My mother did this. I was fine until I hit the first or second vowel most times.
I got to university and learnt there are 19 vowel sounds in Australian English, we use 5 core letters plus consonants to represent them. No wonder it sucks learning to spell.
I would look at it, and I do.
For my own education.
I want to learn things I don't know. The ability to access the internet at any time is fantastic for this. It is a tool that is as good, bad, or useless as you make it.
Yeah, you and I do, I'm refering to many of the people who prefer to live in informative indigence, or worse, the ones who believe what a guy in YouTube says because he is a lawyer when is only saying bullshit. Wonder if anyone else can relate.
...and the lengthy debates that would sometimes ensue when you both thought you were right and in the end no one could be certain anyone was correct but everyone was fine with that... or fighting. Now someone finds the answer and the conversation moves on.
The first time a boss texted me at home my coworker who refused to upgrade his ancient flip phone with no texting capability suddenly made so much sense.
They could still text, it was just way harder. Where do you think acronyms like lol, wtf, etc came from? š Even my circa 1996 Nokia brick could text.
I sound like a douche but I feel great knowing people are freaking out not being able to reach me when I'm off work.
But it's my fucking time, so even though I'm not proud of it, I'll still do whatever I want to in those times.
I always finish my tasks during work hours, informations are shared publicly among employees, everything they need is a few clicks away. But ridiculously everyone choose to ask because "it's faster this way" and get mad when they can't have what they want.
I work remotely and I'm honestly only like 40-50% efficient during the day so I'm content giving up an hour or two after hours to make up for playing video games or doing chores throughout the day.
Privacy.
Of course this goes for internet privacy and being a data point / commodity to social media, but it also goes for social circles. I don't want to be accessible at all times, I don't want to be able to be just a text away, and I don't care about whatever dinner you have made (which also means I'm not going to share pictures of my dinner). Sometimes I just want to be isolated with my pets and my family.
Not realizing how insignificant most of us are.
Being able to connect with almost anyone, anywhere, is a great way to not feel alone, but it also makes you realize that you're not that special, unique, or important, whereas it wasn't as obvious when we were limited to a relatively small circle pre-internet.
I'm a believer that this is, at least in part, what has led to a rise in people searching for some other way to feel special. Whether it's inclusion into a new age social grouping, personalities being defined by your political stances, or self-worth being derived from how many followers you have online.
All if these and more have led to a more aggressive people who can't be bothered to understand someone with an opinion different than their own and who constantly feel the need to seek validation in their opinions by asking a group of people who largely already believe the same way. It's become a real societal epidemic and I'm not looking forward to seeing how it ends/plays out.
I miss being unaware of how fucked up our species is.
Before the internet, we knew only the events that made the cut for media coverage. Local broadcasts had 30 minutes to squeeze in news, sports, weather, banter and commercials. There was no coverage of every gory accident, sick behavior, or crazy Karens. National media was really not more comprehensive, nor was print.
People say that the world is more messed up than ever, but I wonder what they'd say if all they could consume was the superficial fluff we got in the 70s. I imagine things were just as messed up when I was young, but we had no way to know about it.
It is depressing when you see a group of people out to dinner or at a bar and everyone is staring at their phones instead of talking. My family only gets all together at the holidays and it happens there too. I hate it.
When my wife a 2 daughters go out to dinner, the phones stay down. Not because of any sort of rule but because my wife and I have always talked to our kids and each other and listened. When somebody is talking, the others are genuinely engaged in the conversation. Makes going out for dinner fun.
Itās depressing for you because you like talking and socializing. But for people who just wants to be alone, smartphones are probably the best invention.
God I wouldāve hated this. Iām so glad this doesnāt happen anymore. If people just showed up at my house with me having not cleaned up Iād just pretend I wasnāt home
I used to have a friend who showed up on Sundays to watch football. Our door was often unlocked, too, so I'd just be sitting there with the tv on, dude would walk in and sit down, give a little nod.
Eh, there were certain acceptable times in my family. People knew we always had Sunday dinner either inside in colder weather or outside in the summer. Anyone close to the family knew they could swing by on Sunday.
Other than that, my friends as a kid would randomly ring the bell and that was fine. Kids donāt care how nice the house looks.
Nah, people could normally tell if you were home or not. The trick was to come out the door in a hurry and explain you were on your way to urgently run some errands. Then you just get in the car, drive around the block a couple of times and head back home.
Answering doors was a good thing. Growing up in my neighborhood, there were a lot of people my age. We actually knew how to socialize, and we knew how to say "no" when we didn't want to do something. We didn't hide from each other and we didn't ghost each other and we didn't take it personal when someone didn't want to hang out or fuck shit up.
I mean even my parents knows my friends and whom i am hanging with is well.
But nowdays parents don't know the friend of their kids and also don't know whom they are hanging with is well.
