tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post5543478500918588217..comments2024-03-27T08:23:33.621-04:00Comments on Go Retro!: What Life Was Like Before the InternetPamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122952408610512684noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-60105529794892622732014-01-04T01:35:48.572-05:002014-01-04T01:35:48.572-05:00What I remember from before the Internet is going ...What I remember from before the Internet is going to the cinema. If you wanted to go to the cinema with someone you needed to get the paper on the day (or the day before) to find out what sessions were on.<br /><br />You then needed to plan to meet each other at a place and time by calling them at home. There were no mobile phones, so you had to be where you said you were going to be at the appropriate time.<br /><br />You then paid with cash you'd withdrawn from a bank branch with your passbook (which is where you found your balance - printed in the little book).<br /><br />Maybe it's rose coloured glasses, but I look back at this fondly (and I'm only 35!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-66700515551879987802013-05-16T16:47:13.370-04:002013-05-16T16:47:13.370-04:00And since there was no internet, when you did show...And since there was no internet, when you did show up at your friend's house they usually WERE messing around on bikes outside. At least the internet has redeemed itself a bit with meetup.com, which takes social networking back out into physical world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-75718029692144544872011-05-23T10:21:39.961-04:002011-05-23T10:21:39.961-04:00My first week of college in the Fall of 1998, I as...My first week of college in the Fall of 1998, I asked a librarian where the card catalog was, and felt like such a dusty old dweeb when she pointed me to the computer cluster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-73146323986386760362011-05-10T16:33:52.426-04:002011-05-10T16:33:52.426-04:00I use to be verbally passive about the Internet. ...I use to be verbally passive about the Internet. Until I lost phone service for a while and could not "log on." <br /><br />I never realized how often I do quick checks to get information or order something, or send note, until I could not do it anymore.<br /><br />It is a two edged sword of course. I am a fan of old time radio and for most of my life I had a few dozen cassettes representing about twenty shows. With the Internet I can get dozens of episodes of almost any OTR show there was. A definite improvement. <br /><br />However, I do miss the card catalog and miss finding a related book in my searches. Like finding a new word when browsing the dictionary. <br /><br />Now all you get from the internet is what you are looking for.Laceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15518371151074926960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-7211426951454113202011-02-15T05:32:26.373-05:002011-02-15T05:32:26.373-05:00Thanx for those remindings of the old time.
I thin...Thanx for those remindings of the old time.<br />I think the think being all this is TIME. Things go so fast today that you do 100 things in a minute.<br />Before, everything took much more time to be done, and you learned to wait, something that most people consider such a trouble now.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13994725873083752270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-27849087201655278442011-02-08T14:15:16.044-05:002011-02-08T14:15:16.044-05:00I agree! I consider myself lucky that even though ...I agree! I consider myself lucky that even though I'm young, I do remember when we didn't own a computer and we wrote letters and hell, even listened to records! I have a feeling that to a lot of kids today (even my friend, a freshman at NYU who admits she can't remember a time when her family didn't have a computer), that seems very sci-fi. And I do know how the Dewey Decimal System works/worked! :)Allisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-87821034272050485952011-02-01T17:24:08.344-05:002011-02-01T17:24:08.344-05:00You didn't have to go to a store to buy things...You didn't have to go to a store to buy things. The Sears and Roebuck catalog has been around longer than computers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-37099451210541571842011-02-01T12:17:28.822-05:002011-02-01T12:17:28.822-05:00I agree with what Jodi and her husband say. I do m...I agree with what Jodi and her husband say. I do miss the old ways but also can't imagine life without the internet now. Sometimes it seems like people esp. younger ones are too dependent on technology. I still like reading my newspaper and my brother thinks I'm strange and should read news on the internet.LaraAnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15460415207474314306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-3969815014101846222011-02-01T10:47:51.595-05:002011-02-01T10:47:51.595-05:00Something I really enjoy is online college classes...Something I really enjoy is online college classes. I do at least one distant learning class a semester