Things the interwebz ruined!

whiskeyman

Remember when in various competitions, whether on TV, radio or a magazine, if you didnt know the question, you couldnt enter or you'd ask around to see if you knew someone who did?
I heard one radio presenter congratulating a winner yesterday with 'congratulations, you're right! well Googled!'

And then there's that magical wait of waiting for your bands new album... going to the record store than morning or after work and the anticipation of hearing track by track. Yeah, it can still be done, but there's a new generation that wouldnt even consider it.

Penfriends - does anyone write letters to friends anymore?

That feeling of not knowing something and still not knowing it 5mins later...
http://omg.wthax.org/4PZrpb.jpg

So what things, if any, do you feel the Interwebz has ruined?
You may be showing your age with your answers...

Yo Mamma

1. It makes you stupid
2. It is violating your privacy
3. It's ruining your sex life
4. It's disturbing your sleep
5. It can destroy your relationships
6. It can falsely accuse you
7. It can make you infertile
8. It can damage your immune system
9. It can damage your teenager's health
10. It doesn't let you bitch about your boss
11. It makes you make more mistakes
12. It is killing the art of conversation
13. It can make you a dangerous driver
14. It can clean out your bank account
15. It can turn you into an addict
16. It fools you into thinking strangers are 'friends'
17. It is sabotaging your spelling
18. It is ruining pub quizzes
19. It is erasing your memory
20. It is turning you into a hypochondriac

And fully fleshed out here

:pac:

thecatspjs

Used to think I was amazing. Now the internet has hundreds of thousands of videos of people doing everything I do, but way better. Internet destroyed my self esteem and confidence.

oldyouth

Kids playing outdoors less and less

The Cool

Interwebz + smart phones = crap table quizes

fibonaccii

The internet a few years ago used to be the bomb, a get away place, no social media etc, now today its a mind numbing pit, the internet did not cause this how ever, humans did.

Valetta

Encyclopaedia Britannica salesmen are fuming.

Procasinator

thecatspjs wrote: »

Used to think I was amazing. Now the internet has hundreds of thousands of videos of people doing everything I do, but way better. Internet destroyed my self esteem and confidence.

You're still the cat's pyjamas to me.

BeerWolf

Valetta wrote: »

Encyclopaedia Britannica salesmen are fuming.

Tell me about it - got 4 separate collections of their books from different eras, just collecting dust.

Jester252

Social interaction.

keithclancy

The Internet used to be good.

Now its full of Cat Memes and ripped off movies.


I remember the days when a song took 15 minutes to download on a 28.8 and they started doing flat rate dialup ... jaysus now that was a good feeling

Shiraz 4.99

Avon cosmetics sales

Record & DVD Shops

Larbre34

Valetta wrote: »

Encyclopaedia Britannica salesmen are fuming.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/a-sign-of-the-times-encyclopaedia-britannica-to-end-its-print-run/254457/

Its dead Jim.

Larbre34

keithclancy wrote: »

The Internet used to be good.

Now its full of Cat Memes and ripped off movies.


I remember the days when a song took 15 minutes to download on a 28.8 and they started doing flat rate dialup ... jaysus now that was a good feeling

To be fair my young friend, the spirit of the thread is probably for stuff that was around before any modems or computers, like taping albums and radio plays onto a cassette tape

This is one.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/tdk_d_90_c.jpg

danniemcq

Jester252 wrote: »

Social interaction.

I always hear this and I always disagree.

Social interaction has just changed not been ruined by the internet.

For example, I like gaming. If i could I would game morning noon and night. However finding someone who likes the same games as me is nigh on impossible especially in Donegal (people are spread out everywhere)

With the Internet however I have met several people from all corners of the world and Ireland. This has led to "real life" friendships and several pints over the last while!

I think when people see someone with their head stuck in a phone or always online they don't get they are "talking" with other people. Its allows an out. A way of bringing other people and friends who aren't there into the situation (and vice versa where you experience whatever is being texted/sent to you)

I think over the next few years 2 things will happen, it will become more acceptable but also the amount of it will drop. People will realise that to much information isn't a good thing and so even though the quantity will drop the quality will rise.

The image of people sitting at keyboards all day not going outside or talking to anyone, they are talking to people, they are having deep conversations and discussions with someone who is just like them. Without this connection what would they have? Would they be the life and soul of a party if they disconnected for a day? would they be good at speaking to new people? I gotta think not. The internet gives people voices.

danniemcq

keithclancy wrote: »

The Internet used to be good.

