I was born in the 1970s. Pretty awesome actually. You couldn't verify a damn thing...

I was born in the 1970s. Pretty awesome actually. You couldn't verify a damn thing. You could lie and tell stories as though they were the truth and people would believe you and they never found out otherwise.

There was nothing at all to distract you from the things you wanted to do. You focused and got shit done. If you wanted to talk to someone distant you had to be tethered to the wall with the phone cord. Paper-based mail was exciting when you sent and received letters. You had to actually get up and drive, walk, bike to your friend's house to talk to them. You had to wait up to 1 month to get photos developed and you had to choose your shots carefully. You had to ask local people for directions when traveling.

Everyone talked to everyone else when you went out somewhere. Sometimes you'd sit down to a meal and have a group conversation with several other people in the restaurant and everyone else would be listening in.

Secrets were kept. Porn was in magazines and on VHS/Beta you had to hide from your parents or randomly find in the woods. When you were out in nature you had to focus on nature and not your phone or battery life. Walkie-Talkie hide and seek was a thing. There were only 3 TV channels, if you turned the antenna correctly. Movies were neighborhood events.

Hidden ponds didn't have trash around them because you were the only person who knew about them. Trails didn't have graffiti and twitter tags, if there were trails. The fish were bigger then. The water cleaner. There wasn't any jet trails in the sky. Rainbows were not for fags. You used gas lanterns and flashlights with massive square batteries around camp.

Where ever you were, you looked out from that spot to everything around you. You didn't look at a screen to determine where your place was in the world. Your place was where ever you happened to be.

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Sounds pretty gay if you ask me

*PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT begins playing*

Thanks OP, sounds like a breath of fresh air. We can't focus on these things though or we'll just be unhappy

>tfw you will never experience the world before the internet ruined it

You can get off the computer and ignore memefags and it will be kind of simlar

Not as old as OP, but old enough to be basically the last generation to remember life before the internet.

The only thing that is missing from the world now is the fact that people can't be assed to talk to each other face to face. You say something to a stranger nowadays and they act like you're going to murder them. Didn't used to be like that. Other than that, the trade off is completely worth it. Life was super fucking boring.

32 here.

One thing I have noticed in the last few years is the world just doesn't -feel- like it used to. Enough things have changed since I was a kid that the overall effect on a person when they go outside is different. The cars use different types of engines, the gasoline is a different formula, the fast food restaurants cook with a different kind of oil, the climate is slightly different. The roads are covered by a different type of asphalt. The rubber in tires is a different composition.

I suppose my senses have also changed over time, but the effect is quite disconcerting.

It would take a long time for it to be similar to the pre-internet days. Your brain is literally adapted to internet usage and when you leave it for even a few minutes your stress level will begin to rise. You won't be able to keep your attention on things for long periods of time like people pre-internet. Maybe after a few months this effect would diminish. I wouldn't know. I haven't gone longer than 48 hours without internet since 2003.

>Porn was in magazines and on VHS/Beta you had to hide from your parents or randomly find in the woods. When you were out in nature you had to focus on nature and not your phone or battery life.
Dude I was born in 1991 and we did this.
> There were only 3 TV channels, if you turned the antenna correctly
Yeah well we had 5 if you didn't have cable or satellite, and it was 90% garbage because it was right before UPN failed and American Idol was still new enough to get a fucking movie. Nobody had ever heard of Kim Kardashian and everyone was focused on Paris Hilton.
The good old days, when we'd go out to steal street signs and build dirt ramps for our Wal-Mart BMX bikes but still get together for Halo LAN parties on weekends and maybe gather around some hentai somebody managed to get ahold of from a friend of a friend.

>Porn was in magazines and on VHS/Beta you had to hide from your parents or randomly find in the woods.

Once in a while, when I got for a walk in the woods, I'll catch a whiff of decaying leaves or something and sense that there might be a Penthouse nearby...

>hentai

fuckin yanks

>Porn was in magazines and on VHS/Beta you had to hide from your parents or randomly find in the woods.
>randomly find in the woods

Kek. Oh, the things I found walking home from school in the ghetto.

