Life Before the Internet… You had to do WHAT!
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Thanks!
Agree
It was beyond amazing. I really miss those days and wish they would come back.
*You paid for this information? What's the matter with your family or anyone over 40 anywhere?* I could've told you all this without making every sentence sound like a question. Sorry, like UH QUEStion.
What for Yvette Schaerer ?
@@Biofeedback1975 To some degree I feel exactly the same way
The public library was a good way to spend time studying or just for reading.
They were good times and life was good, especially the music. I admit, the internet changed the world, but I'm glad I got to go out to play when I was a kid.
I love the memories of my childhood in the '60s and '70s!!!!
Lol it still is. They just need more places to plug in my phone.
And I still do all these physical things even today.
I dearly miss that Dewey Decimal system card catalog.
My public library was at least 8 miles away, you had to "schedule" a visit with my parents.
In my humble opinion life before the internet was so much better!
I agree in certain instances. Social behavior has been damaged for sure. I fear for the younger generations.
nobody is forcing you to use the internet now
@@mrflhx2009 lol you're stupid
@@mrflhx2009 I believe you just made Bridget's point! 👍
@@d.vaughn8990 Exactly 💯!
Man, I have no idea how many hours I spent randomly skimming through our encyclopedia set reading random articles as a youngster.
I literally donated my set from 1965 last week.
Yes. I am so glad I didn't buy a set when the salesman came around to my front door in the early 90's. What a waste of money that would have been!
Me too
Born in 82, the set we had growing up was from when JFK was still a Senator.
I well remember doing that but now I can't live without Wikipedia and Google.
We didn't appreciate it because we didn't know it would all end: Giving stationery sets as gifts, anticipating getting those photos back or wondering what was going to happen on that show for which we had to wait a week, the album cover art.... We didn't even realize we were learning patience. Now it's all instant gratification and bingeing shows we hardly remember.
....of course we knew it would end, are you daft?!... that's what memories are made of.
@@cheryl9389 I think you misunderstood me, but that’s what TH-cam is made of.
Exactly! Basically, by your comment, I just realized another thing. This technology is killing all of the moral virtues in all of us. One of them is patience!
You hit it on the mark!!
@@cheryl9389
Your insult towards her also shows how people have become selfish and rude as well.
I love how my childhood is basically just a TH-cam history lesson now.
it will be like that for everyone at some point my friend...have a good rest of your life.
I was thinking the same exactly, word by word, LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
In a sense I feel bad those times are now lost but my dad's childhood stories sounded like history lessons to me too. And these are much better than my dad's stories!
When I now talk to children about the past I feel that "granddad is telling from the war" moment I felt, when my grandfather was telling from the war... Well, for me it was only the cold war.
😅
I miss those days. People were so much closer forming lifelong friendships because we got together and spent time making memories with friends and family
You truly nailed that one for sure,but if you look you can still find new good people trough facebook now,but it's not quite the same sometimes.
Thank you for a good comment.I'm norwegian from Sandefjord city,Norway.
💯. On the weekend you get up, go out, maybe make an appearance at lunch and come back at night.
I absolutely agree.
Uh, sorry, but BULLSHIT - I have just as many if not more friends now that are from a FAR more diverse group of people. From various religions, cultures and nationalities as the internet let's me connect to ANYONE ANYWHERE ANYTIME. Some of my best friends now live on other CONTINENTS which wouldn't be possible otherwise.
Sorry that you live such a narrow life but those of us that embrace technology have in NO WAY given up connection - in fact we have FAR MORE STRONGER connections thanks to it.
But sure, it was better back when we were more isolated, less educated, lived only in echo chambers and didn't have instant access to ALL OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE - all from our pockets or PCs. The ignorance in your comment is STAGGERING to me.
@@ross-carlson you should keep in mind that Internet friendships are much less meaningful than real life friendships made through mutual experiences and good memories.
This brings back so many fond memories. I'd go back in a heart beat to spend one more day with my parents and grandparents. I miss them and these old days very much.
Me too, mine were the best people.
Amen.
Oh Curt, So would I. How about a nice Thanksgiving with your family back in the day?
@ThrummerOfLove Absolutely...including Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, etc
I always think that too, one more day with my parents to tell them how wonderful they are.
People had longer ( or normal ) attention spans back then, and conversations were much more engaging. Nowadays people have shorter attention spans and will either interrupt you during conversations or will fidget with their cell phones. So many distractions now thanks to all the technology that we're surrounded by.
Teen-agers used to talk for hours on the phone with some of their friends. Now they (and people a lot older too) communicate in short texts. The motto seems to be if you can't say it (or write it) in a few sentences, it's not worth saying (or writing).