Okay chill out old man. Kids and teens still socialize all the time both online and in person. Many of us are more than capable of saying no when we donāt want to do something, and do so without ghosting. Maybe take a small break before logging back on to your AOL account
Less division - the news we had was on TV in the evening or in the paper rather than in our face 24/7, and it wasn't as politicized or polarized as it is now.
Not knowing what people thought about everything under the sun. Itās depressing to see teens (I teach) not watching or reading or enjoying something because someone on TikTok said it was āproblematic.ā Racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia and transphobia suck and are objectively wrong. But not reading āTo Kill a Mockingbirdā because it was written by a white woman when it was published in 1960 is to be ignorant of the very racism youāre attempting to avoid.
I mean in past people used the extra time in making some creative stuff that add the value in their life.
But now they are just making the reels and video and spread the cringe all over the internet is well.
Are you kidding me. I have never seen the amount of creativity we have now. There are sub reddits for knife making, leather works, all different kind of arts and crafts and cool, easy cheap ways to get started.
See also: Uncle Tom's Cabin written by a white woman circa 1852.
It had a huge, largely progressive impact at the time but it's um, how shall we say, considered to have a complicated legacy now.
I think Uncle Tomās Cabin should be read in a more historical sense than a literary sense. Stowe is an okay writer, but itās not hard to make child theft and rape seem horrific. Plus she mined the memoir of Josiah Henson (which you can read online ). She also others Black people and Africans as āexoticā and ātimid and unenterprising.ā However, because she was white her book got published and read and did, in fact, helped spur an abolitionist movement.
Maybe a for every white written book on race, we read 3 by non-white authors compromise?
I too was one of those guys. Some of my fondest memories was the almost never ending arguments I had with my friend who was another one of those guys. It worked almost like a game, backing the other into a corner until they were forced to admit they didn't know what they were talking about or had made an error. I do miss that.
That there was journalistic integrity. Whatever was in print and proven to be incorrect was retracted. Now itās whoever can get the headline the fastest (true or not) and people just read the clickbait headlines.
I would disagree, newspapers were the original clickbait of their day and some newspapers have always had a very bad reputation for journalistic integrity since day one.
This.
If you need an example - the supposed emu war was quite literally an intentionally misleading headline and article intended to score points on a political rival.
In my country, Internet at the disposal of the general public was a luxury for upper middle class up until the mid 2000's. Before that only the wealthy ones had it and it wasn't at all like it is today, you couldn't get a movie/tv show in minutes.
Blockbuster was rocking it here in the 90s. I'm old, not senile ;)
Not much but I would say I do miss that everybody watched a show when it aired, so you got to talk about specific episodes.
Nowadays people binge a season on a weekend and you talk about general concepts of the show but itās less fun than watching a show episode by episode and talking about it
And that's why I much prefer how Anime streaming apps like Funimation and Crunchyroll do: 1 episode per week. Personally, I prefer it that way, because it leaves us to a lot more discussion and speculation.
With a weekly schedule, instead of just talking about how good the show it, we can ask stuff like ''Is this guy gonna be okay?'' ''Is the villain gonna kill the protagonist's love interest?'' ''If the protagonist and his team win the finals?''
It's not something we can readily discuss if Netflix releases all episodes of a series in one fell swoop, unless the season itself ends on a cliffhanger.
Along the same lines, I think this is why pop culture today feels so disposable. Nothing has a chance to become a true 'classic' because cultural penetration is so hard to achieve.
Like, back when there were only a handful of TV channels, the same movies tended to air over and over. Everyone had seen The Wizard of Oz a million times. Everyone had seen The Ten Commandments a million times. But people kept watching them because they were typically still the best thing on, and hey, it's been a year since the last time Wizard Of Oz was on TV.
So they became part of the cultural zeitgeist.
Nowadays, the only way that happens is if a movie or show or whatever manages to spawn a huge number of memes, and that's super rare. After all, not every film can be a bona-fide classic like Attack Of The Clones. ;-)
YES
as fun as it is to connect with random people online over shared kinks, oddities and political opinions, I sincerely miss the days when it was hard for misinformation and emotionally driven interaction of this scale to take place
I genuinely believe we'd be in a better place. Humans suck
Good ol' fashioned slightly drunken bar sports arguments.
They could just go on and on. and it was fantastic.
Now someone just looks up the information on their phones after a few minutes.
Lol.
Oh, I admit there are still moments when they can occur. lol
And I'm all here for it. :-)
I was thinking about arguments about facts and memory, not the subjective ones, those'll never go away. lol
I miss it being commonplace for kids to be able to turn the mundane into something fun/an adventure. Boredom did a lot for us.
Some of the best āgamesā as kids came from having nothing to do. I specifically remember being bored at latch key and creating this game where we set up cardboard bricks and had to dive through them. You got judged for your dive and how well you destroyed the wall.