Made me the man I am today ;^)

> You didn't look at a screen to determine where your place was in the world. Your place was where ever you happened to be.
Why does it hurt so much?

32 too same

Dude, it was 2004 and we were fumbling through puberty, DBZ was still going on Toonami and hormones were raging. I used to jerk off watching Buffy, there was this really great magazine spread with those two sluts from the OC on GQ or Maxim or some rag like that I kept under my mattress. Bare flesh was at a premium, animated or not. I used to watch Braveheart, Gangs of New York, and The Emerald Forest just to have something to beat off to. Old School was great for that, and I pulled my dick raw thanks to Shannon Elizabeth in American Pie.
So sometimes if some goddamn hentai came around, you know I was on that shit. I used to masturbate when I woke up, when I got home from school, and before I went to bed. I had a big yellow spot on my sheet, it was sickening.

born in 73'
there were con-trails
i miss those old square batteries and lightning bugs in the city and picking pears off neighbors trees

>born in 73'
I was born that same year. First two movies I remember watching at the theater were Young Frankenstein and Star Wars. I only remembered they guy with weird eyes in Frankenstein, and the mouse droid from Star Wars.

What the fuck are you guys doing here?

i've been here for 11 years
mostly Sup Forums lets me know about shit i wouldn't otherwise and makes me laugh like nothing else
my first memory is seeing Star Wars, Vader boarding the Tantive IV

Grew up in the 90's. Was a lot like you describe. No one had internet beside a handful of people and things were more real when dealing with other people. No narcissists snapping a million pics for social media.

Much better time imo.

31 and I know exactly what you're saying. I thought it wad me just depersonalizing or some shit.

It also seems like some things are much more frail, fake, and shittier. Idk how to explain it. I definitely get what you're saying, glad I came into the thread and read that.

As opposed to spending your teens and 20's here?
Ironic

>What the fuck are you guys doing here?
Same as this user>makes me laugh like nothing else
Except, not as much anymore. It's become more mean spirited that past few years.

This. Roads used to be better- smoother, less potholes. It's like a third world country where I live. Using that Chinese made asphalt nowadays.

sounds gay as fuck and awful

>le wrong generation
kill yourself you fucking 1998-born faggot

Don't forget the streetlights and headlights on vehicles. They're largely switching over to led.

DAE LE WRONG GENERATION??? LIKE THIS IF U LISTEN TO REAL MUSIC UNLIKE KIDS TODAY

This. Kids (25 and younger) on this board talk a lot of shit but have no real perspective or life experience to draw that shit talking from.

Does anyone remember laughter?

>Hidden ponds didn't have trash around them because you were the only person who knew about them. Trails didn't have graffiti and twitter tags, if there were trails. The fish were bigger then. The water cleaner. There wasn't any jet trails in the sky. Rainbows were not for fags. You used gas lanterns and flashlights with massive square batteries around camp.

I never realized tract house suburbs in the 80's were a literal utopia

That comfy yellowish hue. Pop up headlights too dangerous for pedestrians. Cars nowadays are ugly and anonymous looking as fuck.

>music with autotune. hearing some teen blasting that garbage through their weak cell phone speaker. tfw ghettoblasters were the real deal.

no we only made jiffypop with those metal/foil baskets that burned you

I hate this faux nostalgia bullshit. Who wants to have a group conversation with a bunch of random assholes in a restaurant? Who finds that appealing? Everything now is better than it's ever been. Who the fuck wants 3 channels on TV? What does "your place was where ever you happened to mean"? What is this reductionist bullshit?

Adapt or die a long, slow and painful spiritual death

Hey, I'm just here for the memes and to bait the kids on occasion.

there are things that were great about that time period, no parental guidance or warnings etc
but there are lots of things that are great from now as well. it doesn't have to be one or the other.

>Year of Our Lord 1000+1000+10+5+2
>Watching actual television channels

what are you taking about? Normies already embraced the internet in every way possible

>faux nostalgia bullshit
>not understand that simplicity is a better way of living than all the complex bullshit of today

Q: ARE YOU RETARDED

>Everything now is better than it's ever been

A: YES

>simplicity is a better way of living than all the complex bullshit of today
Sounds like something a brainlet would say.