@@betsyj59teenager here, sorry to burst your bubble but we still talk on the phone for hours and text very long thoughtful paragraphs about certain topics to each other. There's nothing wrong with communicating thru short texts sometimes. I am unfamiliar with the mentality that "if you can't write it in a few sentences, it's not worth saying" and I'm not sure where you got this from lol. Addressing the comment you are replying under, I can't recall one time someone interrupted me in conversation or fidgeted with their phone because of a "short attention span". People have the same attention spans it's just that there are new things to multitask with which humans have always done. Like looking at birds while talking, watching TV while talking, playing a game while talking etc. It's not a new phenomenon to be multitasking while having a convo. If they're interrupting you it's more likely they don't really care for what you're talking about. This is another situation where it just sounds like nostalgia is skewing the past
Its so rude but has become acceptable to be out to dinner or just having a convo with someone and they pick up their phone ;/
Yes, my daughters friend was the first smartphone addict I encountered. I was told he had a social disorder, and needed to stay on his phone. As then, it was rude. Now they all have this social disorder. I refuse to use the smartphone for the internet, as I saw what those devices do to people. I did get into TH-cam, which I regret, as it has caused attention span issues among others. Now I see it was all falsehoods and lies, to spread their agendas.
I don't know that I totally agree with that. One thing I hated back then about the gossip was the misinformation such as going out in the cold will make you sick (it won't you can look it up now it's a fact). Then you had nasty rumors that were spread and excommunicated certain people or had real dire nasty consequences in the community. One poor girl I remember in middle school was slut shamed and humiliated multiple times. They put dog bones in her locker calling her a dog and a man stealer and all sorts of things. But getting back on my point, there were so many dumb conversations people had back then arguing who was right and wrong about a point and no one could just look up the answer on google to figure it out. It was just an ego contest of misinformation and arrogance, so the conversations were a lot less quality in my opinion.
1980'S: "The 21st century is going to be so awesome!"
2020's: "Bloody Hell, take me back to the 1980's!!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣As the saying goes be careful for what you ask for.
Take me back to the 60's
@@billkussmaul2940 Fair enough!
basically it is not the 21st century or technology which sucks.
it's PEOPLE - abusing technology and using it for completely useless things - who suck :)
Born in 1961. It was supposed to be the Jetsons and robots doing all the work. Tons of leisure time. Hell I barely have time to answer my e mails. Lol. Freedom 55 ( early retirement ad from the 1970 s) sure I’m working till I’m 90 that’s when my mortgage will be paid. But you know at least I can laugh about. The post war boom of the 50s to 80s is over and it was a rare occurrence in the history of the world. Everyone had a house things were affordable you could easily earn a’ living ‘ wage. For most of history except for those 40-50 years life has been tough. Welcome to reality y’all. Peace from Montreal.
I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Took the words right out of my mouth, brother. The Internet is waaay overhyped. Sure, it was cool at first, but now it's the butthole of society.
@Mr Ray, if you find it somewhere, may I go with you?
@@trueobservers Cool, not many know who Valor is. I'm a bit partial to Mon-El-I've got family that worked on the comics.
You'd go back in time and invest every penny you had in stocks for Microsoft and Apple.
@@canskasapaemanon708 Sounds like an awesome day!! Life was simpler back then, better relationships, less hurried....
So happy I got to experience so much of life before the internet.
Yes, it was much better.
Agree with you.
heard ya bro!
So glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s, no spoilers especially on movies, waiting for that favorite song to come out on the radio to start recording it, talking to friends in person, great memories ❤
true
Yeah. I'm old enough to remember my parents and the media going on about "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery & the who Luke's father was. I didn't care about the JR thing - only the adults did, but I DID care about the mind blowing Star Wars revelation.
@@nicholashylton6857 I was more I to watching Star Trek in those days
I don't mean to brag, but I think those of us of Gen X had the best childhood of any generation in American history. For the most part, it was balanced. We weren't jaded, we were easily amused and if we didn't have anything to do, we created our own fun. We went outside and played games in the street without fear of being kidnapped, I even rode my Big Wheel around the block.
I once waited months for a song to come on the radio so I could record it, then the stupid DJ TALKED OVER THE BEGINNING 😫
Nostalgia is a weird sensation. It's like happiness and sorrow all rolled into one feeling.
Thing is, though, nothing was ever the way it used to be.
Do you know what the word means ? in its original latin interpretation ? well let me educate you NOSTALGIA = OUR PAIN and your more than welcome . X x
@@williamwilkins3084 explain that please? I think I get it, but it needs a bit more detail...
