What was life like before social media?

bjork

@Lia_Lia> I bumped in to someone at a party I hadn't seen in a long time and the first thing they rattled off was my phone number



In my day, we didn't even have a phone in the house. 20 pence in the nearest phone box. Call cards where the business when they came out!! No more carrying around big 20 pence coins (because they were bigger in those days) They had different pictures on them. You'd buy them in the shop separately.

True Story: Phone boxes would sometimes get jammed with coins. I hit one once after it swallowed my money and the coins poured out like a casino. Off I got on the bus in to town and spent it on marathons

bjork

My first mobile phone I thought the credit worked like a call card and asked my friend where was the slot for putting it in

Credit was sold on little cardboard cards in those days



The shame

One eyed Jack

bjork wrote: »

My first mobile phone I thought the credit worked like a call card and asked my friend where was the slot for putting it in

Credit was sold on little cardboard cards in those days



The shame

The SIM cards themselves were just as big as the scratch cards -


http://www.mobileworld.org/sim_cards/ireland.html


I had an 088 phone myself, a Motorola brick, then got myself an 087 phone when the analog to digital switchover happened, with a fancy little screen, and a 'memory' to store numbers!

JG009

We didn't need phones.
It was all for one and one for all.

zeffabelli

I have a pre-internet and a post internet memory.

I remember the house phone number growing up. I remember my dad's phone number who is dead 15 years, but I could not tell you any of MY OWN phone numbers that I have today.

It's like the camera and photographs, you start to remember the photos of people more than you sustain the real memories of them.

Mister Vain

Before laptops I just had a lapdog. He gave me hours of company.

bjork

Mister Vain wrote: »

Before laptops I just had a lapdog. He gave me hours of company.

We didn't even have a lap dog, all we had was a lap dance :pac:

Mister Vain

bjork wrote: »

We didn't even have a lap dog, all we had was a lap dance :pac:

That's some nice company too.

whatismyname

You couldn't just log on to the internet and find a photo of your teenage crush from 15 years ago, wonder what on earth you were thinking, and thank your lucky stars you didn't end up with them.

Mars Bar

I dragged my dad out to the garden most days to play football! To be honest, I'm not sure what I did on wet evenings.

I do like the fact that I got through school when I did. I call it the "Golden Age". It was after the nuns and before social media!

Agricola

Quick search online and you can usually locate people who you havent spoken to in half a lifetime, their whole life story there for everyone to read. Quite a change from back in the day when people you lost touch with were often lost forever.

5star02707

Would love to bring this thread back up

Back when i was a kid, i was barely home playing outside nowadays kids are glued to their gadgets from the moment they wake up til they fall asleep.

jjbrien

5star02707 wrote: »

Would love to bring this thread back up

Back when i was a kid, i was barely home playing outside nowadays kids are glued to their gadgets from the moment they wake up til they fall asleep.

Best leave an old thread dead i think

Day Lewin

jjbrien wrote: »

Best leave an old thread dead i think

So why has the boards.ie Twitter account just tweeted the link to this thread?

https://twitter.com/boards

jjbrien

Day Lewin wrote: »

So why has the boards.ie Twitter account just tweeted the link to this thread?

https://twitter.com/boards

No idea but the mods hate old theads been dug up

koumi

mine was pretty great maybe twenty years ago