Now its full of Cat Memes and ripped off movies.


I remember the days when a song took 15 minutes to download on a 28.8 and they started doing flat rate dialup ... jaysus now that was a good feeling

hah i remember when P2P first started

Downloaded Bohemian Rhapsody and it took AGES, I think it was an 8mb file i was downloading at the time so I was looking at an ETA of 40-50 minutes. 99.8% complete the other guy disconnected.

Was left with an mp3 that ended with "the wind blo............" sickened

Bajingo

When I watch this scene from Stand By Me I think, does this kind of talk still go on with kids today. I was a 90's kid and me and my mates talked about stuff like this and it was always rumour or my friend told me this but now kids can just google it and it's settled, no silly debates, I think it's a bit sad.

The Cool

The Cool wrote: »

Interwebz + smart phones = crap table quizes

Interwebz + smart phones = status updates on the loo.

danniemcq

danniemcq wrote: »

I always hear this and I always disagree.

Have to agree. My circle of friends has expanded tenfold because of the internet. I keep in touch with people I most likely wouldn't have before. I am always on the go and it's 80% of the time with weirdos I met on the internet. My internet weirdo friends would agree.

The negatives for me that I can think of off the top of my head would be cyber bullying, child pornography being more easily dsitrubted and therefore more in demand. Pub quizzes definitely. Being less able to turn off from work when you're on holidays.

The positives far far outweigh the negatives though (I'm not implying that anything outweighs the negativity of child pornography btw, I mean the internet as a whole)

Genghiz Cohen

This song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU

danniemcq

Deleted User wrote: »

Have to agree. My circle of friends has expanded tenfold because of the internet. I keep in touch with people I most likely wouldn't have before. I am always on the go and it's 80% of the time with weirdos I met on the internet. My internet weirdo friends would agree.

Agree.... wait

meh

GoodBridge

Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'

GoodBridge

I hate listening to radio quizzes when it's soooooooooooo obvious that the chancer on the line has someone googling the answers fort them. It's cringey.

presenter: "What's the capitol of Sweden?"

listener: "oh... emmm. ehmmm .. Stockholm!"

me: "GET OFF THE FUPPIN RADIO YE CHEATING X%%&*??!"

Reamer Fanny

I hear the Internet is run by one giant router

pundy

it ruins relationships (of all kinds). it's a dangerous tool in the wrong hands, and there are plenty of those out there. It allows for a lot of bad stuff, but then again, some good can come of it too.

i prefer to pay bills online than having to send a cheque for example, it's easier etc.

this facebook/social network malarky though - never understood it. the only reason i go on there would be to promote a product or something.

The internet is wonderful, but social networking is rubbish and is destroying humans in a lot of ways imo.

RikkFlair

justryan wrote: »

I hear the Internet is run by one giant router

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg

:pac:

fibonaccii

danniemcq wrote: »

I always hear this and I always disagree.

Social interaction has just changed not been ruined by the internet.

For example, I like gaming. If i could I would game morning noon and night. However finding someone who likes the same games as me is nigh on impossible especially in Donegal (people are spread out everywhere)

With the Internet however I have met several people from all corners of the world and Ireland. This has led to "real life" friendships and several pints over the last while!

I think when people see someone with their head stuck in a phone or always online they don't get they are "talking" with other people. Its allows an out. A way of bringing other people and friends who aren't there into the situation (and vice versa where you experience whatever is being texted/sent to you)

I think over the next few years 2 things will happen, it will become more acceptable but also the amount of it will drop. People will realise that to much information isn't a good thing and so even though the quantity will drop the quality will rise.

The image of people sitting at keyboards all day not going outside or talking to anyone, they are talking to people, they are having deep conversations and discussions with someone who is just like them. Without this connection what would they have? Would they be the life and soul of a party if they disconnected for a day? would they be good at speaking to new people? I gotta think not. The internet gives people voices.