@@tiplady Meaning nothing ever freezes or stands still. Change is continuous. I'm not putting down nostalgia, I get nostalgic, too, and like to have and collect things from the past. But often when we get nostalgia, we tend to look back only on the pleasant things. There are times in my life I'd never want to go back to again. I've just learned to make the best of these times we have.
Sadly, nostalgia is not what it used to be.
My friends and I would spend hours in the Record Store. I miss how respectful and kind we were to each other. I miss good manners. We have become a country where we use profanity too much. We had self-respect, we took pride in how we dressed.
Amen brother. I don't like where we're at now. Too many changes, and not for the good.
Eric Hill: amen to that. I don't like modern technology. It has changed the way we live . and not for the good.
I agree. The problem in these new times is that too much bad behavior is being permitted, worshipped and promoted. Especially through the media and politics. Seems as if people want to be "badasses" because they think it's a joke to be humble which is sad. Everyone's not a WWE wrestler..
"Manners....", what are those?
Rose tinted specs me thinks.
Being 69 years young I wouldn't change things a bit. I enjoyed all the old times and when times were simple.😊
yes
Absolutely, I am 64 and I loved the 70's so happy we had the chance to experience those priceless times.
@@eldorado1830 Yes I totally agree with you I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days growing up.🤔
@@eldorado1830 I am 65 years old and I also loved the 70's.
Boomers destroyed America.
Perhaps my biggest takeaway from this is what it once took to research something. While I remember all the ways we once did things, there was something about going to the library to find the information needed to complete a project. I still remember most of the information I spent hours researching some 45 years ago. It stays in your mind because of the time invested to learn what you needed to know. Today when I do a Google search on something I need to know, I am likely to forget that information a week later. I don't have to invest much time learning something specific, its easy to forget.
True. Also, when one went to the library to find a specific book, one would also see the other books on the topic surrounding the book being looked for. On the internet, your topic searches are much more directed. I learned a lot from my accidental finds in the library.
I was a teen in the seventies. Two things I miss: 1) having lots of still fairly young adults around who had lived through the Great Depression and WW2-without antibiotics- (and grandparents’ generation who remembered very well WW1 and the Spanish flu epidemic); 2) learning that a good letter contained hardly any references to “I, me, my”. Those older generations understood things we would do well to know today. And man, could they dance! I miss them dearly and thought they’d be here forever.
Yes, really. My parents were born in the 1920s, and I grew up heating his tales of being in WW 2. My grandmother recalled WW 1, and so much of other things you mentioned. Gone now. I miss their generation a lot.
Yes, they taught us the meaning of effort. We have teens (and older) on the internet now who can't even bother to google whatever it is they want to know. They demand it be spoon fed. I feel sorry for their children.
You can say that again. Now our once great country is being reduced to resemble a 3rd world South American shithole.
And CCR was new 😄. I am a 70s teen myself. Kids are dumb & daft now.
Just one more reason that history is important!
I would go back to the 70's-80's in a heartbeat if I had the choice.
Me too. I miss stealing washers from Sears so much 💕
ME TOO!!! I've been watching old t.v. shows like Vega$, where old cars, phone booths, etc. can be seen. Miss those days soooooo much! I'd LOVE to go back to those days. The 70's and 80's are my favorite.
But only if we could be forty to fifty years younger again.
"I don't like the park, Smithers, for one thing there are too many fat children."
*Mr. Burns knows what's up.*
@@tias.6675 Was that a reference to something or did you really steal washers from Sears?
Being born in the 1950’s was without any personal computers. It was always wonderful when you telephone a business and you actually got to talk to someone every single time to help you right then and there without having to go through a maze first.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
I have to disagree. We didn’t always talk to a real person. Sometimes we got a “busy signal” and had to hang up and try dialing the number again hoping they had finished their call and hung up so our call would go thru. Lol Hell, I remember party lines when you’d pick up the phone and hear your neighbor talking to someone instead of a dial tone. (I know you know. The explanations are for the young-uns) 😉
Press 1 for English. Now you either go through 20 questions and/or get hung up on. Absolutely NO accountability or ownership from employees. Including the programmers!
@@bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953 Do you remember when they turned hoses and dogs loose on Black people?
Being born in the 50's would have been so amazing, to see the best musicians and concerts in from the 60's to 80's. mid-late 60's and the 70's had the best music in my own opinion
I know this makes me sound old, but I miss the days when things took effort. I think it made people appreciate things a bit more. I also liked how it got people together like game nights, arcades, and movie rentals.