and I find that there's a lot more class participation, probably because everyone gets to think out their thoughts before responding. It always helps me understand the work better and can be more helpful than a straight lecture sometimes. <br /><br />I miss those little card catalogs myself. They were fun for someone browsing the library, but I agree that it was probably a nightmare for the employees.Amanda By Nighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01910620012465381103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-38210405725246266542011-01-31T11:26:28.253-05:002011-01-31T11:26:28.253-05:00Of all the the things mentioned the the one that t...Of all the the things mentioned the the one that takes me back the most is the library cards. I remember them well, as well as the cabinets that housed them. As a kid I made my own library cards for the books I owned.Luishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631388281199815121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-14424911677173164712011-01-31T08:12:12.460-05:002011-01-31T08:12:12.460-05:00I am constantly telling my kids about life before ...I am constantly telling my kids about life before the net, emails, cell phones and iPods! (mind you I am a big techy freak☺) I think that technology is great but kids these days have little or no social skills or patience. They live in an instant world filled with fast food, IM, texts and google. No one has to really LOOK or WAIT for things anymore! <br />I worked in the library system for a few years back when it was hand written cards to sign out AND when the electronic sign out was involved ... looking up book with cards and now it is all on a computer. But sadly kids dont 'hang out' at the library or book stores.<br />Somedays i miss the 'old days' (and I am only 38!) but then I look over and see my Kindle and my iPod and smile! My hubby says tho that we (our generation and older ones) have the best of both world as we remember the past days or glory AND we have the advantage of appreciating the new technology! Man is he smart! ☺Dennis & Jodihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06202377203416505663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-53677536433513144082011-01-30T22:28:20.969-05:002011-01-30T22:28:20.969-05:00First, the librarians had to do a minimum of 3 car...First, the librarians had to do a minimum of 3 cards for each book: Title, Author, and Subject. The real pain was trying to find a book if you didn't know the author or the title. You had to guess at the subject as determined by the library or the publisher and then, if you were lucky, you found the card in the card catalog. I miss the furniture - huge and solid - with all those little drawers, but I wouldn't actually want to go back to those days. I keep the library catalog open all the time in my browser so, as I hear of books that sound interesting, I can add them to my "for later" list.<br /><br />Phone books - you had to have them or you couldn't call anyone you weren't close friends with. Now, of course, they're strictly optional.<br /><br />Recipe files, either on index cards in a little box like my mom had, or just shoved into your other cookbooks. No entering the three sad ingredients in your frig in Google or Bing and seeing what kind of recipe they come up with.<br /><br />I fear amazon will kill ever so many retail stores like they're killing bookstores. Once upon a time, you had to go to the bookstore if you wanted to browse books or buy any.<br /><br />Here's a big one: used or out of print book searches. I recall one particular book that I wanted. It was out of print, so I had to go to the neighborhood used book store and ask them to find it for me. They put an ad in a trade newspaper and got one or two results. I got my book but it took about 6 weeks. Now you go to amazon or alibris and search and if they don't have it immediately, you set up a notification and they'll tell you when it pops up.<br /><br />Fabric: I hardly ever go to fabric stores now. I can order on-line and I have access to far, far more including yummy beautiful things like Indian sarees.<br /><br />Obviously, the list is endless.Tonestaplenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-16900346677073936302011-01-30T19:18:26.796-05:002011-01-30T19:18:26.796-05:00Ah, good point, Kathy. Of course. I've been re...Ah, good point, Kathy. Of course. I've been requesting books through my library's website for a long time now and they often get a copy from other libraries, so it's been a while since I looked up a book via its decimal number.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18122952408610512684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15023065.post-57601089111783866362011-01-30T17:26:52.550-05:002011-01-30T17:26:52.550-05:00Dewey decimals still exist because there ARE still...Dewey decimals still exist because there ARE still books and they have to be arranged somehow on the shelves. But the cards are history and no one's happier about that than librarians!Kathy Amenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02353918133298858318noreply@blogger.com