty quickly!
And used to have to type in numerical codes for most websites insteas of www.whatever.org etc
1994 we got the internet, and very few people we knew got it until a few good years later. In those days it took an absolute age to load up each page, I'm talking several minutes for the most simple of pages! And it cost a ridiculous amount per minute! Thank fook things have progressed pretty quickly!
17-04-2009, 09:02 PM
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I remember my first ever e-mail address was something like 289624632786596754687625@compuserve.com or something like that!
And used to have to type in numerical codes for most websites insteas of www.whatever.org etc
1994 we got the internet, and very few people we knew got it until a few good years later. In those days it took an absolute age to load up each page, I'm talking several minutes for the most simple of pages! And it cost a ridiculous amount per minute! Thank fook things have progressed pretty quickly!
And used to have to type in numerical codes for most websites insteas of www.whatever.org etc
1994 we got the internet, and very few people we knew got it until a few good years later. In those days it took an absolute age to load up each page, I'm talking several minutes for the most simple of pages! And it cost a ridiculous amount per minute! Thank fook things have progressed pretty quickly!
OMG compuserve
I remember that!! U used to have to pay them but still pay for the phone call if i remember right?! most of my mates had 9600 modems so i made my mum buy a 14000 for me to fit, must have been 1995/96 time remember it taking about 3mins to download pics too so took ages to download a new pic to wank over, i mean look at
I used 2 go on BBS's too!!! used to be the in thing before the net took off lol, used 2 be good for file sharing and was able to 'chat' on some!!
Who used to play the original doom out of interest on a landline link up?! classic
17-04-2009, 09:09 PM
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i've only had internet since 2002'ish
its the same as mobile phones; i dont know how i used to get by. used to have to ring up your mates on there home phone!
i do remember our home telephone number STD code being 0793 then 5 digits
ahhh the joys of being born in 1980
its the same as mobile phones; i dont know how i used to get by. used to have to ring up your mates on there home phone!
i do remember our home telephone number STD code being 0793 then 5 digits
ahhh the joys of being born in 1980
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17-04-2009, 09:12 PM
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The internet is brilliant, I don't think I could survive without it.
Porn for me back then was Tutti Frutti on Sky round my mates house.
Porn for me back then was Tutti Frutti on Sky round my mates house.
17-04-2009, 09:13 PM
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It is just mad to think about not having the net and mobiles 
remember my dad buying a Ł1700 time pc, and having a 9.6k modem built in which was mega special
phone bill cost a fair bit,
then got a 28k modem, think it was 3p per min in the day and 1p after 6pm, got doom then and the online play was shocking, used to think this will never catch on
then 56k, which was mega quick about the time of the twin speed cd rom
got my 1st mobile in 94/5 was 14! no pay as you go crap, one2one contract in my mums name ( had a good paying weekend job ), free eves and wkd, but only worked inside the m25
remember my dad buying a Ł1700 time pc, and having a 9.6k modem built in which was mega special
phone bill cost a fair bit,
then got a 28k modem, think it was 3p per min in the day and 1p after 6pm, got doom then and the online play was shocking, used to think this will never catch on
then 56k, which was mega quick
about the time of the twin speed cd rom got my 1st mobile in 94/5 was 14! no pay as you go crap, one2one contract in my mums name ( had a good paying weekend job ), free eves and wkd, but only worked inside the m25
17-04-2009, 09:52 PM
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up by my old man in skeggy they had to have security go with the paer van on a Friday as it kept getting done over for the autotrader asit was the biggest source of cars before the tinternet!!
Absolute truth!! people must have wanted to see what cars were in pretty desperate so that they could be first in to snap up the bargains lol!!
Absolute truth!! people must have wanted to see what cars were in pretty desperate so that they could be first in to snap up the bargains lol!!
17-04-2009, 09:57 PM
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I was on BBS systems trading warez around the world for free by blue boxing (anyone remember roxbox and chicken dialler?)