I miss board games so much . They are still out there but trying to find someone to play with you is nearly impossible. 😢
@@RepentfollowJesus I would play.
How blessed I was to have lived growing up in that era!!!
well, I most certainly do not miss the cold war, growing up litterally on it's front line, but hey, whe had a library full of adult cartoons, so we didn't need to spend money on adult magazines :oD
@@SimonRaahauge1973 You do realize the "Cold War" wasn't real - it was just fear mongering to keep the American people afraid and easily controlled and manipulated.
@@robs5252 It was real enough here in Europe......
Being born in 1979 I’m starting to think it was the last generation to have this kind of childhood. I didn’t know how good we had it. Now I wish my kids could experience what we had.
I was born in 83 , definitely the last generation. I had never been online until I was 21.
youre wrong bud. i was born in the 80s, my sister was born in the 90s, internet wasnt relevant or prevalent at that time.
Our family was pretty well off and i didnt see home internet til about 2003.......
I agree in some ways. There is an advantage to having the sum of human knowledge at your fingertips, but I think we have lost some of the personal connections. It's great that you can play a game with someone 1000 miles away but there was something about playing face to face.
I have told my kids that we are the last generation to not have internet or cellphones. Experiencing our society go from not having it to now completely tied to technology has been a sad experience. I do love having history and things like that at my fingertips to learn. But being a person who works in the cyber realm I would go back to type writers if I could hit a button. Overall technology has been a net negative for human interaction and has completely kill creativity.
Wow I was born in 69 and look a lot younger than u
As a child of the 70's and a teenager of the 80's, it certainly felt like a different planet then. It seemed easier to hook up and meet friends because you had to physically make it happen by going to places, being in the same rooms with folks who had similar interests. You made connections with people face to face. While I do appreciate the leaps and massive bounds that technology has provided, I always think it's taken away much of what's listed above. And if any technology of any kind now glitches or crashes for any amount of time, people's lack of patience and ability to simply wait has vanished. Hence the short tempered, quick reactionary behavior we witness in stores, waiting lines and worst of all, traffic. Just the anger on the road let alone everything else is almost incomprehensible. I'm only 50 now but I'm still trying to find the balance of the past and the galloping pace of today. I'm thankful where I'm at now and I'm fortunate to be "plugging along" with what comes my way but I got a little emotional watching this because again, it seemed we lived in a time where humans bonded a little more and it felt more constructed then say destructive.
*Best comment on here. It deserves so many more likes, buy alas there's only me...minted in '75
@@artaxorwelle2206 That's super kind of you, thank you. It's nice to hear I'm not alone.
Yes !!
I was also a 70's child/80's teen. Born in 1966!
@@nancyomalley6286I was born in 66 also, the 70s and 80s were so much fun and much better than any of this century.
One thing I miss most as an 80's teen is sitting on the porch in the eves, waving or chatting with folks who walked or drove past. It was a wonderful time.
I agree. I am much older than you, so I would have the time-frame in the 1950s. However, television kept too many indoors, squinting at the one-eyed-monster. To the point of front-porch elimination on new home construction. Now everyone is squinting at their dumb-phones. No better.
Yes. I remember how my brother, and myself (4 and 6) would go next-door to sit on the neighbors' porch and chit chat. The neighbors were three elderly women - one extremely elderly mother and her two daughters. Children used to interact with a much wider range of age groups. I remember moving to Austin, TX in 2000 and being so smitten with the dancehalls where people went to dance to live bands and sit around visiting - grandparents, parents, children, people out on dates, groups of friends, people out on their own. It was a rollicking good time. Could n't believe that this sort of thing still existed in the US.
Porch sitting is pretty rare these days
@@uslinesDefinitely. It's really bad on public transit now. People used to at least acknowledge each other!
@uslines Hard to wait for passersby on the apartment balcony! You make good points though!
It's important to note that pre-internet life was generally slower, we understood things took time and were not nearly so much as in a rush as we are nowadays. It is also why we treasured finally reaching the arcade and meeting up with our friends, or the excitement of receiving a letter from family, friends our a love letter from a girlfriend/boyfriend in the mail or the joy of entering into a movie theatre and finding seats after waiting in line for an hour, etc.
Yeah I was thinking there really isn't any sense of anticipation with anything anymore
I was 14 back in 92, I truly miss that era.
@@synthoelectro I was 14 also, and miss those times, have a good day you old fuck,🤣🤣🤣🤣
is this ChatGPT generated respond? XD
@@BytesizedL say what?
Some may think this was annoying times but I think it's the best times ever.