You sound like a boomer faggot still reminiscing about The Rolling Stones and 8 tracks, lmao.

I truly think the internet made humanity worse

not a boomer dumbass, just someone that knows how to analyze the world for what it is today. I don't make excuses for it going backwards with the advancement of technology, instead of forwards.

>claims to "analyze" the world for what it is objectively
>BAWWWWWW MY FEELINGS IM DEPRESSED THINGS AREN'T LIKE WHAT THEY USED TO BE DA SOCIAL MEDIA DID THIS
lol ok hyperemotional faggot

>hyperemotional from telling it like it is................................

wew

>using your feelings as an argument is "telling it like it is"
get ur estrogen levels checked brother

>talking to strangers in public
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I'm 34. When we were kids, most things were made in America. Nowadays, most things were made in China.

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k thanks brah

k thanks brah

i was in a horrific wreck when i was 19 (31 now). after that near death experience i didn't feel right. i felt like everyone and the rest of the world moved on without me. i tried to play catch up, went to different university programs and dropped out of them all, tried my hand at a few things, got a criminal record, copped an opiate habit, thought i met the girl of my dreams.

nothing really worked out because i feel like theres this cement block in front of me and everyone and everything else. i long to destroy all of this and just live like us humans should.

the last little while ive been obsessed with getting rich, buying nice cars, getting a nice body... its all meaningless. im not interested in pursuing a relationship, my thoughts are anxious and panic prone...

ive thought about joining the army or going to some conflict zones. i used to want to be a war photographer. i think that is what i might have to do. everything seems meaningless. i dont have a hope of doing and acting like the other folks. the only times i feel at comfort with myself and the world is when im using heroin. its sad. and a painful existence.

32 myself, I assume everyone here is memeing, everything you can say of 2017 was true of our childhoods too, we just saw it differently because of a few different trivial specifics, youth, and shittier technology.

When did you start using?

This post reeks of addiction

like 4 years ago but it only got really bad a couple years back. ive gotten clean so many times that withdrawals are so normal to me. im 3 days without dope right now, actually.

part of how i feel tonight is because of the lack of opiates. i get clean for a month at a time but my life seems so... nothing.

I went to Madrid a few years ago alone. I had Verizon cell phone service, so my phone was incompatible with any European phone service. I stayed in an apartment with a shitty router where you had to be right next to it to get any signal. I spent three weeks with almost no connection to the internet or screens. I just walked around the city every day for three weeks and saw whatever I happened to see. Some of it was a relief. I could tell that my brain worked differently without screens to distract me, but it was also horribly lonely, and not just because I went alone.

I kept getting lost in a foreign city, and I could never tell if the restaurant by me was worth visiting. I went running one afternoon and got so lost that I accidentally ran a half marathon.

I just got back from Madrid again, but this time with an unlocked phone. I could actually get where I wanted to go this time. I was connected. If I was trying to meet with somebody, I could actually find them or let them know if I was going to be late. I definitely did more things this time because I wasn't mindlessly ambling. While there may have been an aesthetic novelty to spending so much time without a screen, I don't think it's some sort of cure-all to your productivity or focus. Yeah it's more difficult to be mindful nowadays, but it's still doable.

you should have just went to the restaraunt.. or gotten a lonely planet guidebook. when i travelled southeast asia we just used cheap photo copied guidebooks to locate hostels and places to eat. sometimes we just went to what we could see. it all worked out great and was a good experience.

are those square batteries really gone? jesus

I was born in 1980 and can remember the uncanny, creepy quality old PBS educational kids shows had on fuzzy UHF TV. This one was some creepy shit as a kid in the 80s: youtube.com/watch?v=ss8bGNgEnLE Replete with sinister floating heads in alternate dimensions, who set up "puzzles" that would make Jigsaw proud, as part of a fucking conspiracy.