While i get what your saying, sitting and chatting to people on ventrilo for the night isnt the same as normal interaction. Online gaming ruined my social life for my teenage years, while I had loads of "gaming friends" it means sweet **** all in the real world :P

I can't find the particular clip, but there was an American TV show phone-in quiz and the presenter asked a question. You can hear the contestant furiously typing away at the keys, nothing but tap-a-tap-a-tap-a-tap-a. And then.. she gives the wrong answer, as she looked at the wrong link.

travis1976

It ruined finding a nice cheap guitar in a pawnshop etc and the seller not knowing what they have. No more pawnshop finds. Everyone now thinks their cheapie no-brand guitar is a Fender/Gibson prototype from the 60s

JustAddWater

Procasinator wrote: »

You're still the cat's pyjamas to me.

I can haz pyjamas?

mad muffin

The English language.

danniemcq

fibonaccii wrote: »

While i get what your saying, sitting and chatting to people on ventrilo for the night isnt the same as normal interaction. Online gaming ruined my social life for my teenage years, while I had loads of "gaming friends" it means sweet **** all in the real world :P

I get your point but that also could be said in the real world, for instance all my mates form my hometown, I had a fair few but now... I see them maybe once a year, have no idea what most of them are at, and to be honest don't really care.

Whereas people i know form online (on boards is a perfect example) I've seen more of them in the last few months than any of my old friends.

I guess it can go either way. Friends do come and go no matter what as your life and outlook alter. I had a choice in my teens, hang around with x group of people pretending to care about some crap about football/sport/something else but online I was able to talk to people who were like me.

Small town syndrome could have affected that too I suppose, if I was in a city there would have been more people that were into what i was into

pharmaton

It reminds me of how when I was growing up everyone was a stoner, the ones who smoke a spliff first thing in the morning type and after that can't be arsed to do anything else for the day, unless they actually work and use it as a way to numb themselves from the boredom of existence. The ones who didn't just hung out all day in someones kitchen/living room getting baked or zoned in some squishy couch trying to beat their high score on mario for ten hours.
They rarely had sex or functioning relationships, as functioning in the real world was so great a challenge that they rarely strayed outside their own comfort zone where few women gravitated and more often they settled with whatever form of the opposite sex came their way, whether they were attracted to them or not.
They ate crisps and chocolate and drank fizzy drinks because they'd have to get dressed to go to the supermarket and the paranoia just seemed like to great a hurdle to overcome when faced with your own ineptitude. Mostly though they just didn't seem to care about anything at all, including their own hygiene.

A few got lucky and met someone who changed their lives, married settled down and smoke became a secondary object of pleasure, savored for late nights and cosy weekend and it's performance enhanced. The internet is still young, hopefully it will get better with age.

Micky Dolenz

I've a mate who has always kept abreast of world events and history. He is forever reading and watching documentaries. What he doesn't know about music of the last 50 years isn't worth knowing.

He is a fountain of knowledge down the pub when we are boozing. Often coming out with nuggets of trivial information. Or so we thought until smart phones came on the scene. Turns out the lying bastard is full of sh!t.

thecatspjs

pharmaton wrote: »

It reminds me of how when I was growing up everyone was a stoner, the ones who smoke a spliff first thing in the morning type and after that can't be arsed to do anything else for the day, unless they actually work and use it as a way to numb themselves from the boredom of existence. The ones who didn't just hung out all day in someones kitchen/living room getting baked or zoned in some squishy couch trying to beat their high score on mario for ten hours.
They rarely had sex or functioning relationships, as functioning in the real world was so great a challenge that they rarely strayed outside their own comfort zone where few women gravitated and more often they settled with whatever form of the opposite sex came their way, whether they were attracted to them or not.
They ate crisps and chocolate and drank fizzy drinks because they'd have to get dressed to go to the supermarket and the paranoia just seemed like to great a hurdle to overcome when faced with your own ineptitude. Mostly though they just didn't seem to care about anything at all, including their own hygiene.

A few got lucky and met someone who changed their lives, married settled down and smoke became a secondary object of pleasure, savored for late nights and cosy weekend and it's performance enhanced. The internet is still young, hopefully it will get better with age.

Deep man. Real deep.

LeinsterDub

Yo Mamma wrote: »

And fully fleshed out here

:pac:

21. Its ruined once decent newspapers

Christ the Redeemer

I don't get the same kinda feeling when new music comes out.

the_syco

whiskeyman wrote: »

And then there's that magical wait of waiting for your bands new album... going to the record store than morning or after work and the anticipation of hearing track by track. Yeah, it can still be done, but there's a new generation that wouldnt even consider it.

