WAIT! So you're saying that there weren't smartphones OR internet when you were a kid????

HardLoper wrote:

A set of encyclopedias with topics from A-Z on our bookshelf. I don't know people got around before MapQuest and Google Maps, though.

Aren't you younger than me? I had the Internet in 1994 and Encarta before then.

look it up wrote:

Born in 2000 wrote:

How did you ever look things up? How did you call or text people when you weren't home?

Go to google and look up "American Inventors"

If those are the results that google has decided for you to see, then imagine what else they've cooked up? Can you really trust who you use to look things up anymore?

Which of those listed in the results is not an inventor? If you want a list of the best american inventors then google "best american inventors" and you will see the results you are looking for. Seems more like your problem is using the internet rather not trusting it.

Instead of texting you wrote notes in school. Usually girls thought you were weird if they got a note from you. The ultimate was the girls phone number and then you had to get the nerve up to call her. One phone line for the whole house with a phone on each floor! You could get a phone with two lines and it would beep if another call came in.

In addition to being able to communicate with others via actual conversation, life before all of this technology was pretty darned good.

No Letsrun.com and no fat Kardashians.

Fritos wrote:

look it up wrote:

Go to google and look up "American Inventors"

If those are the results that google has decided for you to see, then imagine what else they've cooked up? Can you really trust who you use to look things up anymore?

Which of those listed in the results is not an inventor? If you want a list of the best american inventors then google "best american inventors" and you will see the results you are looking for. Seems more like your problem is using the internet rather not trusting it.

I think that he's got bigger problems than using the Internet. He obviously believes the food for the brain-dead fed to him by the alt-right conspiracy fellowship. Of course, most of this is spoon-fed to him on the Internet.

UCLA didn't invent the Internet until 1969 before they had toilets and fresh water ;-)

Runningart2004 wrote:

Answering machines.

I am sadden to discover I'm the only person on here that didn't have an answering machine when I was a kid.

My parents still get trip ticks. The whole travel agent business is fuzzy to me because I was a kid, but being able to shop all the airlines and hotels at once is amazing.

Kids under 30 get completely confused by directions like "north." Having to look up maps in the phone book helped understand how things were laid out.

The worst was having to drive your running routes if you wanted the mileage. Gmaps was a godsend. Then I got a garmin and mind blown.

Oh God. I forgot about running logs. It is easier to look back through my paper logs than weblogs, but now I don't have to do math to get weekly or annual mileage.

Born in 2000 wrote:

How did you ever look things up? How did you call or text people when you weren't home?

This is literally the most pathetic, obvious, and uninspired single sentence of a troll.

He got like 20 serious replies besides his other account talking to himself.

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txRUNNERgirl wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

A set of encyclopedias with topics from A-Z on our bookshelf. I don't know people got around before MapQuest and Google Maps, though.

Aren't you younger than me? I had the Internet in 1994 and Encarta before then.

The poor and lower middle class did not have the Internet.

My first email was in college in 1996 on a Vax terminal lol.

In 1997 I saw my first computer lab.

Alan

We vacation on a pristine lake in Maine for 1 week each July. No cell service or internet connection. Feels weird for the first day. After that I couldn't care less about what's going on back at the office, or on Capital Hill.

Sara Palin wrote:

Runningart2004 wrote:

Answering machines.

I am sadden to discover I'm the only person on here that didn't have an answering machine when I was a kid.

n.

Not only did nobody have answering machines, we were on the same line as 3 other households. If they were already using the phone, you had to wait. Of course you could eavesdrop on their conversation while you waited.

HardLoper wrote: I don't know people got around before MapQuest and Google Maps, though.

Maps, bro.

Thomas Guide was the norm in my area. You had one or more in your car depending on how far you drove around.

Back in the mid-Pleistocene, we didn't even have the termite stick or the inclined plane. We got by. Well, enough of us did.

LMAO! You addle-pated 2017 troglodytes can't even produce enough Ununpentium to focus a gravity beam into space and warp the space to you. It's amazing how you microcephalic buffoons even exist at all without space and time travel. And you call yourselves technological.

How did you ever look things up? Libraries with books, yes, books, ever seen one? Encyclopedias , news papers, radio, tv.

How did you call or text people when you weren't home? There were these strange machines that you deposit coins in it and allowed you to make a phone call...Payphones. Also there was a strange device called telegrams or telegraphs. Then came a little plastic boxed looking device called pagers.

May I ask...why are you so ignorant? You were born like that?

Runningart2004 wrote:

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

Aren't you younger than me? I had the Internet in 1994 and Encarta before then.

The poor and lower middle class did not have the Internet.

My first email was in college in 1996 on a Vax terminal lol.

In 1997 I saw my first computer lab.

Alan

1994 is pretty early, I'm not sure it was available in my area yet. I also first sent an email in 1996 to my 1st grade student teacher.

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Sara Palin wrote:

I am sadden to discover I'm the only person on here that didn't have an answering machine when I was a kid.

n.

Not only did nobody have answering machines, we were on the same line as 3 other households. If they were already using the phone, you had to wait. Of course you could eavesdrop on their conversation while you waited.

I remember rotary phones and not having an answering machine as a kid. Wikipedia says that answering machines started becoming widespread in 1984. I don't remember for sure, but my family probably got an answering machine sometime after that while I was in high school.

1G Phones began in Japan in 1979. The US didn't start 1G until 1983.