>shitty generation that have fucked things up for others
>created the internet
>made us realize that 99% of shit in life is essentially fucking pointless
>let corporations brainwash kids with commercials
>said kids are now consuming massive amounts of low quality shit
>now here bitching about how life was so good before we fucked it up kek
How about you gtfo out and let us enjoy our slow descent into madness you assholes, but I guess as the generation that ruins shit for others it's habitual.

31 here. I feel it. Shit's freaky.

Nostalgia is extremely reddit. gtfo

>>created the internet
You're a few generations off there.

It was more that I'd find a restaurant I really liked and wanted to visit again, but I could never remember where it was or how to get there.

OP, when were you born? I'm a 78 baby and I know exactly what you mean. Also, back then there were less niggers and shitskins!!!FACT!!!

I really miss movies like the Lethal Weapon franchise. Fun Buddy/cop action flicks that didn't aspire to anything more than that. I would pay to see more such shit in theaters instead of endless big budget capshit sequels.

'91 here. Shannon Elizabeth meant something to me also. She just disappeared

>grow up in modern times
>internet
>technology
>be able to connect with 3.2 billion human beings for free
>live in the second golden age of cinema
>enjoy luxuries like being able to talk and connect with friends even if your parents won't let you go out
>be able to access worlds fit for exploration despite not being born in the right century
>be able to instantly watch any film, listen to any song, and read any book you wish
>have access to an infinite amount of knowledge, to the point where you can self-educate yourself on virtually any topic
>be able to create entire symphonies with elite tier tools for free
>if you wish to make a work of art, whether its a video or a physical work or a song or a novel, you can publish it to an audience of millions who are willing to view it
>be able to realize dreams of being a film director, an artist, or a musician without succumbing to society and becoming an accountant

i dont think the world is deteriorating, I think the attitudes older people have towards life and their expectations for it have remained the same despite the world shifting dramatically the past 30 years. I'm sure all these modern kids will be thinking the same thing 20 years from now

33 here.. feel exactly the same
growing up without the internet.. most advanced thing we had in the house was an NES with a handful of games.. went out and met random neighbourhood kids on our bikes and generally got into trouble without doing any real harm
some of the kids in my area these days are fucking edgy little cunts..
9-10 year olds tagging shit, keying cars, breaking windows, stealing shit etc.

this was shit that only the 'big kids' did (i'm talking 14-15 year olds).

>some of the kids in my area these days are fucking edgy little cunts..
protip: there was some stodgy old cunt in your neighbourhood who thought the same thing of you

Congratulations, you romanticised an arbitrary decade, what's the next step in your master plan?

It's because we've been in the darkest timeline since 2000!!!FACT!!!

The funny thing is, I can immerse myself in 80's media better than someone who was there: every music video ever made on YT, crazy shit like hours of taped TV from back then with commercials and all on YT, every album from back then, every arcade/console game in emulation.

80's movies in full HD projected at theater quality any time you want for cheap...the list goes on. Loads of fun to live in this virtual past.

>"The world is changed. I taste it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air"

Was Tolkien, dare i say...OUR guy ?

Hey, at least we know we're not living in the Matrix, as Agent Smith maintained that the late 90s was used for the simulacrum as it was the height of civilization. We're well beyond that point, so...

We can never leave!!!FACT!!! youtu.be/vJ9aT-Wa_tE

Our beloved 1980's vintage USENET discussions are still working, but the volume is a bit low these days.

I agree, there is already nostalgia for the early 2000s. I remember being shocked when 90s nostalgia took off, but now I can see literally every generation does it.

...

>can't do common core correctly

In other words, everything was needlessly complicated.

Know what you mean. At 10 I was playing all American football during the summer and romping around the woods trying to find porno mags.

I know exactly what you mean by "big kids" too. I egged a house at 13 and felt like a certified criminal for months.

PRETTY MUCH

Remember when humor was about coming up with very funny, personal associations, and not regurgitating simpsons quotes?

>You'll never get a righteous score on Missile Command, and scarf Perry's pizza at the Sherman Oaks Galleria (and get to third base with the girls that work there)

Why live?