AWESOME days, and glad I was a part of the "scene" on the Amiga
AWESOME days, and glad I was a part of the "scene" on the Amiga
and my mega drive with streets of rage!
17-04-2009, 10:06 PM
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I loved life before it, even tho i only started using it 2004ish.
I had my rs turbo and couldnt give a flying fuck about anything and it didnt miss a beat, i used to change the oil every 2 month for Ł6.50 vauxhall stuff and it sounded great, never a worry in the world, that all went right down hill once i started using forums.
Finding a car to buy was exciting, when you went to look at one down south from out the fast ford mag you knew if you didnt like it you could find the local autotrader and get something anyway, probably better.
Internet is lazy and full of fakes. its a shithole really but we still use it everyday FAITHFULLY, its like smoking you no you were better of without it but you cant stop now.
It has its very usefull points but i much prefered old skool, like when we didnt have mobile phones and yet there was still 10 to 15 of us every night without fail kicking a water logged mitre delta about
Children are fucked tbo, their never going to no the good life, just the fake bebo, facebook, msn shite you have on the web
Im glad i at least tasted the "real" life for most of my growing up
To fuck with the internet, im away to watch a 70`s porn on my vhs
I had my rs turbo and couldnt give a flying fuck about anything and it didnt miss a beat, i used to change the oil every 2 month for Ł6.50 vauxhall stuff and it sounded great, never a worry in the world, that all went right down hill once i started using forums.
Finding a car to buy was exciting, when you went to look at one down south from out the fast ford mag you knew if you didnt like it you could find the local autotrader and get something anyway, probably better.
Internet is lazy and full of fakes. its a shithole really but we still use it everyday FAITHFULLY, its like smoking you no you were better of without it but you cant stop now.
It has its very usefull points but i much prefered old skool, like when we didnt have mobile phones and yet there was still 10 to 15 of us every night without fail kicking a water logged mitre delta about
Children are fucked tbo, their never going to no the good life, just the fake bebo, facebook, msn shite you have on the web
Im glad i at least tasted the "real" life for most of my growing up
To fuck with the internet, im away to watch a 70`s porn on my vhs
17-04-2009, 10:08 PM
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Well this is going back even further! A couple of us clubbed our paper round money and brought a Prisim VTX2000, iirc, modem for the ZX Spectrum and we used to dial up Prestel which was the BT owned BBS to view what you could then get on teletext!
The modem was over Ł100 and the phone cost about 10p/m plus the subs to Prestel!!
Plus with interface one you could have a LAN game! This was back in 83-84 and I think the only game we had that could be played over a lan was Delta Wing
Might have been Micronet, bugger, memory not as good as it was.......
Copying games tape to tape on the good old twin deck amstrad
The modem was over Ł100 and the phone cost about 10p/m plus the subs to Prestel!!
Plus with interface one you could have a LAN game! This was back in 83-84 and I think the only game we had that could be played over a lan was Delta Wing
Might have been Micronet, bugger, memory not as good as it was.......
