Things the interwebz ruined!

whiskeyman · 16-08-2013 10:35AM #1

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 · 16-08-2013 10:49AM

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 · 16-08-2013 10:49AM

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 · 16-08-2013 10:51AM

Kids playing outdoors less and less

The Cool · 16-08-2013 10:51AM

Interwebz + smart phones = crap table quizes

fibonaccii · 16-08-2013 10:52AM

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 · 16-08-2013 10:52AM

Encyclopaedia Britannica salesmen are fuming.

Procasinator · 16-08-2013 10:59AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:07AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:07AM

Social interaction.

keithclancy · 16-08-2013 11:15AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:25AM

Avon cosmetics sales

Record & DVD Shops

Larbre34 · 16-08-2013 11:28AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:31AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:32AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:35AM

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 · 16-08-2013 11:37AM

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.

16-08-2013 12:02PM

The Cool wrote: »

Interwebz + smart phones = crap table quizes

Interwebz + smart phones = status updates on the loo.

16-08-2013 12:18PM

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 · 16-08-2013 12:28PM

This song.

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

danniemcq · 16-08-2013 12:29PM

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 · 16-08-2013 12:30PM

Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'

GoodBridge · 16-08-2013 12:32PM

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 · 16-08-2013 12:35PM

I hear the Internet is run by one giant router

pundy · 16-08-2013 12:37PM

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 · 16-08-2013 12:41PM

justryan wrote: »

I hear the Internet is run by one giant router

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

:pac:

fibonaccii · 16-08-2013 12:44PM

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

16-08-2013 12:59PM

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 · 16-08-2013 01:04PM

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 · 16-08-2013 01:08PM

Procasinator wrote: »

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

I can haz pyjamas?

mad muffin · 16-08-2013 01:09PM

The English language.

Things the interwebz ruined!

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