The people of today's times (the younger folks in particular) Probably would think those times were annoying. But Not having those things that save time (cell phones, Home computers) to begin with; weren't a thing. You just knew if you wanted or needed to do something you'd have to take necessary steps to do or get it.
@@revandenburg Home computers were a thing, long before the internet, so were cell phones.
Best times ever? Before Bill Gates and Google invented the Internet there was massive censorship because only a small amount of people controlled what information you could see. Now you have complete freedom to know everything so you can make important decisions yourself like how many times you're going to get vaccinated.
@@wanderingfool6312 Cell phones didn't make an appearance to the general public until the early 90's 'the brick phone' Home computers also the vast majority of folks didn't have one in the mid 80's there were probably a subset of people who had either or. Not most
I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s where we played outside until the street lights came on. We rode our bikes everywhere, roller skated, swam every day in our pool, ( I grew up in Woodland Hills, California), and just had a blast being a kid. Now I have four grandsons who were raised with computers, laptops, iPhones and IPads. I wouldn’t change my childhood for anything.
You missed out. Sucks to be your ass.
i know right...... when the only phone you needed were your mom screaming your name all over the neighborhood.........
We lived in Sacramento California.
I can remember 1970 when I was 10 years old.
My mom bought me a
5 speed schwinn stingray orange krate for Christmas.
Everyone thought I had the coolest bicycle in the neighborhood.
After school we'd sometimes play kick the can until it got dark or until dinner time.
We also played kick ball in the street.
Sometimes we'd lose a player or two because they had to run home to watch the Partridge Family.
I grew up in Del Mar, CA in the 60s and 70s too (when it was populated by surfers and professors, not multi-millionaires - although my mom is still living in the family home two blocks from the beach thanks to the 1978 Proposition 13 "tax revolt, my parents bought that 5-bedroom house in 1967 for 38k"). Del Mar didn't have any street lights in the old part of the town so we relied on a neighbor mom "ringing" her triangle to beat the band at dinner time to know we better head home too.
I've heard many people say that we have it so much better now because everything is much more convenient and safer. I'd go back to those times in a heartbeat. If the internet went away tomorrow, I think that our world would be a happier place.
In no way is anything safer. Back then we didn't even need burglar alarms except in banks. I miss talking in person to people. And no, computers just cut out a lot of people from jobs and also made things harder and more frustrating when they stop working correctly or the lights go out. Girls working at registers can't even make change. You have to tell them how much change you are owed. But before long i guess the digital money wil stop that too.
The safety obsession is bizarre. Somehow I made it through life riding a bike from the age of 6 without a helmet, getting measles, mumps, chickenpox and rubella in elementary school (like a lot of the other kids did), walking to school and back from the age of 6, wandered around the neighborhood with my friends as a child - finding good vacant lots to build forts in or just laying down on our backs, staring at the sky, talking, and chewing on sour grass without parents worrying about where we are and if we were safe, cooking main dishes and baking (using the stove and the oven) at 8 years old (pretending I was the Galloping Gourmet), riding in the front seat of the car, etc., etc. Nobody was going on about safety, we were just living life. (Parents also did not freak out when you got cut, scraped as a little kid or got a bad grade in school.)
I think I'd feel some relief, like a weight was off.
@@betsyj59Well said!
Indeed
Living before the internet meant when we got bored we used our imagination. It only took once for me to tell my mom I was bored. She found something for me to do and it was usually extra chores😂
Me too.
I’d have swopped my Lego for the internet though.
The internet is an amazing tool but a terrible addiction
Ask yourself this... how did I get this far to needing to rely on technology? People did it to themselves... allowed technology to takeover their lives
@@pacmantravel2158 A sh*t load of research by some very shrewd people went into ensuring that happened.
@@HeartFeltGesture LOL
A double edged sword is what it is!
Only idiots are addicted to the internet . .... because your to stupid to think for yourself . ....you got to have Google think for you . ....bet your one of those people that have to take your cellphone to the restroom with you so Google can tell you how to wipe your ass and how to flush the toilet .
I remember and miss those days. I’d happily go back.
Yes same here, someone please invent a time machine.
You and me too sister.
I was born in 1963 and l couldn't agree more!🙂
I genuinely feel bad for the kids today. They'll never know the absolute horror of not having enough quarters to finish a game. Good times
Gotta run fast to the quarter change machine before the 10 second countdown to continue the video game! That was awesome.
Instead they panic about the battery level in their tablet, trying to beat a stage. Same feeling.
Wut? Fuck that, I lived through that stupidity. Games being overly difficult to literally make kids broke... you can have that bullshit lol.
