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Things we did before the internet and smart phones

eviltimeban

Watched MTV / Chart show / TOTP to see new music videos.

Arranged to meet someone at a specific time and specific place.

Called someone's house phone.

Called to a friend's house without knowing if they were in or not.

Used the newspaper to look at cinema listings / jobs / TV show times / sport results.

Carried those little Dart timetable cards around.

Used phone cards.

Bought music in record stores.

Used real cameras and brought photos to the chemist for developing.

Used pocket diaries / filofaxes.

Sent faxes.

Used Teletext / Ceefax to check the weather.

Watched the news just once a day.

Waved our arms in the air at gigs.

Be uncontactable for hours at a time.

Made our parents worry because of the last point.

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whisky_galore

The ar*e must have fallen out of the encyclopedia market, haven't seen a door-to-door World Book salesman in years!

Pinch Flat

Cb radio

smash

Did anyone else have a pager?

whisky_galore

kfallon wrote: »

We didn't take pictures of our willies, gees, boobs and arses!!

Would be rather embarrassing picking up the prints from the local chemist's.....but OK for all the world to see now.

gimmick

Going to the video shop and having a tantrum of epic proportions if the previous renter had not rewound the tape you have got.

monflat

Have we all lost ability to talk to one another now without an electronic device in our hands?

I think we don't talk to one another as much any more

Paddycrumlinman

Used to stock up on the Sun newspaper for some fap material.

Read the back of shampoo bottles when taking a **** Or the said Sun newspaper to kill two birds with one stone.

smash

monflat wrote: »

Have we all lost ability to talk to one another now without an electronic device in our hands?

Not at all. I have lost the ability to write though.

gimmick

Actaully a big one and one I think its a vital rite of passage for any teen, and that is ringing the girls house and running the risk of a parent or older brother answering. Frightening. Similarly having to call to the door for them for the first time rather than texting "Im outside".

The other side of it is getting that longed for phone call but one of your parents answers the phone. The embarrassment of having to tell them all about this new girl who you wish to plough, that she is very clever, has all her own teeth and is not into drugs. UGH.

eviltimeban

Luke92 wrote: »

Before smart phones I used my mobile phone to arrange meeting times and didn't show up at a friends house unless he answered his mobile and said it was OK to head over.

I suppose I'm thinking more mobile phones full stop. I got my first one 1998, which means I spent those vital late teenager / early 20s years not knowing if anyone was in.

eviltimeban

gimmick wrote: »

The embarrassment of having to tell them all about this new girl who you wish to plough, that she is very clever, has all her own teeth and is not into drugs. UGH.

"Yes father. Her name is Felicity and I wish to plough her this very eve".

whisky_galore

Having to write a strongly worded letter to the newspaper's letters column in order to vent.

eviltimeban

Going to a travel agency to book flights / holidays.

Reading the "Be Our Guest" brochure to pick a good hotel in Ireland.

Going inside a bank to pay bills.

Not knowing what anyone thought of the latest episode of a TV show until the next day.

GL scrappy

Reading the Buy&Sell on the jax, dunnydeal on the smartphone has made the experience richer.

kfallon

Paddycrumlinman wrote: »

Read the back of shampoo bottles when taking a **** Or the said Sun newspaper to kill two birds with one stone.

A 'pedal & crank' while you shíte? :eek:

Gerry T

Got off the couch to change the TV channel, no remote control back then !

IamNotNumber

Learned about womens bodies from the lingerie sections in clothes catalogues.

Ash.J.Williams

getting a few minutes of metal or REAL indie on the chart show!

KKkitty

Had only about 2 or 3 stations on the TV. Had no remote for the TV so actually having to get up and change the volume or channel. Rewinding vhs tapes cos someone else didn't. Passed notes to each other in school.

Miaireland

Wrinting letters if you need particular information from a company rather than being able to get it online.

Menas

We had one channel when I was a kid. RTE.
We did at one stage have the english channels but they put a blocker in, on the border, to stop us getting the signal.
So we did not really need a remote control until cable arrived in our town in 1983.

cloud493

Sit in a cinema screen and actually watch the movie.

chewed

Trawling the Irish Times recruitment pages on a Friday and then posting out your CV (printed roughly on a dot matrix printer) in an envelope and waiting patiently for days, weeks, months.....years, for a response!

Or going to the library to do research, instead of Google and Wikipedia.

Masala

- Waiting from Thursday to the following Thursday to see who was No.1 in the Charts
- turn on the Radio for either RTE1 or 2FM
- dial your friends number in public phone box by tapping out the digits on the little push-down things (and using 0 on the dial for 0!!) cos you had no money to call - or the bloody slot thing was jammed with an English 10pence!. And auld wans looking in at you messing!

Ruu

Listen to Atlantic 252. :cool:

Just me..oh.

Grayson

cloud493 wrote: »

Sit in a cinema screen and actually watch the movie.

After you looked up the time the film was showing in a paper.

I remember queueing for ages in the rain to call home when I was in college.

smash

Masala wrote: »

dial your friends number in public phone box by tapping out the digits on the little push-down things

Buttons?

Masala wrote: »

(and using 0 on the dial for 0!!).

Grayson

Ruu wrote: »

Listen to Atlantic 252. :cool:

Just me..oh.

between 7 and 10 on a Saturday.

DEFTLEFTHAND

lol I still do things mentioned here like read books and newspapers, keep a planner/diary, buy and listen to physical copies of music recordings.

Masala

smash wrote: »

Buttons?

......if you have to ask....you're too young!! You had to be there really!!