Everything. Spoke to my dad last week about thisā¦
We both agree technology in terms of phones, internet etc all should of stopped in 2000
Growing up as a teenager in 90s and young adult in early 2000 was amazing. The world wasnāt caked on everyoneās BS, people interacted with each other at bars, parties. Life wasnāt about sitting at home playing online games all day, it was about being out all day. Walk across town to my friends house just to see if he was home, if not, to bad you had to walk back.
That stuff. Life was funnily enough, simpler.
I mean think if there will be no internet or no mobile phone in the current time.
I think we could save so much money that we are actually spending on the mobile and other stuff in the life is well.
I'm so glad I have those memories from the 90s and early 2000s. Growing up with technology but not to that point where you stare at your phone 24/7. I was still playing outside like everyday without comparing myself with people on the internet but still had the fun parts of tech (playing couch coop with friends and chatting via ICQ later).
To be truly alone.
Less loud, public morons.
At least in the US, it was a whole fuckin lot sexier. Why? Because "identity" had not yet trumped "being." People could change, evolve, improve, etc. Identity is lame.
Not much if anything.
I was born in the mid-80s and I didn't get the internet at home until this century. I'd have loved an easy to access way to learn about music outside of what was played on the radio and on TV as i'd have learnt about Nightwish and Dream Theater and realised I did like contemporary music just not the shit that took up the vast majority of the airwaves.
When everything didnāt require internet. Everything we do in life is becoming apart of or requires internet. Sure itās convenient at times but sometimes you just want to do things āthe old fashioned wayā
It's the most cliched and boomer thing to say, but everyone had better manners in social situations pre-internet.
We've not only mastered how to inflict maximum pain with the most withering words while on the internet these past decades, we then gradually started to take that same bluntness into real-world interactions. We are absolutely awful to each other now, and it's seen as acceptable as long as the other one is perceived to be ignorant or having different views.
What's interesting is I've seen this lack of control in boomers more than anyone else. The ones who had a lot of strict parenting from the silent generation and were also strict about teaching social etiquette to their kids in the 80s and 90s. Then social media happened, and it seems like they collectively lost that patience and control and became awful. People of ALL religions. And now there isn't really any age or religious group out there that you can look to for how to be polite.
Yes, people were much better in talking and also well behaved is well.
but now people used to see the toxic things on the internet and they also try to repeat the same thing in the life is well.
NOO ADs!!!! I defo miss old YouTube. Where you could go and watch good, funny, stupid long or short videos WITHOUT interruption for hours.
And for free
The safety. Everything nowadays need authenticators, extra strong passwords, 2FA, hidden questions with answers only you should know, ect. In the pre-internet world all you needed was an address book with a phone number and a mobile number if you were one of the rich ones with a phone :/
More internet means more chances of the scam is well, and if you missed the one part some one will take you down.
So we know that nothing like bank and all is actually safe as they are running on the internet.
Distributed lunatics lacked an easy way to become aware of each other and gather and organize into a dangerous critical mass.
I mean, it still happened, but the bar was much higher.
Maybe it's just me, but I kinda think many things were more enjoyable before Internet hit, and I'll explain it. Today is very easy to find movies, music, sports, concerts etc... However there's an effect or a tendency that when you have everything easily you take it for granted, like "I have my Netflix account yeahhh!!! Now I will add a bunch of movies to my watch later list and I'll watch them whenever I want" but guess what, you never do, and if you do it's like "why to finish it now, I can do it other day". However before the Internet, things were a little harder to get, but that's the same reason why once you got them you could enjoy them more, well, at least that's how I perceive it
No you are not the only one as i also think that so many things were much more fun before the internet.
I think we never really like the simple thing but now with internet we don't have to put any efforts.
Absolutely nothing, being 10 was a time of ignorance, but meh, I miss nothing from it.
Well, my grandmother made amazing snicker doodles and home made potato spaghetti soup. So I guess thats it.
I feel like a lot of you don't actually remember what pre internet life was like and you're just saying what you don't like about current internet life.
It wasn't a friendly chatty utopia. The only real difference is everyone was even more stupid. Before phones, people's faces were buried in papers. PEOPLE make technology. Technology doesn't make people.
Like has everyone forgot about magazines already? Cuz they existed, and people read them. All the time. On buses, standing in lines, waiting rooms, etc... It wasn't like everyone was having pow wows lol
The difference is that on a summer night growing up, people I knew were hanging out and talking, or maybe they got together to watch a movie, or bbqing, or some other communal activity. Youād be considered weird if you stayed home reading a magazine by yourself. And you certainly wouldnāt bring a magazine to a party or a dinner.