Growing up in the late 90’s and early 2,000s, I got to experience everything in the video in my early childhood and then I also got to experience the internet from its birth until now. So my childhood had both and I recall both. I think it is better now, but since I wisely use it, for others and for society it’s helped rot everything away.
@@the_kombinator Tablet? Hardly. Rarely. It's about the phones mostly.
Who here wishes we can go back to that simpler time.✋
Only if I'd be fifty years younger again.
You mean who wishes they could be young again. If we could actually go back in time but remain 60+ years old…we’d realize how good we have it in 2023.
@@jacksons1010 Medicare, home delivery, medical advances, etc.
👍🏻
It only seemed simpler because people didn't have access to the information required to be an informed and enlightened citizen. People were much more ignorant and arrogant before the internet, and even today you can see the arrogance come through from older people who still don't know how to properly research and think their echo chambers are valid sources of information.
I grew up in the 70's - The 70's and 80's were the absolute best decades America has ever had! Everyone was civilized and safety was no big concern. I used to ride my bike 22 miles round trip to K-mart and my parents didn't care! It was a fantastic time in America! I sure miss those days.
Well mainly true but don't forget it was also the decade of the serial killer. I miss those days too.
yea except for the serial killers
50s & 60s!
22 miles whoa
@@joan-lisa-smith oh shit 😂😂😂
I remember it all and frankly want to go back. We are living in a country that I do not recognize! Yes the bell bottoms and giant hair were horrible but we were still human and not like the robots of this new world consumed by sticking faces into screens none stop …we waited for everything! Even popcorn! We ate together and actually talked. Oh yes and I remember so very well going to a place called Liberty Travel at the mall to make airline reservations and I was just fine with that. Movies were the best experience you can have in that time. Thank you for this great channel that is our Time Machine!
Me too!! I miss all the simple good times back then and not mention everybody was alive then.. like grandparents, uncle's, and friends... I always thought back then those times would never go away but they did...
We were advanced enough at that time for the time, easier and more on a personal level than now, I think they were the best of times.
Bell bottoms and giant hair had character. I'll gladly take those back! Just get me out of this depressing Biden era!
@@aandc2005 Amen brother!
@@upperkeeldrum Absolutely! We lived during last best decades of America
As a teen, I loved being out of contact with my parents once I went out with my friends for the evening. There was something very liberating about knowing I was on my own; my mom and dad had having no way to contact me nor, did they have a clue as to wherei I was until I came home early in the a.m. - Freedom!
Complete and TOTAL!!!! 👍
This is where we are. My childhood is now a history documentary on TH-cam.
I have the same feeling. Kinda weird, isn't it?
It seems like just yesterday. And now it's an Historica Curiosity. Our much-vaunted Youth, Extracted. But oh what a time.
OMG I was just thinking the same thing! During the video, when the narrator mentions " in those days people had to", I thought to myself my goodness it sounds like I'm watching a historical program featuring how I grew-up! I felt a pang in my stomach for a second or two. Sigh😪
Yeah, it makes you feel ancient like a dinosaur, out of place, like you dont belong to this time...this "history" WAS MY LIFE!!!
Like me watching a documentary about my how my Grandma grew up during the 20's.
Coming of age in some bygone era that is just a footnote of history.
I've become a documentary.
As a 55 year old, I am LOVING this channel that I just recently found. I'd love to have a time machine and go back to the late 70s and live it all over again. But, since that isn't going to happen, I at least can watch channels like this that sort of take me back to a much better time. Thank you for all the great vids...and please keep them coming. :)
Ditto, often think of the years gone by! 1969
Born 1968 and I agree!
so agree on everything you stated
1967 chiming in. Tech is a blessing and a curse.
Born in the 1962
Those were better days, and it's sad that we'll never see them again. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
This video almost brought me to tears. I'm 57, and I miss those days so much. Sure, the internet has made life easier in a lot of ways, but I long for the simpler days. No smart phones, no texting, no lockdowns at school, people weren't getting offended at every little thing. We could have never known how good it was till now.
I experience this when I watch old TV shows and old movies (which is all I watch now with regard to television shows or movies). Often feel tears pricking the backs of my eyes.
Yes❤😢
I agree 100% 👍👍
I’m 57 also, and more than anything I miss the days when we were allowed to just be kids, the 70s being the last time that was actually possible, before children were made into a target market. Now they’re a target commodity. I miss the safety that allowed us to play outside in peace until 9pm after it got dark in the summer, or when at 6 years old I could walk to the park by myself. And I’m talking the north side of Chicago, too!
Absolutely right!
I was born in the 70’s and raised in the 80’s. I miss all of this. Family game nights, Friday nights at the video rental store, Saturdays at the mall, and writing letters to your pen pals!
