How did people pre 1998 survive?

efb · 12-06-2015 02:27AM

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

ardinn · 12-06-2015 02:28AM

efb wrote: »

Was one of the girls a bit butch?

Who

You're ma????

efb · 12-06-2015 02:29AM

ardinn wrote: »

Who

You're ma????

My mam's name isn't George

efb · 12-06-2015 02:30AM

Back then that phrase was allowed on boards

ardinn · 12-06-2015 02:33AM

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

SpaceTime · 12-06-2015 02:35AM

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

Swanley · 12-06-2015 02:45AM

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 · 12-06-2015 02:50AM

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-06-2015 02:56AM

Satellite television and playstation.

ArseBurger · 12-06-2015 03:25AM

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 · 12-06-2015 04:47AM

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 · 12-06-2015 05:50AM

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 · 12-06-2015 07:07AM

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

The Dark Side · 12-06-2015 07:18AM

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 · 12-06-2015 07:20AM

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 · 12-06-2015 07:20AM

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 · 12-06-2015 08:32AM

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 · 12-06-2015 08:39AM

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 · 12-06-2015 08:40AM

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 · 12-06-2015 08:45AM

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!!

hawkwind23 · 12-06-2015 08:56AM

BMX was essential , that's how you rolled

Suppose like the modern day corsa kids , you had mag wheels and clickers etc to jazz your wheels up.

Exploration in all its forms , that was the real deal

no google to explain things , you had to experience them.

Letters were the form of communication when you went to the other end of the country or over to IOM or England or that, I still have all the letters from girlfriends of the time

Friends , not the TV series , you tended to hang out with more friends in real life.

For fun we used to rob apples a bit like playing GTA of the time

anncoates · 12-06-2015 08:58AM

You'd head out for the day and have less or a clear plan about what you were doing. Meeting up with your mates was almost a lottery at times and made things a little more interesting.

salmocab · 12-06-2015 08:59AM

OP disc mans were sh1te you had to sit still, walkmans were far superior. It was great you made arrangements to meet in a pub at 8 o clock and everyone turned up, no dicks ringing at ten past saying they will meet you later in a different part of town.

campingcarist · 12-06-2015 09:07AM

When something hasn't beeninvented you don't miss it.

SpaceTime · 12-06-2015 09:08AM

We had plenty of good TV in the 1990s. The Simpsons was at its peak, the X-Files, Father Ted, Star Trek was still relatively watchable, the Late Late was presented by the latest in android technology and the Celtic tiger proper was in full swing.

We didn't have expectations of broadband because there wasn't really anything out there that used it. Animated gifs didn't need ADSL.

Most people I know at that stage had cable or satellite telly ... It was far from the dark ages.
I don't remember not having cable actually.

As for mobiles, they've been around in Ireland since 1984 but didn't become mass market until the 1990s.

It's not that long ago that none of us had smartphones ... The iPhone and android are very, very recent and some of the earlier attempts were practically unusable - I'm sorry Nokia but you made lovely hardware and mondboggingly confusing operating systems.

Remember WAP and iMode ?!? Back when network operators thought they could shaft us with walled gardens and charging 5.99 for a custom ringtone lol

Asmooh · 12-06-2015 09:09AM

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?

b.t.w I was living in Holland, we had most things already.

No broadband
We did have this at home already in 1996.

No digital television
Do you even know the difference?

my mobile phone in 1997.

anncoates · 12-06-2015 09:11AM

salmocab wrote: »

It was great you made arrangements to meet in a pub at 8 o clock and everyone turned up, no dicks ringing at ten past saying they will meet you later in a different part of town.

We would always meet at somewhere like the central bank or TCD before seeing where to go so the serially late mate couldn't just text you to say they're "running late" and would instead have to randomly search all the pubs you might be in because you wouldn't wait around like saps for them.

SpaceTime · 12-06-2015 09:13AM

Asmooh wrote: »

b.t.w I was living in Holland, we had most things already.

No broadband
We did have this at home already in 1996.

No digital television
Do you even know the difference?

I was living between Ireland and France and we had most things already too. Digital TV actually launched on satellite in the 1990s most people have had it for years. It's just Saorview was late to market and still carries hardly any content other than what was on Irish terrestrial TV anyway...

Asmooh · 12-06-2015 09:14AM

SpaceTime wrote: »

I was living between Ireland and France and we had most things already too. Digital TV actually launched on satellite in the 1990s most people have had it for years. It's just Saorview was late to market and still carries hardly any content other than what was on Irish terrestrial TV anyway...

Oh sorry I forgot

we had satellite back in 1993-94 or so already

Flippyfloppy · 12-06-2015 09:14AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

there was a lot less elfen safety back then for litte'uns.

Yeah!! Stupid safety....where does it get off :mad:

How did people pre 1998 survive?

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