I was too busy "being a kid having fun with my friends". Outside all day, riding my bike, skateboarding, reading comic books and sneaking into movie theaters.
It was more relaxed. I absolutely hate my cell phone, though I love it's features and convenience. I despise being "on a leash" where anybody can reach out and bother me over the most trivial of matters. Yet I appreciate being able to look up info on the internet. It sure beats going to the library, looking up references in a card file, then sifting through piles of periodicals to see if they have what you really want to know.
MEMORY LANE: As a grade schooler in the late 60's, I saved up my allowance and bought myself a 4-transistor radio. It was roughly the size of a pack of 3x5 note cards. I had no idea what a transistor was, but it was the latest and greatest technology and by golly - my radio had 4 of them! My friends and I would climb the ash tree in the backyard and talk and listen to music till the batteries died. Aaaahhhhhh.....
We had pay phones everywhere lol. To be honest, I got out and interacted with people in person ''much''more before the internet. I had people over to my house much more. We would think up ways to have fun. We had books on everything.. encyclopedia's etc I always listened to alot of music, it was going all the time. ..New CD'S... well...cassettes or whatever they had at the time, was a big thing for me. I loved going to the music store buying new songs when they came out. We didn't get to preview the music first, but we soo... appreciated that album/cassette when we got it in our hands. We would all get together and invite friends/family over to hear the new albums. It was fun. We would go over each song and decide which ones were good or not so good. I believe we appreciated things much more before the internet. When things are harder to come by.. you ''really'' appreciate them when you finally get them.
well no malware and you could not delete propaganda or set up moderators online for news papers which were propaganda. and there were other types of telephones. dial telephones and faxes which printed out messages. then books no problem with page cannot be displayed. there was anti-spyware the gov did not distribute because preffered the. f.b.i. do bug phones for national security purposes .you know so communities could not use the funds on bug sweepers ciggarrete package sized things which you teurn on to do so .1960's films involving the C.I.A. generally made mention of these .
universities had to get rid of propaganda by informing the public maybe hosting a bon fire though not really appoved of . i mean the civil rights movement probably burned all the racist articles on black people publicly.
Well, we had encyclopedias for research and the library. Board and card games, tv for entertainment. There were pay phones in lots of places or you could ask a business to use their phone. Or you could just call when you got to work or home. We left notes about where we'd be and when we'd be back. But while we were out and about, there would be no contact until we got back home.
Calmer...but then I was in the business world before FedEx, fax machines and computers. Even photocopy machines were in their early stages with wet liquid toner and slimy "thermal" paper! Everything was more personal and slower.
Well, when I walked down the grocery isle, I never heard anyone talking to themselves. Now, I don't know if they have wireless or are schizo. Before the net, I had to go to Canada to buy cigars, now I just have the Cubans mail ém.
pretty nice. try it sometime