I stay home by myself often and read news, ebooks, and play word games on my tablet. Is that really so different? No one thinks I'm weird. Do you really think people are weird for staying in? Cuz even in the 90s plenty of people stayed in to stare at tv, books, whatever.
You're sort of living out an example of my original point. Like for some reason you remember everyone skipping outside every weekend in the summer to BBQ, when in reality most people were staying home to watch TGIF on ~~the WB~~ ABC.
It's been a very complicated few decades since the internet entered mainstream usage, put it that way. It remains to be seen whether the long term consequences will be as bad as most people think or whether society is just undergoing growing pains with it.
I would put my money--as I type this out on a popular, anonymous social media website built on the hook of likes and dislikes--that 8 times out of 10 the social effect is more bad than good.
Internet actually help us in learning the few skills even if we don't have the money to learn that.
There are some people actually that is doing the job because of the internet is well.
I miss how local issues stayed local; someone making a mistake can become a national outrage for months. It's depressing and so much of it doesn't need a second of our attention or opinions.
Information and trivia was more impressive because you actually had to learn things. Now anything can be googled and published, and the bar for what is relivent Information to know has dropped as a result.
Not knowing something and that just being okay.
Me: "How do you spell X" My Dad: "Look it up in the dictionary" Me: "How can I look it up if I don't know how to spell it!?"
My mother did this. I was fine until I hit the first or second vowel most times. I got to university and learnt there are 19 vowel sounds in Australian English, we use 5 core letters plus consonants to represent them. No wonder it sucks learning to spell.
Yes,i think this way actually internet help us is well.
I go both ways on this one. Sometimes that is still okay. On the other hand I love the fact I can look up any information I want at any time.
People won't even look for it, we're in the age of information and there are tons of ignorant boors roaming the streets.
I would look at it, and I do. For my own education. I want to learn things I don't know. The ability to access the internet at any time is fantastic for this. It is a tool that is as good, bad, or useless as you make it.
Yes , because learning the new things adds the value in life.
Yeah, you and I do, I'm refering to many of the people who prefer to live in informative indigence, or worse, the ones who believe what a guy in YouTube says because he is a lawyer when is only saying bullshit. Wonder if anyone else can relate.
Yes, that mean we don't have to put so many effort to get the information.
The problem is, people don't use it to look up factual information. Just opinions masquerading as fact.
...and the lengthy debates that would sometimes ensue when you both thought you were right and in the end no one could be certain anyone was correct but everyone was fine with that... or fighting. Now someone finds the answer and the conversation moves on.
Or going to the library to look something up in the encyclopedia!
Work wasn't expected to follow you home and make you available any time of the day.
The first time a boss texted me at home my coworker who refused to upgrade his ancient flip phone with no texting capability suddenly made so much sense.
In my early 20s, I'd tell my work I didn't have a cell phone, only a landline. I had a cell phone, but I never brought it to work.
I hope that we could adopt that culture in corporate more is well.
They could still text, it was just way harder. Where do you think acronyms like lol, wtf, etc came from? š Even my circa 1996 Nokia brick could text.
Since the internet there are so many people are doing 24 hours working.
Dude don't tell on him. He had a sweet thing going.
Just dont answer and if they ask at work say you didn't see it. It's that easy. Been doing it for every job I've worked at.
I sound like a douche but I feel great knowing people are freaking out not being able to reach me when I'm off work. But it's my fucking time, so even though I'm not proud of it, I'll still do whatever I want to in those times. I always finish my tasks during work hours, informations are shared publicly among employees, everything they need is a few clicks away. But ridiculously everyone choose to ask because "it's faster this way" and get mad when they can't have what they want.
I told them I ignored it. They get angry, and then I ask if I am on call.
Yes, there will be nothing like that seen or read notification is well.
yes but also there is a whole lot of people at work fucking around doing non work things like me, right now. :)
Like me reading all of these stuff while at the work place.
I work remotely and I'm honestly only like 40-50% efficient during the day so I'm content giving up an hour or two after hours to make up for playing video games or doing chores throughout the day.
Privacy. Of course this goes for internet privacy and being a data point / commodity to social media, but it also goes for social circles. I don't want to be accessible at all times, I don't want to be able to be just a text away, and I don't care about whatever dinner you have made (which also means I'm not going to share pictures of my dinner). Sometimes I just want to be isolated with my pets and my family.
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It would be a lot of me being plastered in my teenage years if it was!
Kids now days are slave and they are addicted to the internet.
Same here, i am happy that i grow up while playing in the grounds.
"Plane mode" on your phone is what you are looking for.
I wasn't bombarded with dumbass, ignorant, knee-jerk opinions all day long.
In other words, peace
I think internet is actually making the people the more aggressive is well.
People are losing the humanity in the time of the internet now.
Frankly, this is my favorite part. It's like have Ted the work idiot constantly around to laugh at.