I remember having to shell out £20 on an album I may not even like. I remember not knowing what was happening outside of Ireland, as the newspapers in the local shop only covered Ireland.

Yeah, f**k all that.

SEPT 23 1989

CEEFAX

who_me

thecatspjs wrote: »

Used to think I was amazing. Now the internet has hundreds of thousands of videos of people doing everything I do, but way better. Internet destroyed my self esteem and confidence.

I think this is a key point. "The internet" is now your peer group, which you compare yourself against. And as the pace of human interactions increases, we're less prepared to spend time working towards improving our status, we want instant fame.

Worst of all - we're expected to be unique and original. In a planet of 6 billion people where everyone is copying everyone else, following fashions, taking part in memes, the most important thing is to be an individual? Yikes.

Doctor DooM

I love the internet, but I REALLY miss the feeling when you saw a trailer in the cinema for a film you really wanted to happen but had no idea was being made.

Duggy747

Everything where Rule 34 applies.........which is everything I guess................no exceptions.

Also, how fun it was to take a picture of your dinner, head down to the pharmacist to get them developed, and then a few days later show the pictures of your meal to everyone.

For that Instagram effect, you just left the picture on the window sill to let the sun beat down on it.

Or how you'd text all your friends to let them know what you're wearing / eating?

wil

Duggy747 wrote: »

Everything where Rule 34 applies.........which is everything I guess................no exceptions.

Also, how fun it was to take a picture of your dinner, head down to the pharmacist to get them developed, and then a few days later show the pictures of your meal to everyone.

For that Instagram effect, you just left the picture on the window sill to let the sun beat down on it.

Or how you'd text all your friends to let them know what you're wearing / eating?

Ah the nostalgia,

or how you'd board an American bound concorde to hand deliver your hastily written humorous retort to the editor of the NYTimes regarding a page 7 article on the state of literacy in the Bible Belt.

or how you'd nick the latest 70mm print of Indiana Jones from the cinema and show it to all your friends on the wall of the local church after 10 o'clock mass

or how after a slightly miss-timed inquiry the whole pub would suddenly descend in a deafeningly uproarious discussion with hilarious repetition on the merits of the 5 year warranty on torches available from a certain Dunlearified establishment...

wazky

Things it ruined?

My knob, so much porn so little time.

pundy

pharmaton wrote: »

It reminds me of how when I was growing up everyone was a stoner, the ones who smoke a spliff first thing in the morning type and after that can't be arsed to do anything else for the day, unless they actually work and use it as a way to numb themselves from the boredom of existence. The ones who didn't just hung out all day in someones kitchen/living room getting baked or zoned in some squishy couch trying to beat their high score on mario for ten hours.
They rarely had sex or functioning relationships, as functioning in the real world was so great a challenge that they rarely strayed outside their own comfort zone where few women gravitated and more often they settled with whatever form of the opposite sex came their way, whether they were attracted to them or not.
They ate crisps and chocolate and drank fizzy drinks because they'd have to get dressed to go to the supermarket and the paranoia just seemed like to great a hurdle to overcome when faced with your own ineptitude. Mostly though they just didn't seem to care about anything at all, including their own hygiene.

A few got lucky and met someone who changed their lives, married settled down and smoke became a secondary object of pleasure, savored for late nights and cosy weekend and it's performance enhanced. The internet is still young, hopefully it will get better with age.

but what's that got to do with the interwebz? because they were getting baked while on the internet all day?

IvaBigWun

Internet porn has ruined people's expectations.

wil

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Internet names have ruined people's expectations.

It's like America, everything is bigger over there

Mountain Rescue

It destroyed you've been framed,I used to love that show,stupid you tube

Cee-Jay-Cee

It has resulted in everyone who has ever been sick or had an ache or pain think they had cancer.

DoozerT6

I actually miss not being able to find out things!

That sounds crazy, but if the randomest question pops into my head I can just Google the answer without having to a) look it up in a book somewhere, or b) ask around until I found someone who knew (or knew someone who knew) the answer, or just remain in blissful ignorance of what the No.1 song was on the day my cat was born. Information is now so accessible that it's taken the effort out of doing anything creative about finding out an answer.

pharmaton

pundy wrote: »

but what's that got to do with the interwebz? because they were getting baked while on the internet all day?

its an analogy, the juice is teh internets and everybody's strung out.