Those under 25: how well do you remember your life before the internet?

[Yoshemo]

You think '99 was bad? I didn't get internet until 2007! before that my life was completely horrible and I was verging on suicide every other day. but now I'm happy c:

 

[Zeetchmen]

19, and the internet is my life so, yeah

 

[Hawgh]

There was a lot of capering, I also only played single player games.

 

[Flamezdudes]

I still remember a lot, i have a lot of fond memories. I only really became crazy addicted about 2 years ago, when i was 13.

 

[Shycte]

A lot. Didn't use it so much until I was like 12 or so.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

oh teh good ole days..i used to play nerf guns and hide and go seek, and also i would demolish my lego ships with my power ranger guys...damn good times..

but once i got internet (aol's shitty excuse for dial up) i sat my ass on aim all the time talkin to friends about dragonball z and pokemon, damn were we addicted to that stuff

 

[JimJamJahar]

I remember I had a lot more time on my hands. I only got it couple of years ago, anyway and it's changed my entire life. I'm 16, by the way

EDIT: I did have dial-up a few years back but my parents stopped it because it was too expensive. I barely ever got to use it anyway, incase anyone wanted to phone my parents

 

[Cpt Tacos n' Cheese]

Wait... what?
There was a time..... BEFORE the internet?

God that sounds awful.

Truthfully though I never really cared about the internet or what it was until about 4 years ago, when I started online gaming.

 

[Tsunimo]

I'm 15 and i can't remember my life before 2007 so....
i guess my opinion is kind of void in this case

 

[RandyPants]

I had dial up for a very long fucking time - I'd say about all of my childhood; I mean the parts I remember And when I was too young to care to about the Internet, I just obsessed over toy catalogs and Matchbox/Hot Wheels collections. Put simply, it was only when I moved country did I fully realize the joys of high speed internet.

Speaking of which, remember dial up connections? THEY WERE SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

Amen. It's amazing how now I take things like youtube and fast loading for granted instead of waiting six hours for a 2 minute video

*cough*andporn*cough*

 

[Hashime]

We didn't have a computer until I was 10, I didn't use the internet until I was about 12. That was 6(ish) years ago.

 

[Frankster]

I'm 24, had access to internet between ages 15-17, then went to boarding school and had internet again from ages 19 onwards.

Books were my main source of entertainment back then, also used to watch tv a lot more (barely do that now).

I use the internet a lot but I'd rather it was less prevalent. The Internet has changed people's morality and humour for the worse in a lot of cases, people now pay more to group consensus from peopel they've never met than to social norms around them and that's a bad thing.

Definitly agree with generic gamer here :\

 

[Le_Lisra]

Of course I'd be thrown if I didn't have any internet anymore.. a large chunk of my social life is being kept alive through the tubes, since I live abroad now.

But I remember the days without it very well. We got internet at home around 1999 or 2000.

 

[ninja555]

Baldur's Gate and Myst were most of what I remeber before the internet. Lego and playmobil were also with me then.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

I actively try to forget my past, not always out of bad experiences, I just don't want to remember.

 

[Klepa]

Life before the internet.. I was so young, that I didn't really need the whole thing. I had learned English from watching TV, and most other subjects in school were pretty much handled with common sense, and common knowledge. If I wanted to know about games, I read a magazine. If I wanted to know what's on TV, I read a magazine. If I wanted to know about anything else, I'd ask my parents.

When the internet came.. it was just a toy. Paying by the minute was expensive, and seeing as I was only allowed to use it about an hour a day, it was just an unreliable toy, almost like a gimmick, if my life was a game.

Once ADSL came however, and prices were monthly, my life was never the same. For the first year, I made sure to keep my download bandwith capped, so I'd be getting the maximum amount of movies, music and games possible. It's pretty much when I got the habit of not shutting my PC down at nights.

 

[TeH PizZa Guy]

I watched Disney cartoon movies, play with my train set and lego with my big brother, and play shitty education games on my computer (windows 95, ill never forget you you slow fart)

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Yeah, I remember playing a lot of Worms Armageddon, Red Alert 2, Age of Empires 2, and I think some NFS Underground. And GTA Vice City.
Good times.
Edit: And Halo. On the Xbox with cousins.
I think it all was good times because nothing beats playing in LAN or on a console against friends. I wonder where they all went...

 

[David_G]

14 here, and since my dad has been working with computers all his life, I've always had internet, though I remember it being dial up... God that sucked.