How Irish People would surf or browse the internet Forty Years ago on a Sunday?

Whats a Sundayas?

I got a dial-up modem in 1995 and was one of the first to have one.Myself and a colleague at work both got one at the same time and it was a talking point for weeks about what you could do with it. I remember spending hours trying to get point to point gaming working with him!

So to answer your question OP, 40 years ago no one in Ireland would've been browsing the internet on a Sunday or any other day.

I suggest your next browsing should be a bit of history!

OP Sunday Press and Sunday Independent gave everybody their weekly fix in those days. Need to do a little research on your own.

Deleted User wrote: »

The world wide web is only 30 years old.

40 years ago I imagine people went to mass and then read the Sunday press .

The Sunday mass was the first stop. All the latest deaths, parochial events etc would be got there, either from the priest on the altar or through the varied discussions that took place at the back of every church. Then, the pub was the next stop where more information was passed around. Tidbits of information were dispensed usually followed by "That's as true as I'm standing here" or " so-and-so told me that and he/she never tells a lie!". Finally, the Sunday paper (Sunday Press or Sunday Independent, depending on whether you were Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil!).
Those were the days!!:)

They would be painting their homes orange and brown while they listened to ABBA on the record player

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

They would be painting their homes orange and brown while they listened to ABBA on the record player

It was practically the 80s it would be more

Certain types of sites would be talked about, but not in a good way, more likely condemned as filth

They'd look for stories of fallen women (fallen men never existed), occasions of sin, dens of iniquity, and most delightfully- they could surf Sam fox and Linda Lusardi without having to borrow the brother in London's smuggled copy of the Sun....

Deleted User wrote: »

So how would Irish People browse the net insofar as what sites they would visit on a Sunday as opposed to other days?
This might be more suitable to Aul wans & Aul Fellas and not some June 2019 registered boardsie btw.

40 years ago in this country the internet would be closed on a Sunday

The Family Album website would also be popular

There were things like online indexes, and some message forums - they were even called mailing lists.
Google didn't exist. The dial-up thing made it slow - took ages to view even a simple graphic - and of course, nobody in the house could use the phone while the computer was on!
(It was before mobile phones, too)

"searching" as such was not so much a thing - you needed to know the destination URL. That thar Google crawler hadn't been invented yet.
Then we had Alta Vista and then Yahoo!

But what did people look for? The same as always, comrade: Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, politics and gossip. Human nature does not change.

Day Lewin wrote: »

There were things like online indexes, and some message forums - they were even called mailing lists.
Google didn't exist. The dial-up thing made it slow - took ages to view even a simple graphic - and of course, nobody in the house could use the phone while the computer was on!
(It was before mobile phones, too)

"searching" as such was not so much a thing - you needed to know the destination URL. That thar Google crawler hadn't been invented yet.
Then we had Alta Vista and then Yahoo!

But what did people look for? The same as always, comrade: Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, politics and gossip. Human nature does not change.

well that would have been difficult as URLs did not exist 40 years ago. They were only invented 25 years ago