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re: Was life better before the internet?
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:51 pm to Mithridates6
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:51 pm to Mithridates6
Early internet was great. You had to have some savvy to navigate online so it filtered out most of the yahoos. It was like a giant OT lounge, with no nudity restrictions.
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Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:52 pm to namvet6566
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We never bothered Blacks they did not bother us, we passd each other without a mean word.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:52 pm to 632627
Idk I think the internet in general ruined a lot of things. Look at music: you had to have real talent to make a hit that radio stations would keep on the rotation. Now, you just need a gimmick and fat marketing budget and you'll dominate
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:55 pm to Mithridates6
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you had to have real talent to make a hit that radio stations would keep on the rotation.
I wouldn't go quite that far. Classic rock radio is boring because they play the same songs over and over. They play the same songs over and over because most of the music then was shite, just like now.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:56 pm to FearTheFish
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Social media will be the downfall of society
+1
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:58 pm to Mithridates6
I have been addicted to the internet from nearly the beginning. I try like hell to log out but there's the one, next great thing, the next great thread here, the next really unique news story or whatever. Truth is, it's not there, but I keep scrolling on and on.
Yes, life was better, growing up in the 1970s and high school in the early 1980s. We had an entire area of town we could go on our bikes, during summers we were outside all day playing baseball with tennis balls so as not to wreak havoc; we'd play hide and seek, we'd play army, we'd ride up to the levee to watch the President and the Natchez pass on their way upriver and back down to the city around 4:00 p.m.
We could walk to the snoball stand, we still had neighborhood groceries and drugstores that were owned by people we knew and they would let us stay in there for hours reading magazines or comic books.
For a couple summers right around high school we had a local arcade a few blocks away and I could make $2.00 last for two to two and a half hours if I played the right games.
We would go inside only when we were tired or thirsty, it was raining, or we wanted to play board games or run our AFX/Aurora cars.
Yes, life was better, growing up in the 1970s and high school in the early 1980s. We had an entire area of town we could go on our bikes, during summers we were outside all day playing baseball with tennis balls so as not to wreak havoc; we'd play hide and seek, we'd play army, we'd ride up to the levee to watch the President and the Natchez pass on their way upriver and back down to the city around 4:00 p.m.
We could walk to the snoball stand, we still had neighborhood groceries and drugstores that were owned by people we knew and they would let us stay in there for hours reading magazines or comic books.
For a couple summers right around high school we had a local arcade a few blocks away and I could make $2.00 last for two to two and a half hours if I played the right games.
We would go inside only when we were tired or thirsty, it was raining, or we wanted to play board games or run our AFX/Aurora cars.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 10:59 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
That's what your neighborhood was like? Wasn't like that in mine.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:00 pm to Mithridates6
A time when not knowing something was cool.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:00 pm to Mithridates6
Life was actually better before the webs. Everything was slower and less efficient, but that’s actually a good thing, it turns out. Porn was less appealing but it wasn’t porn-dopamine overload either. Interpersonal relationships were stronger.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:01 pm to RedPop4
just pointing out saying racial harmony was better in the 60s is very very stupid
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:03 pm to Celery
Lol I remember trying to get at the porn mags behind the black screens at stores when mom wasn't watching
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:03 pm to Mithridates6
I was born in 1970, so my earliest memories go back to around 1973 or 1974. The 70s were a great time to be a kid and the 80s were a great time to be a teenager. The first half of the 90s had great movies and music.
I think that it would have been pretty cool to be born in the early 60s, so that you'd be old enough to have seen the moon landing in 69.
I think that it would have been pretty cool to be born in the early 60s, so that you'd be old enough to have seen the moon landing in 69.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:03 pm to Mithridates6
All the social science clearly shows that anxiety and mental health were much healthier pre- Internet. I have a personal theory that life is about finding MEANING and that is done by connecting positively with other people on an interpersonal basis, and through having a strong relationship with the natural world. The Internet blows all that to hell.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:05 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
You’ve been awarded 15 virtue signaling points to be cashed out later at your convenience.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:08 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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just pointing out saying racial harmony was better in the 60s is very very stupid
Is it better now when we're having riots for no reason and outrage mobs being sicced on people who've made "insensitive" posts from 6 years ago?
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:09 pm to Mithridates6
life was better before social media. when the only social media was chat rooms, it was the bomb dot com.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:10 pm to Mithridates6
The internet provides a tool to make life easier for the majority of people. I think a problem is people read a post/ story/ tweet/ etc and assume the rest of the world thinks the same way when in reality that’s not the case (at least in my privileged opinion).
Maybe a better explanation is the internet is good. Social media is less good.
Maybe a better explanation is the internet is good. Social media is less good.
This post was edited on 6/6/20 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:10 pm to Mithridates6
there were plenty of race riots in the 60s. and yes, it's better now than when jim crow laws were in effect.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:12 pm to Mithridates6
Life was better before television, or the phone, or the radio, or electricity. The feeling that the latest technology has screwed up everything is nothing new.
Posted on 6/6/20 at 11:13 pm to Mithridates6
Absolutely! Society today is the result of kids growing up bringing their questions to google instead of having to ask their parents. I graduated high school in 99 and am raising teenagers now - I can tell you their opinions come a lot more from the information they get from friends and online than they do from anything they’re taught at home. They believe EVERYTHING they see online or on social media. And I would think they’re pretty similar to all 15-25 year olds in that respect. Garbage in, garbage out.
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