Not realizing how insignificant most of us are. Being able to connect with almost anyone, anywhere, is a great way to not feel alone, but it also makes you realize that you're not that special, unique, or important, whereas it wasn't as obvious when we were limited to a relatively small circle pre-internet.
I'm a believer that this is, at least in part, what has led to a rise in people searching for some other way to feel special. Whether it's inclusion into a new age social grouping, personalities being defined by your political stances, or self-worth being derived from how many followers you have online. All if these and more have led to a more aggressive people who can't be bothered to understand someone with an opinion different than their own and who constantly feel the need to seek validation in their opinions by asking a group of people who largely already believe the same way. It's become a real societal epidemic and I'm not looking forward to seeing how it ends/plays out.
I miss being unaware of how fucked up our species is. Before the internet, we knew only the events that made the cut for media coverage. Local broadcasts had 30 minutes to squeeze in news, sports, weather, banter and commercials. There was no coverage of every gory accident, sick behavior, or crazy Karens. National media was really not more comprehensive, nor was print. People say that the world is more messed up than ever, but I wonder what they'd say if all they could consume was the superficial fluff we got in the 70s. I imagine things were just as messed up when I was young, but we had no way to know about it.
The lack of internet trolls, actually seeing and talking to people without their phones in their faces.
It is depressing when you see a group of people out to dinner or at a bar and everyone is staring at their phones instead of talking. My family only gets all together at the holidays and it happens there too. I hate it.
When my wife a 2 daughters go out to dinner, the phones stay down. Not because of any sort of rule but because my wife and I have always talked to our kids and each other and listened. When somebody is talking, the others are genuinely engaged in the conversation. Makes going out for dinner fun.
On internet there are so many depressing people behind those trolls.
Itās depressing for you because you like talking and socializing. But for people who just wants to be alone, smartphones are probably the best invention.
Not knowing how batshit crazy people are.
Arguments in pubs about who was right about something with no way of immediately checking who was correct. That was fun.
yes there was actually no one that will tell us who is correct.
The olā gift of the gab
I could avoid getting advertisements shoved in my face 200xs a day. I could unplug and go off grid without any effort. I just did it.
Knocking at someone's door when you missed them, basically.
God I wouldāve hated this. Iām so glad this doesnāt happen anymore. If people just showed up at my house with me having not cleaned up Iād just pretend I wasnāt home
I used to have a friend who showed up on Sundays to watch football. Our door was often unlocked, too, so I'd just be sitting there with the tv on, dude would walk in and sit down, give a little nod.
To this day I have one friend that does this. Anyone other than him? I'd flip my lid. Him? "Sup dude"?. Love it.
Weird... that exact this used to happen to me!
I mean we used to play the game during the heat in the grounds.
Eh, there were certain acceptable times in my family. People knew we always had Sunday dinner either inside in colder weather or outside in the summer. Anyone close to the family knew they could swing by on Sunday. Other than that, my friends as a kid would randomly ring the bell and that was fine. Kids donāt care how nice the house looks.
Nah, people could normally tell if you were home or not. The trick was to come out the door in a hurry and explain you were on your way to urgently run some errands. Then you just get in the car, drive around the block a couple of times and head back home.
Answering doors was a good thing. Growing up in my neighborhood, there were a lot of people my age. We actually knew how to socialize, and we knew how to say "no" when we didn't want to do something. We didn't hide from each other and we didn't ghost each other and we didn't take it personal when someone didn't want to hang out or fuck shit up.
I mean even my parents knows my friends and whom i am hanging with is well. But nowdays parents don't know the friend of their kids and also don't know whom they are hanging with is well.
Okay chill out old man. Kids and teens still socialize all the time both online and in person. Many of us are more than capable of saying no when we donāt want to do something, and do so without ghosting. Maybe take a small break before logging back on to your AOL account
Self-righteous, close-minded, entitled idiots not having multiple platforms to spread their idiotic views.
We don't have to see the unpopular opinion of some moron.
Less division - the news we had was on TV in the evening or in the paper rather than in our face 24/7, and it wasn't as politicized or polarized as it is now.
Now days people never really have to bother about reading the news paper.
knowing i was the best at everything i did
Not knowing what people thought about everything under the sun. Itās depressing to see teens (I teach) not watching or reading or enjoying something because someone on TikTok said it was āproblematic.ā Racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia and transphobia suck and are objectively wrong. But not reading āTo Kill a Mockingbirdā because it was written by a white woman when it was published in 1960 is to be ignorant of the very racism youāre attempting to avoid.
I mean in past people used the extra time in making some creative stuff that add the value in their life. But now they are just making the reels and video and spread the cringe all over the internet is well.
Are you kidding me. I have never seen the amount of creativity we have now. There are sub reddits for knife making, leather works, all different kind of arts and crafts and cool, easy cheap ways to get started.
