Examples of how different life was before the internet age

1/11/2021

4,642 views

Culture Story: Examples of how different life was before the internet age

In this post, we will remember how we lived before the internet. Keep reading, you're going to enjoy this.

The internet has made almost everything easier for us. One of the things we love best about this development is that there are so many things we can now do from the comfort of our beds. But is there anything we miss? Let's try to find out.

#1 Amazon was not a store

What? If anyone asks about Amazon, 86% of the time you think about the famous e-commerce store. However, before the internet became a huge part of our lives, the only Amazon we knew was the river. And this shows you how much things have changed.

#2 You got your music from the radio

This may come as a surprise especially for today's teenagers, but before we had things like iTunes and Spotify, if you needed to get your favorite song, you had to record it from the radio.

Teenagers would never understand the stress of having to wait for your favorite song to come up on the station and quickly pressing the record button so you don't miss it. Believe us when we tell you that those were the real dark days.

#3 You had to leave your house to make friends

Today, so many of us have friends we met on social media. So many people meet their partners and future husbands and wives on social media or Tinder app. However, before social media was created, people had to leave the house to make friends.

It might be hard to understand the struggle of having to leave the house so often today, but it was such a common thing in the past.

#4 The answers to our questions could only be found in books

Before Google was invented, people spent time in the library searching for all the information they needed. The encyclopedias were in fashion too. Remember having to sit in the library all day searching for the definition of something and flipping through thousands of pages?

#5 Spiders were the only web designers

Don't blame us if you're a web designer, we are only messengers of the truth. Web design was not a profession most people knew about or considered. It didn't exist. Just in case you travel back in time, don't introduce yourself as a web designer.

#6 Social media posts were on real walls

If you needed to share information for everyone to see, you had to print the hard copy and paste them on an actual notice board on the wall. Imagine the struggle of walking from block to block just to post information. And what about times when your well-crafted posters get vandalized? Crazy!

#7 Multiplayer games included tables

You had to meet with your friends to play board games. Board games were really popular back then and those were the only multiplayer games available. Today we can play with our friends online and even find new friends from any part of the world while playing.

What other memorable things that were common before the interent can you name? Let us know below.

More fun things to do on QuizzClub:

answer fun trivia questions to test your knowledge;
learn something new or just laugh with our articles;
try to ace hundreds of our trivia quizzes.

SHARE this article with your friends for them to remember what life was like back then!

#Culture #Society #funny

What are your thoughts on this subject?

24 Comments

Sia Taylor

Hmmm, the good old days😆

Leticia Olsen

👍🏼Da best!! No complications!! Just simple living!!😊

Patricia Parraguez-Chen

I love the good old days! I donot understand why you say it was such struggle! Meeting friends in the park,at the library, in a get together, having real in person conversations ..That was LIFE! And what is wrong finding knowledge through books and Encyclopedias?

Ellen Sheehan

Yes some things are easier with the internet. It’s certainly easier to find the lyrics to a song - I like that. But it has also led to constant connections to phones/computers, no full days off of jobs, vast amounts of misinformation, people using it from afar to harass people, connecting unscrupulous people like pedophiles or conspiracy nuts. Your commentary seems to focus on the good aspects and not the price to pay.

Camilla Prosser

Ahh, yes, those were the days!

Suzanne Adams Hammond

Hmm...not everything was good. I remember being told I could be a teacher or maybe a nurse...have loved my teaching career, but still...and luckily, I was born white in the south, because otherwise, my family’s life would have been so very different & god-awful. Oh, and antibiotics and medical advancements...

William Stoddart

The good old days, only we weren’t good we were bad, we weren’t old we were young and it wasn’t the days it was the nights. lol

cheryl

Gil Grady, I remember that

Elsy O. Stromberg

When I was young you bought and listened to records and most of us didn't have recorders to record off the radio.

Richard Adams

Or push buttonsjeannette,

Karen Ward-Stephens

It still amazes me that all I have to do is ask Google a question and I get the answer immediately LOL

Armando Garciacano

My old GPS was called Thomas street guide, on paperback.

Doris Dallaire

It wasn’t a struggle to walk to a friend’s house, knock on the door and see if they could come and play. We got real “face time”, we connected in person, we exercised and stayed in shape as opposed to having to go to a gym, worry about weight gain and wonder if we’ve been hacked! There are advantages to modern living but a lot of disadvantages too. It’s not all good now. People are so stressed out, far more depression, obesity and lonely people.

Don Markusic

I'm 78 years old I'll take today's technology any day over the past . I worked in data processing today called IT for 40 years . I've seen things change consistently I'm not looking for the past to repeat itself .

lmoores

I remember those days fondly.

Paula Salem

Too funny!!!!yes I miss those days.

Caroline Weis

If we wanted to connect with someone, instead of using a cell phone we had to stay home to call them. Hard line connection, and I remember the old wall phone that you had to crank to get the operator who would connect you to your party and every one would listen in on your call. That's the old party line.

Gil Grady

Giving away my age - I remember picking up the phone and giving operator the three or four digit number.

debdeane

Talking on the telephone with friends. Sending more cards, and writing letters.

Eve

I don't remember recording off the radio...we went to $1.49 day once a month at Eaton's and bought our favourite "45". No post-it notes either - we had silver thumbtacks (not push pins)...and Mom and Dad bought a set of Miriam Webster encyclopedias from a door-to-door salesman just before I started school - it included a dictionary and a book on birds that I still have...there were very good things in the old days and of course some things have improved but memories are fun