>not living in the Matrix,
good goy

It's quite simple. Globalists and comglomerates have rigged it so that they've made everything purposefully cheaper and shittier so that you use your goy bucks to buy the same fucking thing again, making them richer. Thats ties in with the "eco-friendly" economy. A lot of decreases in quality have been veiled as eco-friendly. It's just a fucking excuse for them to make cheaper shit.

STUFF USED TO LAST A FUCKING GENERATION OR MORE IF CARED FOR.

Still better than the shit I saw in the Early 2000's. For example: youtube.com/watch?v=-LQl3yO3kbs

Early 2000s kids of Sup Forums: what do you miss from the early 2000s?

That 's a common misconception I see people make
>the internet is more cancerous than ever now
>technology has been used to keep people lazy,
>relying on the approval of others let alone a network of people who aren't even really your friends or close to you in any way on a massive scale doesn't help you as a human being it weakens you since your always be self reliant on it ( if your not good for you that doesn't mean the majority of society isn't)
> talking and connecting with friends online and through text as oppose to talking and connecting with them in person has shown clear signs of an antisocial society many people can't even go a full 5 mins in a convo without looking at their phones, real intimate connections your making.......
>we've always had acces to worlds even tho we werent born in the right centuries except they were in the forms of vhs, dvds later, and tv not youtube or google not necessarily bad, just not something that wasn't happening already
>be able to instantly watch any film, listen to any song, and read any book you wish, good for the most part until you get to the dark parts of the web
>have access to an infinite amount of knowledge, to the point where you can self-educate yourself on virtually any topic yes and no since learning anything requires discipline and consistency, most of the unfocused minds of today don't have that in them to busy snapchatting
>entire symphonies....elite tier tools....nigga are you talking about apps because if you are, that shit doesn't make you on par with mozart or bach
> there's art and then there's shit people think is art, this only makes it harder to have good original creative productivity and flushes the genre or market with trash, but your right it can lead to bigger and better things as well

>nigga it takes skill and hardwork and just a general understanding of your craft to every extent to become what your asking having a job as an accountant who gets paid well and understands how to not get screwed over by the government isn't a bad thing or having a solid trade skill isn't only great financially but physically as well. To each his/her own though, just have to know not everyone is meant to be something just cause they like it, most of society doesn't reaize that.

The world is deteriorating it's just doing it at a speed your unwilling to follow, but that's fine the new age shit is all here to keep you distracted. Just don't be one of those people who goes how did we get here, because people we're telling your ass your gonna get to that point and you were to busy engulfed in the thrills of now to notice it.

>Rainbows were not for fags

congrats you completely blew what was a nice little monologue

i get that. me and my buddy found an amazing duck noodle place in chinatown in bkk and he went back later and was never able to find it again

>Sherman Oaks Galleria

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Valley Girl(aerial, exterior shots), Night of the Comet, Commando, Back to the Future Part II, Albert Brooks' Mother, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge, Walk Like a Man (1987), Innerspace and Chopping Mall were filmed at the Galleria"

!!!FACT!!!

no he didn't stop being a faggot

All of that is subjective, how can that be a misconception? Misconceptions relate to fact, not personal opinions. Just because you feel things are getting worse doesn't mean that's what everyone is experiencing.

>many people can't even go a full 5 mins in a convo without looking at their phones
>i'm so dull the person i'm talking to is forced to try extracting some small amount of substance from their phone instead

It was the 80s mall archetype, immortalized in celluloid, and a holy place for valley girls youtube.com/watch?v=sHf089jl9H4

The internet has more abundant information and more of it quality than ever before, kind of ruins the point to your rant.

I was born in the '80s and I firmly believe we hit the sweet spot between technology and living in the late 90's. Cell phones should just be able to make and receive calls. If you want to use the Internet you should have to sit down at a desk and use a real PC. There's cameras on every device you buy and every street corner now. I miss Blockbuster so much...

I was relating it more on the premise that like this user many people believe these same things to be facts as oppose to opinions, but you are right in some cases it's pretty subjective
lol that's cute
the internet while having a wide range of info isn't clearly used for that purpose on most occasions, and for the most part at times will have people ask other people for the info instead of just looking it up themselves. Then again it does all depend on the individual however most are adapting a more hive mindset now.