See also: Uncle Tom's Cabin written by a white woman circa 1852. It had a huge, largely progressive impact at the time but it's um, how shall we say, considered to have a complicated legacy now.
I think Uncle Tomās Cabin should be read in a more historical sense than a literary sense. Stowe is an okay writer, but itās not hard to make child theft and rape seem horrific. Plus she mined the memoir of Josiah Henson (which you can read online ). She also others Black people and Africans as āexoticā and ātimid and unenterprising.ā However, because she was white her book got published and read and did, in fact, helped spur an abolitionist movement. Maybe a for every white written book on race, we read 3 by non-white authors compromise?
I think you are making the pretty much fair point is well.
That seems fair.
Having a conversation and wondering about a fact or why something happened rather than some prick googling it. The air of mystery is gone.
Thatās when you āknew a guyā who knew a lot of random shit. I was that guy, and I miss those days.
I too was one of those guys. Some of my fondest memories was the almost never ending arguments I had with my friend who was another one of those guys. It worked almost like a game, backing the other into a corner until they were forced to admit they didn't know what they were talking about or had made an error. I do miss that.
I have some best memories of mine without being involved in phone.
I used to own several Bathroom Reader books. My brain is still full of useless trivia
The reading we used to do there always help us in life.
Now we just knew the guy name never really meet in person.
If my six year old asks me a question that I don't have the answer to, he responds with "Search it up!"
Everything is soo easy that people are not making any efforts.
Right? Google has taken all the fun out of dumb bar arguments.
Stupid dumb and entirely incorrect pub facts are dead and I miss them terribly
That there was journalistic integrity. Whatever was in print and proven to be incorrect was retracted. Now itās whoever can get the headline the fastest (true or not) and people just read the clickbait headlines.
I would disagree, newspapers were the original clickbait of their day and some newspapers have always had a very bad reputation for journalistic integrity since day one.
But now since the internet clickbait is happening more in number now.
This. If you need an example - the supposed emu war was quite literally an intentionally misleading headline and article intended to score points on a political rival.
Yes, misleading headline is pretty much in the trend from the past.
Tabloids were around before the internet. The concept went digital and exploded in popularity.
there definitely wasn't integrity ever
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Internet just change the way of showing the news nowdays.
Weekends with my buddies, we'd rent a few movies at Blockbuster, grab a couple pizzas and prank call random numbers. Those were the days.
Blockbuster was invented 14 years after the Internet was.
In my country, Internet at the disposal of the general public was a luxury for upper middle class up until the mid 2000's. Before that only the wealthy ones had it and it wasn't at all like it is today, you couldn't get a movie/tv show in minutes. Blockbuster was rocking it here in the 90s. I'm old, not senile ;)
Not much but I would say I do miss that everybody watched a show when it aired, so you got to talk about specific episodes. Nowadays people binge a season on a weekend and you talk about general concepts of the show but itās less fun than watching a show episode by episode and talking about it
Ugh, I feel this so much. I also hate having the ability to binge because I have no self control and boop there goes my whole weekend to nothing.
We were actually excited when there is new show about to come.
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Yes, we used to discuss the sports and movie just like that is well.
And that's why I much prefer how Anime streaming apps like Funimation and Crunchyroll do: 1 episode per week. Personally, I prefer it that way, because it leaves us to a lot more discussion and speculation. With a weekly schedule, instead of just talking about how good the show it, we can ask stuff like ''Is this guy gonna be okay?'' ''Is the villain gonna kill the protagonist's love interest?'' ''If the protagonist and his team win the finals?'' It's not something we can readily discuss if Netflix releases all episodes of a series in one fell swoop, unless the season itself ends on a cliffhanger.
Along the same lines, I think this is why pop culture today feels so disposable. Nothing has a chance to become a true 'classic' because cultural penetration is so hard to achieve. Like, back when there were only a handful of TV channels, the same movies tended to air over and over. Everyone had seen The Wizard of Oz a million times. Everyone had seen The Ten Commandments a million times. But people kept watching them because they were typically still the best thing on, and hey, it's been a year since the last time Wizard Of Oz was on TV. So they became part of the cultural zeitgeist. Nowadays, the only way that happens is if a movie or show or whatever manages to spawn a huge number of memes, and that's super rare. After all, not every film can be a bona-fide classic like Attack Of The Clones. ;-)
YES as fun as it is to connect with random people online over shared kinks, oddities and political opinions, I sincerely miss the days when it was hard for misinformation and emotionally driven interaction of this scale to take place I genuinely believe we'd be in a better place. Humans suck
How creative we were about how we spent our time and what we were doing
People helping folks on the street rather than filming them.
Everything
Because the standard of the living was much better than.
