What did people do before the smart phones and the internet?

iPad best ever invention

[1] Talk to each other face to face.
[2] Read books.
[3] Argue about "facts" that couldn't be instantly verified by googling.
[4] Constantly be in awe of the wondrous invention of sliced bread.

Red Telephone box and handful of 10p & 50p

2p and 10p in my day

Stopped using phone boxes when I learned how to pick Dad's phone lock

Had to go into newsagents.

Knocking one out to the lingerie section of Grattons catalogue. Happy memories!

One each.

watch vhs tapes all the time and played on 48k and C64.

some people in nearly 2017 still don't have broadband or any kind of proper internet connection mostly or all out in the sticks, they're more connected in 3rd world countries.

ipOd is greatest invention, not the iPad

Love my iPod and my iPad.

The world's greatest invention hasn't been invented yet

iPad is a glorified piece of nonsense, see iPad thread

We took acid & laughed at Hedgehogs ...

Dec 29, 2016 -- 4:52PM, TheBetterBettor wrote:

watch vhs tapes all the time and played on 48k and C64.

This and young people went out much more...pub etc

Dec 29, 2016 -- 4:04PM, Makybe_Diva wrote:

Hmmm

Tell the Grandkids stories which they were not able to 'Google; and dispute

HATE facebook

LOVE twitter

This and young people went out much more...pub etc
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agreed 2654 % 

pubs are dead these days

We daydreamed, we read and we questioned things.

I remember when I was a kid, this was about 30 years ago, you had computers and I'd play pacman whenever I could

internet wasn't a big thing then and everyone seemed perfectly happy

no everyone is obsessed with it, weird

You talked, you read newspapers, you watched TV ,  you went to the  cinema ,you read books ( a lot)  And wrote letters.
And you talked for hours on the phone. Red telephone boxes. A and B buttons, 2d, 3d,6d, 1 shilling,
Happy days.

Coach, pubs didn't really die until the smoking ban

Smoking ban coincidental to the demise of pubs though. Millennials don't go out boozing. Even the older lot stopped going out on the p!ss in exchange for 'experiences' they could post/show off on facebook with.

Never touch any social media myself... why would anyone of 'age' want to?

I did when it started as i was a techno geek, at the beginning i had websites in the early 90's hoping to make money from ringtones.....

Now, I hate all of it. Social media is all about who is pretty and who goes on better holidays than you. They have never been to Cornwall imho.

I will admit I did touch Facebook, quit, and then was convinced to try again. I quit again soon after (2010) and have had no desire to return to that or any other similar site.

And yes, I have been to Cornwall so all is good

Cornwall good but not a patch on Devon

Nights out with your mates were harder because they actually took planning. Admittedly only about a minute's worth of planning but even that is beyond anyone under 30.

You had to arrange to meet (say) outside the cinema at half past seven and if they weren't there you then had a quandary: had you been stood up? Had her bus been delayed? Was she at the other cinema round the corner? Was she waiting inside the cinema because it is a bit cold or started to rain? You didn't know what to do. These days you get to within about a mile and within half an hour then just phone or text the other person -- "I'm here; where are you?"

was it a blind date Ramruma ?

maybe she did turn up, saw what you looked liked, and went home

good point Aspro .