How did people pre 1998 survive?

Kermit.de.frog

No broadband
No digital television
No mobile phones (except rare gigantic bricks)
No lots of other things we have now.


Even worse - how did people in the 80's survive?:eek: At least they had discmans in the 90's.


And how about the 70's?:eek::eek: Some tvs still did not have colour!

It just, it just does not bare thinking about how bleak life must have been.

Is there any boardsies of this vintage on AH to share their experiences of these desolate times?

Duke O Smiley

Lots and lots of ****

Young Blood

It was a lot more social back then.

StewartGriffin

They lived under a rock in a swamp, held rampant homophobic views, and predicted extraordinary snow events every time they saw a cloud on the horizon.

Niemoj

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Loads and loads from ****

FYP

Just a little Samba

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Lots and lots of ****

To the pictures of women in the lingerie section of clothes catalogues.

Was a particular fan of the plus size girls in the oxendales catalogue myself. Was boob obsessed as a young lad.

c_man

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Lots and lots of ****

Dunnes Winter/Christmas Catalouge, lingerie pages :cool: I'm getting hot under the collar just thinking about it.

NachoBusiness

It was great.. you could fcuk off for the day and people had to deal with the fact that they couldn't get in touch with you until you came back.

Mister Vain

The Sega Mega Drive kept me occupied for most of the 90's. That and the lingerie section in the catalogs.

Charlie19

A couple of chess nuts and a pair of laces.

Great crack

SHOVELLER

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Payphones

Junkyard Tom

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Is there any boardsies of this vintage on AH to share their experiences of these desolate times?

In the summer I spent quite a lot of time riding the rapids of the local river on an inflated lorry tyre tube, climbing up rock faces/trees/drain pipes, playing soccer and other games outside, jumping off shed roofs, building stuff like 'camps' and go-karts out of wood and rusty nails etc.

I think we were more free back then than kids are these days - there was a lot less elfen safety back then for litte'uns.

RayM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Lots and lots of ****

Over what though? Live at Three?

Ah, Thelma...

emigrate2012

I found regular breathing and 3 square meals did wonders....

Also dial up internet had it's good points,them **** were so much more rewarding when it took twenty minutes for the pic to load.

Kermit.de.frog

emigrate2012 wrote: »

Also dial up internet had it's good points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

efb

iol.ie

KungPao

This nonsense annoys me.

Life was actually better back then, much more social and less narcissistic.


I do like widescreen TVs with a decent resolution though!

Grab All Association

I had a Nokia 5110 in 1998/9
We had dialup (like 3 midband only faster)
Cablelink
Rté Two showed TV shows like Frasier, The X-Files and Happy Days
Dunnes Stores in Thurles had a vending machine which sold cans of Dunnes Cola for 20p (Coca Cola was 50p at the time)

Swanley

Chris___ wrote: »

I had a Nokia 5110 in 1998/9
We had dialup (like 3 midband only faster)
Cablelink
Rté Two showed TV shows like Frasier, The X-Files and Happy Days
Dunnes Stores in Thurles had a vending machine which sold cans of Dunnes Cola for 20p (Coca Cola was 50p at the time)

Did you have any colored/custom facias for the '10?

efb

Chris___ wrote: »

I had a Nokia 5110 in 1998/9
We had dialup (like 3 midband only faster)
Cablelink
Rté Two showed TV shows like Frasier, The X-Files and Happy Days
Dunnes Stores in Thurles had a vending machine which sold cans of Dunnes Cola for 20p (Coca Cola was 50p at the time)

Happy Days??? You're bring Happy Days to the table?

efb

KungPao wrote: »

This nonsense annoys me.

Life was actually better back then, much more social and less narcissistic.


I do like widescreen TVs with a decent resolution though!

Bollix. Life is better now.

KungPao

efb wrote: »

Happy Days??? You're bring Happy Days to the table?

Sure, I watched Mork and Mindy. What of it!?

porsche959

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

No mobile phones (except rare gigantic bricks)

Mobile phones were common enough among the yuppie types in London from the early 1990s on, in fact Norman Lamont put a tax on them in one of his budgets, describing them as a "modern-day curse".

By the mid 1990s in Ireland, they were becoming reasonably common among business types but even then it was considered rather poor etiquette to use one in a public place such as on a bus or in a rail carriage.

You think progress is always good? I beg to differ!

KungPao

efb wrote: »

Bollix. Life is better now.

Na. Life is boring when everthing is so easy. No challenge, no mystery, maaan.

efb

KungPao wrote: »

Sure, I watched Mork and Mindy. What of it!?

Its wasn't exactly 90's tv, Friends would have been a better example. :pac:

efb

KungPao wrote: »

Na. Life is boring when everthing is so easy. No challenge, no mystery, maaan.

We now have Negative Equity.

ardinn

I dunno about this argument that it was better - It was better for me because I was a child and was carefree - but life gets tougher. I do remember being outside ALL the time - not coming home until it was dark during the holidays and getting into all sorts of adventures.

I imagine Kids nowadays are gonna grow up to be unsociable twats tho - I am a gamer myself but cant imagine being stuck inside on a console all summer, which alot of kids do nowadays apparently!

KungPao

efb wrote: »

Its wasn't exactly 90's tv, Friends would have been a better example. :pac:

Jesus. Ok then, fcking Rosanne! Will that do?