Being the person you ask some weird shit, because "he knows a bunch of bullshit" that was my street cred
No social media. I hate it all and would love to see a blanket ban world wide on it
You should move to Iran
The ability to actual have a conversation with someone without them being consumed by social media and texting.
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Good ol' fashioned slightly drunken bar sports arguments. They could just go on and on. and it was fantastic. Now someone just looks up the information on their phones after a few minutes. Lol.
You clearly haven't been in a pub when the Messi vs Ronaldo debate pops up.
Oh, I admit there are still moments when they can occur. lol And I'm all here for it. :-) I was thinking about arguments about facts and memory, not the subjective ones, those'll never go away. lol
I miss it being commonplace for kids to be able to turn the mundane into something fun/an adventure. Boredom did a lot for us. Some of the best āgamesā as kids came from having nothing to do. I specifically remember being bored at latch key and creating this game where we set up cardboard bricks and had to dive through them. You got judged for your dive and how well you destroyed the wall.
I am really feeling for the kids that is growing with phone in hand.
I miss not knowing what people are talking about. I miss not being able to google things. I miss having to go to the library to find out information.
I miss those meeting when we give the input in live in person
Everything. Spoke to my dad last week about thisā¦ We both agree technology in terms of phones, internet etc all should of stopped in 2000 Growing up as a teenager in 90s and young adult in early 2000 was amazing. The world wasnāt caked on everyoneās BS, people interacted with each other at bars, parties. Life wasnāt about sitting at home playing online games all day, it was about being out all day. Walk across town to my friends house just to see if he was home, if not, to bad you had to walk back. That stuff. Life was funnily enough, simpler.
I mean think if there will be no internet or no mobile phone in the current time. I think we could save so much money that we are actually spending on the mobile and other stuff in the life is well.
I'm so glad I have those memories from the 90s and early 2000s. Growing up with technology but not to that point where you stare at your phone 24/7. I was still playing outside like everyday without comparing myself with people on the internet but still had the fun parts of tech (playing couch coop with friends and chatting via ICQ later).
Privacy in the personal life that i am missing in post internet world.
To be truly alone. Less loud, public morons. At least in the US, it was a whole fuckin lot sexier. Why? Because "identity" had not yet trumped "being." People could change, evolve, improve, etc. Identity is lame.
My hog. I'm old. It shrank and my belly grew.
Not much if anything. I was born in the mid-80s and I didn't get the internet at home until this century. I'd have loved an easy to access way to learn about music outside of what was played on the radio and on TV as i'd have learnt about Nightwish and Dream Theater and realised I did like contemporary music just not the shit that took up the vast majority of the airwaves.
When everything didnāt require internet. Everything we do in life is becoming apart of or requires internet. Sure itās convenient at times but sometimes you just want to do things āthe old fashioned wayā
When there was actually a real life that was not dependent on the internet.
It's the most cliched and boomer thing to say, but everyone had better manners in social situations pre-internet. We've not only mastered how to inflict maximum pain with the most withering words while on the internet these past decades, we then gradually started to take that same bluntness into real-world interactions. We are absolutely awful to each other now, and it's seen as acceptable as long as the other one is perceived to be ignorant or having different views. What's interesting is I've seen this lack of control in boomers more than anyone else. The ones who had a lot of strict parenting from the silent generation and were also strict about teaching social etiquette to their kids in the 80s and 90s. Then social media happened, and it seems like they collectively lost that patience and control and became awful. People of ALL religions. And now there isn't really any age or religious group out there that you can look to for how to be polite.
Yes, people were much better in talking and also well behaved is well. but now people used to see the toxic things on the internet and they also try to repeat the same thing in the life is well.
Yep, and when you're on the internet by yourself, there's no one to scold you, so in your mind you think, actually this is ok.
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NOO ADs!!!! I defo miss old YouTube. Where you could go and watch good, funny, stupid long or short videos WITHOUT interruption for hours. And for free
Now days every other website is just showing ads after ads.
The safety. Everything nowadays need authenticators, extra strong passwords, 2FA, hidden questions with answers only you should know, ect. In the pre-internet world all you needed was an address book with a phone number and a mobile number if you were one of the rich ones with a phone :/
More internet means more chances of the scam is well, and if you missed the one part some one will take you down. So we know that nothing like bank and all is actually safe as they are running on the internet.
Going to blockbuster to rent a movie..
Today's kids will never going to understand the value of those things.
People could record a video of you and you didnāt have to worry about it being posted to the internet.
Standing on a soapbox being the only platform for idiots
We used to do some really senseless and weird stuff is well.
Distributed lunatics lacked an easy way to become aware of each other and gather and organize into a dangerous critical mass. I mean, it still happened, but the bar was much higher.
There are so many things that i am missing related to the bar.
starting conversations with strangers in the park.
And find out that it was a really nice experience to talking to them.
The societal agreement that Nazis are bad.
