New Posts For Thread: How did people manage before the internet?https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internetApplies to any big meeting but how did everyone manage the day before a big meeting before it?No Racingpost or Attheraces to check the form the night before, no oddschecker to update yourself on the odds constantly in the days before hand, lack of seShrewd Dude, just read your post about course entry. I doubt if racing entry charges have kept up with inflation and certainly not with the rise in football prices. The cost of the cheapest enclosures may have gone up a bit faster but tatts and membehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423232542#423232542Shrewd Dude, just read your post about course entry. I doubt if racing entry charges have kept up with inflation and certainly not with the rise in football prices. The cost of the cheapest enclosures may have gone up a bit faster but tatts and membeSat, 10 Apr 2010 02:59:01 -0500it were 10 of us kids to a bed when i were a lad and i used to get me brothers brothers hand- me- downshttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423232534#423232534it were 10 of us kids to a bed when i were a lad and i used to get me brothers brothers hand- me- downsSat, 10 Apr 2010 02:55:39 -0500I can remember when we first had electricity so the internet is still a novelty for me. At 65, I can now look back at a lot of change and find it interesting how young people find it hard to imagine life without this or that. I lived on a farm and unhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423232498#423232498I can remember when we first had electricity so the internet is still a novelty for me. At 65, I can now look back at a lot of change and find it interesting how young people find it hard to imagine life without this or that. I lived on a farm and unSat, 10 Apr 2010 02:51:44 -0500"How did people manage before the internet?"They bought Hustler & went for a 'walk' in the woods.....https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423232014#423232014"How did people manage before the internet?"They bought Hustler & went for a 'walk' in the woods.....Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:42:18 -0500In the betting shops the prices came over the loudspeaker. As the prices changed this poor fella had to work across huge sheets to update the prices for the punters with felt pen markers. He was the main man. If you were quick you could take the lashttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423232002#423232002In the betting shops the prices came over the loudspeaker. As the prices changed this poor fella had to work across huge sheets to update the prices for the punters with felt pen markers. He was the main man. If you were quick you could take the lasSat, 10 Apr 2010 00:12:42 -0500I often frquented early morning news agents or late night vendors ,fook knows how i was ever up for the racing .yet alone getting to the shop to put a bet on .https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423231998#423231998I often frquented early morning news agents or late night vendors ,fook knows how i was ever up for the racing .yet alone getting to the shop to put a bet on .Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:38:47 -0500Carrier pigeon.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423231994#423231994Carrier pigeon.Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:49:56 -0500I had to wait for the teletext man to drop our handset in to our house when i was a kid because it was faulty, waited days & days ,but when it arrived ....oh my god!https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423231990#423231990I had to wait for the teletext man to drop our handset in to our house when i was a kid because it was faulty, waited days & days ,but when it arrived ....oh my god!Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:25:45 -0500I can still remember flicking through Ceefax. Page 460 - 480, I think.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423231986#423231986I can still remember flicking through Ceefax. Page 460 - 480, I think.Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:19:04 -0500And most of them still can't read the form!!! :0https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/23626110/how-did-people-manage-before-the-internet?post_id=423231982#423231982And most of them still can't read the form!!! :0Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:14:57 -0500