Wow!
Great memories, indeed 😊
@@cabellero1120 Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks.
Ah yes the family Game night...We did have so much fun back then!
Same here I was born in the 80’s raised in the 80’s & 90’s I do miss these times
Amen sister
Back in those days we didn't have this, and we didn't have that.
Yet less was more, and life was better.
Exactly, we seemed to have managed! I think that back then most people knew how to deal with being bored. It seems to me that many people spend most of their lives on their smart phone.
Does anyone remember the drive-in cinema? They were all the rage until the mid eighties. As a kid and teen we used to go frequently with my family and friends. I'm in my fifties and really miss the 70's and 80's. Life was so much simpler, we had more human interaction. I remembered everyday there were always kids running around outside, today you walk outside and the neighborhood streets are eerily quiet. It's funny how we used to always say that technology would make our lives easier. To be honesty the opposite is true now. Our lives have become so much more complicated and run by technology.
Had one in NC about 20 years ago.
@@MultiSweener I'm from NC too. My parents used to go to the drive-in in Winston-Salem when I was a little kid. They'd bring my pillow and jammies so I could sleep in the back seat if I got tired.
Yep we had one in Peel County, Ontario back in the 70's. It was such a fun experience watching all those budget films with your friends in the car--lol!!
I remember them as going to the drive-in's.
We still have two, I think, in San Diego.
What sticks out to me is the sense of community, pride in creating something with your own two hands, and the closeness of family and friends. Neighborhood barbecue's. Children outside playing and riding bikes, without being hovered over. Packing people in the trunk of the biggest car in the group and going to the drive-in. Exploring the woods and forests around where you lived. And no pressure to pack every minute of everyday so you could actually spend time just being in the moment. So glad I grew up when I did.
Thoroughly agree.
One of my best friends died in an accident at age 16. Before that happened, I’d moved away to another state for a few years. She and I exchanged letters during those years. I still have them, and cherish them. To this day, I’m so glad I grew up during this era, because of those letters.
Well, it is possible to print out e-mails and save those, but it's just not the same as receiving handwritten letters. Faster, true -- but knowing that someone took the time and care to craft an interesting and personable letter in his or her own handwriting instead of just typing out a few terse words or lines on a screen makes receiving them much more special. It takes more time, more thought, more heart put into it -- and more practice to maintain one's penmanship.
People were also more courteous about answering correspondence in those days. Trying to get a reply to an e-mail can be like pulling teeth. Nobody seems to have the time, anymore, or wants to MAKE the time. It's much easier to just ignore an e-mail than a personal letter. Less guilt involved. Less caring.
Yeah, it took more effort to do some things prior to the internet, but I'm not sure that was such a bad thing. I think it helped make us better people.
Sorry for your loss. The “me” generations don’t have the same values on life.
Remember, no one has ever cherished an email
when email first started I put a lot more thought and content into it, just like regular slow mail. That trend is appeared didn't last long........I remember on Prodigy people would have pen pals they'd email just like they did with regular mail.
All of this technology has DESTROYED society.
He’s talking about this like it was a bummer, but it was a blast. Hanging out with friends and doing stuff together.
Yes I noticed that also (the tenor of the presentation).
not all of it, I don't miss waiting in long movie lines, or for film to develop the next DAY.
That's because he's an AI voice...
2080 - (cue pensive music) in 2023 before the invention of butt wiping robots people had to wipe their own butts😢 (cue sadness, shock, disbelief)
What are you talking about? 3:45.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, whenever we could we were outside with our friends. The last place you wanted to be was indoors. There was also the dreaded back to school shopping. When your mom took you to get school clothes you knew summer was over. There were always that last week when we tried to do all the things that we told ourselves we were going to do at the start of summer break.
Built a treehouse. Played whiffle ball in the street. Built scrap go carts to run down a steep street. Played in the local cemetery without destroying or defacing a thing. Ran from the police for harmless things. They pretended to chase. laughs. No guns, ever.
I dreaded school every summer because I had bad school refusal,it was hell along with anxiety and depression so school did not go my way.I still struggle over that today.
Interesting thoughts! Thanks for sharing them. I grew up in the 50s & 60s, and also spent most of my time outside with friends. Back to school shopping was great for me though - it was about the only time I got new clothes, and once I got into 7th grade or so my mom was pretty ok with me choosing. I was always prepared to go back to school and didn't have things I didn't do. Maybe because I didn't do much anyway but read and play with my friends!
yes. There was no worse feeling than that back to school moment and no better feeling than the last day of school before summer break.