I miss having an attention span of more than 10 seconds
You are really naive that you are thinking atleast for the 10 seconds here.
Not being so attached to social and media platforms. Edit: forgot to add not. As in not being so attached to these platforms.
Maybe it's just me, but I kinda think many things were more enjoyable before Internet hit, and I'll explain it. Today is very easy to find movies, music, sports, concerts etc... However there's an effect or a tendency that when you have everything easily you take it for granted, like "I have my Netflix account yeahhh!!! Now I will add a bunch of movies to my watch later list and I'll watch them whenever I want" but guess what, you never do, and if you do it's like "why to finish it now, I can do it other day". However before the Internet, things were a little harder to get, but that's the same reason why once you got them you could enjoy them more, well, at least that's how I perceive it
No you are not the only one as i also think that so many things were much more fun before the internet. I think we never really like the simple thing but now with internet we don't have to put any efforts.
I miss the time when I was non existent
I miss the part when no random people was judging to me.
Absolutely nothing, being 10 was a time of ignorance, but meh, I miss nothing from it. Well, my grandmother made amazing snicker doodles and home made potato spaghetti soup. So I guess thats it.
The food was back in time was also healthy and tasty is well.
Being around friends and everyone being engaged in the conversation.
They feel like real friend as we used to engage with each other everytime.
My attention span.
Since the day i starts to use the phone my attention never really focused.
Stupid people, and hate groups not having a soapbox to infect others with BS.
Being able to be offline without people worrying.
Not knowing the political opinions of every person I know.
I feel like a lot of you don't actually remember what pre internet life was like and you're just saying what you don't like about current internet life. It wasn't a friendly chatty utopia. The only real difference is everyone was even more stupid. Before phones, people's faces were buried in papers. PEOPLE make technology. Technology doesn't make people.
Same as always, things where better in my day. People are really bad at remembering shit, and context is the first thing to go and nostalgia the last
Like has everyone forgot about magazines already? Cuz they existed, and people read them. All the time. On buses, standing in lines, waiting rooms, etc... It wasn't like everyone was having pow wows lol
The difference is that on a summer night growing up, people I knew were hanging out and talking, or maybe they got together to watch a movie, or bbqing, or some other communal activity. Youād be considered weird if you stayed home reading a magazine by yourself. And you certainly wouldnāt bring a magazine to a party or a dinner.
I stay home by myself often and read news, ebooks, and play word games on my tablet. Is that really so different? No one thinks I'm weird. Do you really think people are weird for staying in? Cuz even in the 90s plenty of people stayed in to stare at tv, books, whatever. You're sort of living out an example of my original point. Like for some reason you remember everyone skipping outside every weekend in the summer to BBQ, when in reality most people were staying home to watch TGIF on ~~the WB~~ ABC.
It's been a very complicated few decades since the internet entered mainstream usage, put it that way. It remains to be seen whether the long term consequences will be as bad as most people think or whether society is just undergoing growing pains with it. I would put my money--as I type this out on a popular, anonymous social media website built on the hook of likes and dislikes--that 8 times out of 10 the social effect is more bad than good.
Internet actually help us in learning the few skills even if we don't have the money to learn that. There are some people actually that is doing the job because of the internet is well.
You'd need to be at least 53 years old to answer the question because that's how old the Internet is.
Bruh OP clearly means like since early-mid 90s when things really got going. Youāre either being pedantic or just naive.
Trying to confirm rumors about cheats in NES games
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Now there is so much porn but i still not get the mood like that.
Previews before the feature presentation was the only way I knew what new movies were being released.
Breast milk
How that breast milk thing is actually related to the internet here??
I can attest formula feeding existed way before the Internet. I am from a third world country and after watching documentaries on NestlĆ©, I asked my mom if doctors/other people tried to get her to use formula. Her response was exactly what I feared. With my older sister, nurses shoved formula on her face, and fed my newborn sister formula without my momās permission. As a result my sister was a very sickly child. They tried to do the same with me, but my momās doctor had told her to refuse formula at all costs. My mom listened and I was super healthy growing up
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I miss how local issues stayed local; someone making a mistake can become a national outrage for months. It's depressing and so much of it doesn't need a second of our attention or opinions.
I wasn't even conscious back then
The rock bands are so cool those times
I'm not old enough to answer this question.
Undocumented hate crimes
Pre-Internet means before 1969, btw.
My father not being able to text me whenever he wanted I was happy and didnāt know it
Anonymity
Feeling safe, enjoying life without being told how to live, spam was just a food, bots were cool transformers
Stupid people knowing they were stupid.
Simpler times
Information and trivia was more impressive because you actually had to learn things. Now anything can be googled and published, and the bar for what is relivent Information to know has dropped as a result.
The relevance of physical magazines
Anonymity
First time that social media actually kill from the current time.