Remember before the internet?

When you ask to ask for directions places, buy medicore albums for good songs, and solicit sex from only your friends?

I think the digital revolution and the internet might be the most important things to ever happen. I didn't even know I needed male enhancment before. I thought I was a good man.

 

The internet destroyed you life eh?

You can probably google for support groups...

 

Some people still have dial up broadband... thats like not being online at all.. wow

 

i never had hobbies or a life. i never liked my neighbors and was too shy to talk to them (not anymore). my kids are on me constantly and my husband is my best friend. for people like me, who never knew how to be myself, when people judged me PURELY by my appearance, who were too scared to talk above a whisper and EVER speak our mind's fully and completely, the internet has been a grand awakening. especially the hipforums. this place has changed me so much i can't even describe it. i may be a pain in the ass sometimes, but DAMN, it's my right as a person. i'm sick of being a quiet, shy, scared little martyr. i learned to be me here, where people can like me or hate me, and it's OKAY. because we can all still show up here and get along just fine. fights don't actually mean as much as i thought they did, if you can get the fuck over it. and i've searched my entire life for "my people." i found them! i'm so freaking excited about it i can't get over it. and hell, most of them are people i fought with hardcore once upon a time. i LOVE that.

 

Well yeah. I'm very much the same in real life. But I am often introspected.

I'm more talkative online. To people I don't know as well at least. Usually I let strangers do the talking.

 

I'm as much a smart ass in real life though.

 

Or wisenheimer if you prefer.

 

nope, im too young to remember...

 

What's the internet?

 

Me too. I'm myself online, at work and with friends. I detest being fake.

 

I'm pretending to be fake.

 

Life was totally different before the Internet, people spent most of there time outdoors back then, I never imagine that we would be this far along looking back 25 years ago.

 

I was 11 when we didn't have the internet...so I played. I went from childhood to internet, how crazy...

 

Very vaguely every girl i've met online has either been totally insane or an uggo. and don't get me started on craigslist. Now it's like human partnership being bought is a social norm. i read a report the other day in the times that claimed living alone is worse for u than smoking.



Don't you need somebody to love

 

Shit...does anyone remember before BBS's, MUD's & MOO's? IRC? When Gopher was your friend?

3270 ring any bells? VT220?

Ahh the old days...

 

What? That sounds crazy.

 

lol @CorpFreak....


I prefer to read a monitor rather than curling up with a book which makes no sense....I talk with my fingers to avatars who I actually develop important realtionships with.... And I play scrabble with a beer at the desk instead of at the kitchen table.... I used to watch Survivor, make bets on it and have hockey parties with all friends and family... now I hardly watch TV unless I'm too tired and have to be horizontal, I must say "Check that out on YouTUbe" at least 4X a day!

 

Getting an internet connection is like being handed a bag of crack and a cell number.

 

and 1,200 bucks?!

 

I was thinking the other day how you had to give the babysitter the restaurant name and number when you went out. Remember answering machines!? haha

I remember looking through dictionary and encyclopedias to do homework. I also remember spending hours on a long distance call talking to a friend and getting screamed at over the phone bill-and now you can chat online for free.

I read a thing how internet dwindles childrens social skills. Chatting online is worse for them than chatting on the phone-when it comes to social skills in young children. I believe it.