What a ****e show.

efb

KungPao wrote: »

Jesus. Ok then, fcking Rosanne! Will that do?

What a ****e show.

I liked Rosanne. (the sitcom)

Grab All Association

Swanley wrote: »

Did you have any colored/custom facias for the '10?

3 covers. One blue and one red genuine Nokia express on covers and a cheap Matrix style flip cover with GSM wrote on it.

efb

ardinn wrote: »

I dunno about this argument that it was better - It was better for me because I was a child and was carefree - but life gets tougher. I do remember being outside ALL the time - not coming home until it was dark during the holidays and getting into all sorts of adventures.

I imagine Kids nowadays are gonna grow up to be unsociable twats tho - I am a gamer myself but cant imagine being stuck inside on a console all summer, which alot of kids do nowadays apparently!

did you have 3 friends and a dog? Was one of the girls a bit butch?

efb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KODZtjOIPg

ardinn

efb wrote: »

Was one of the girls a bit butch?

Who







You're ma????

efb

ardinn wrote: »

Who







You're ma????

My mam's name isn't George

efb

Back then that phrase was allowed on boards

ardinn

Durin the eighties the mods were pretty lax here - It's all that Health n safety has the place ruined!

SpaceTime

Couple this total boredom with lack of condoms and now you know why some people had 22 kids!

Swanley

Chris___ wrote: »

3 covers. One blue and one red genuine Nokia express on covers and a cheap Matrix style flip cover with GSM wrote on it.

Nice combo! Respect!

I had a blue cover too, genuine of course. I found it really expressed my personality in a way which no other coloured fascia at the time was able to do.

Pinch Flat

I was kept busy listening to c60s mainly. If you could get CrO2 ones it was a bonus.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Satellite television and playstation.

ArseBurger

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

No broadband
No digital television
No mobile phones (except rare gigantic bricks)
No lots of other things we have now.


Even worse - how did people in the 80's survive?:eek: At least they had discmans in the 90's.


And how about the 70's?:eek::eek: Some tvs still did not have colour!

It just, it just does not bare thinking about how bleak life must have been.

Is there any boardsies of this vintage on AH to share their experiences of these desolate times?

In 1998, in Dublin I had:

Digital TV (Telecom Eireann Cube)
A small mobile phone (Ericsson Flip)
A 256K digital data connection into my house
Usenet was a wonderful resource
There were less a**holes on the Internet
People who worked in IT actually knew how computers worked
MP3s were a thing
Movies were AVI

Pretty good times I have to admit.

The 80s were great.

We built our own computers
We had things like the ZX80 and ZX81 in the early 80s
We learned how computers actually work
'Bought' shareware from magazines and loaded them from tape or floppy
One word - Phrack
People from the 80's know about tapping the ringer on a phone


The 70s were pretty cool too but I was more interested icecream and splash pools back then

Galwayguy35

We had a black and white TV at home until 1991, I remember thinking the colour TV was the best thing since sliced bread.

mikemac1

Clear plastic covers on books = well off family
Wallpaper on school books = poor family
Brown paper on school books = social welfare family

Bad times

OP, we had internet. We had imacs in 1998 also

Anyone remember the golden pages for finding websites. Ah bless

Merces

In the eighties and nineties video games were better and Ireland had a good soccer team.

The Dark Side

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

In the summer I spent quite a lot of time riding the rapids of the local river on an inflated lorry tyre tube,

This is a euphemism - right?

For Forks Sake

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

We had a black and white TV at home until 1991, I remember thinking the colour TV was the best thing since sliced bread.

Sliced bread having been invented in 1989 by Jack Charlton.

The Dark Side

Personally I think it's very unfair the way teenage boys have such easy access to hard-core pornography.

In my day you had to sit through a 2hour French drama on Channel 4 to see 5 seconds of sideboob.

Wompa1

My mother moved from New York city in the 80's to a small rural village in the west of Ireland. The way she describes it, it sounded like one of the most extreme adjustments to make.

Two TV Channels that didn't come on until the late afternoon.
Never having enough hot water
My grandparents made her convert to Catholicism. She had to do a Communion and Confirmation...she would do readings at mass and locals would snigger at how she pronounced certain words with her accent
You could not buy groceries anywhere in the village, you'd have to drive to Galway city which was 35 minutes away and didn't even have a McDonalds back then.
A movie would come out in the US and would take 6 months to come out in Ireland. Ditto certain popular songs
Pubs would be full of children on Sundays

Ireland has progressed a lot in a short space of time. It's a wonder what money can do, huh!?

Captain Chaos

Merces wrote: »

In the eighties and nineties video games were better and Ireland had a good soccer team.

The summer weather was far better too. It was actually possible to get sun burned by just walking around.

OldGoat

The most significant advance in technology for me was when we were allowed to use ballpoint pens rather than ink and nib pens. In a recent fit of luddite-ism I bought myself a fountain pen.

shamrock55

I look at my life as a kid in the 80s and all the freedom i had, out the door in the morning playing with friends, climbing trees cycling with no helmet,coming home covered in **** or holes in me pants, then i look kids now mammy and daddy with them at the park, cant go outside the door without a helmet of fcukin kneepads on, god forbid they come in the door with a few grass stains,no freedom whatsoever, these times suck!!