Copying games tape to tape on the good old twin deck amstrad
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17-04-2009, 10:14 PM
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I paid Ł80 for my 1st modem, 2400 baud, max of 240 BYTES per second
Then my mates dad bought him a 14400 baud, and to see over 1k a second download was like
Then my mates dad bought him a 14400 baud, and to see over 1k a second download was like
17-04-2009, 11:11 PM
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We used to play Bamboozal on teletext for games
We used to go exploring down the local river (Like on 28 days later website), go on trains all over the place and go on bike rides, etc with me mates. Being envious of me mate as they had Sky and watched the Simpsons @ 6pm leaviing us bored outside
We was never at home, always wandering about somewhere getting into trouble with the Police and escorted home Now I would receive an Asbo
My first phone was 1992-93 iirc and made by Amstrad. Could dial calls and nothing more with the green screen Even adding people in contacts took 10-15mins
My Dad brought me an Acorn PC. Was fucking useless as there was no software available for it that we could afford. Printed everything on the dot matrix in black and white. Sounded like a machine gun
We used to go exploring down the local river (Like on 28 days later website), go on trains all over the place and go on bike rides, etc with me mates. Being envious of me mate as they had Sky and watched the Simpsons @ 6pm leaviing us bored outside
We was never at home, always wandering about somewhere getting into trouble with the Police and escorted home
Now I would receive an Asbo My first phone was 1992-93 iirc and made by Amstrad. Could dial calls and nothing more with the green screen
Even adding people in contacts took 10-15mins My Dad brought me an Acorn PC. Was fucking useless as there was no software available for it that we could afford. Printed everything on the dot matrix in black and white. Sounded like a machine gun
17-04-2009, 11:14 PM
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I loved life before it, even tho i only started using it 2004ish.
I had my rs turbo and couldnt give a flying fuck about anything and it didnt miss a beat, i used to change the oil every 2 month for Ł6.50 vauxhall stuff and it sounded great, never a worry in the world, that all went right down hill once i started using forums.
Finding a car to buy was exciting, when you went to look at one down south from out the fast ford mag you knew if you didnt like it you could find the local autotrader and get something anyway, probably better.
Internet is lazy and full of fakes. its a shithole really but we still use it everyday FAITHFULLY, its like smoking you no you were better of without it but you cant stop now.
It has its very usefull points but i much prefered old skool, like when we didnt have mobile phones and yet there was still 10 to 15 of us every night without fail kicking a water logged mitre delta about
Children are fucked tbo, their never going to no the good life, just the fake bebo, facebook, msn shite you have on the web
Im glad i at least tasted the "real" life for most of my growing up
To fuck with the internet, im away to watch a 70`s porn on my vhs
I had my rs turbo and couldnt give a flying fuck about anything and it didnt miss a beat, i used to change the oil every 2 month for Ł6.50 vauxhall stuff and it sounded great, never a worry in the world, that all went right down hill once i started using forums.
Finding a car to buy was exciting, when you went to look at one down south from out the fast ford mag you knew if you didnt like it you could find the local autotrader and get something anyway, probably better.
Internet is lazy and full of fakes. its a shithole really but we still use it everyday FAITHFULLY, its like smoking you no you were better of without it but you cant stop now.
It has its very usefull points but i much prefered old skool, like when we didnt have mobile phones and yet there was still 10 to 15 of us every night without fail kicking a water logged mitre delta about
Children are fucked tbo, their never going to no the good life, just the fake bebo, facebook, msn shite you have on the web
Im glad i at least tasted the "real" life for most of my growing up
To fuck with the internet, im away to watch a 70`s porn on my vhs
17-04-2009, 11:49 PM
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I can just remember life before the net - seems very carefree thinking back now...
I can also remember struggling to decide which was more rewarding for my budget on my first computer.
Did i get Windows 95 but only 4MB RAM or keep on Windows 3.11 with 8MB RAM
I can also remember struggling to decide which was more rewarding for my budget on my first computer.
Did i get Windows 95 but only 4MB RAM or keep on Windows 3.11 with 8MB RAM
18-04-2009, 12:11 AM
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ooooooh bamboozle was the bollox then i used to flick on sport on teletext and see what the latest chelsea news was on the 0900 number flashy thing on it. never called it just wanted to see what the latest headline was like Gullet signs for chelsea lol.
tbh i love the internet its great for info but fuck me i hate it too. i cant say how much ive wasted on here but its a lot a lot lot lot
then i used to flick on sport on teletext and see what the latest chelsea news was on the 0900 number flashy thing on it. never called it just wanted to see what the latest headline was like Gullet signs for chelsea lol.tbh i love the internet its great for info but fuck me i hate it too. i cant say how much ive wasted on here but its a lot a lot lot lot