And rarely did we ever get all of them done. Ah, there was always next summer... a million years away to us and which came too soon to our parents.
If EVERY bit of this video hit you “home”….
Then you’re Golden… ❤
Life was fun. And it was a lot less negative. Less boring. Less depressing. There was genuine human connections and shared experiences. Music and movies were better because you’d wait so long for the experience that you cherished every second. For as easy as technology made everything it sure sucked the soul out of it too.
You are so right it’s honestly sad!
I aagree and that is why the 1980s was one of the best decades to live.
Exactly; sucking the soul out of it is the key phrase there, because that's what this tech is turning us into cold, emotionless drones.
@@timtebowfan628 Amen to that; to me it was the best time to be alive. It had something for everyone no matter what you were into!
It depended who you were. People were a lot more segmented by their identity. Unless there was a war, people stayed in their own (very specific) groups.
Minorities had no voice and were drowned out by elitists or the majority, and anyone outside of the majority was beat up. Nonconformity was crushed. "Safety in numbers" was the general rule.
It definitely wasn't anything like the greener pastures like what you see on popular 80's nostalgia shows today.
The feeling of melancholy is upsetting my stomach, watching this... And yes, the internet makes a lot great things possible, I'd give both my pinkies to return to the days it was never even heard of...
Totally agree.
I miss how much simpler life used to be. I remember when my parents set up game night. My older brother and I got to pick out the game. Either was trivia pursuit or monopoly. I grew up using the encyclopedias of previous generations. Still remember the smell of the binding. Those are treasured memories my children won't have with the abvent of technology 😢.
My mom was a contestant on the original Jeopardy and we received the Compton's 1967 encyclopedia set. I loved reading them.
I was 34, when the internet started. I agree life was better back then. People were more social and life was less negative and people took joy in simple things. I am glad I grew up without the internet.
I look at all people in the still shots of the video! Including myself! We had no clue of what complicated times were ahead of us! Back to 1985!!!!!🤘
ronnie parker, is your photo shown in this video?
@@newmankidman5763 no I was just referring to myself! Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Wait for me!!
@@chrisoakley5830 you got it brother🤘
@@ronnieparker4311 Thanks man, I knew I could count on you. Cool Ace Frehley picture 🤟
Life before the internet, was a real life!
Back in those days you actually had to do things instead of watching others do things. 👍
Like hanging out behind the dugout, waiting for someone to leave so you would be asked to play softball…
At first he way he explains how we did things sound so tragic, difficult and sad. Yes, we actually got off our butts and went to the grocery, video or hardware store. We interacted directly with people in person. We walked with our heads looking ahead or even around us, not down at a screen watching other people live their lives. We got together and talked in person either one on one or in a group and laughed and had fun that lead to great memories. I'm so glad I was born when I was. To me it seemed like a lot more fun.
It was more fun! More relaxed too.
Well said!
Exactly. What was described as difficult and time consuming was actually often fun (going to AAA to pick up the motel/hotel/campground books, the maps, and the TripTik that the AAA travel advisor made up!), taught skills, built new brain pathways, was social and unpredictable, and everything you mentioned. We had required typing class in high school (mid 70s) for both boys and girls. To this day I type super fast. It's really something to see my "digital age" students so inept at typing (the two-finger method) even though they are tapping away on their phones and laptops constantly, and almost use handwriting. Remember Marshall McLuhan's famous 1964 book "Understanding Media: the Extension of Man" ("the medium is the message"!)? His theory that technologies "auto-ampute" parts of the human, both brain and body, was spot on. We're at the point now that there is almost nothing left to be auto-amputated. Maybe that's why "transhumanism" is the next big thing.
Before the internet there was also large catalogs that came out every three months from stores like Sears and Macy’s. You could order over the phone or use the enclosed order form. Rural places received these a lot as they were not close to stores. The Sears Christmas Wishbook was my favorite. All the new clothes, toys, were there, tools for dad, appliances, perfume for mom, jewelry, furniture, and everything else you might need. After the season was over you could use the catalog pages and books to make other things.
I remember as a young kid memorizing the toy section of the JC Penny's holiday catalogue.
J. C. Whitney
Teenager…Sears Christmas Wish Book…never made it to the toys section!😉😉😂
And an old catalog provided the paper necessities for the outhouse!
Do you remember Sears catalog stores in small towns where you could order catalog items delivered?
I consider myself BLESSED to have grown up in the time before the internet. Of course, some things took much longer and could be more of a pain, like research, book keeping, etc. However, all in all, in today's world, where it seems like everyone wants a more organic life, life WAS more organic in the pre-internet era. We played outside, read books, played bored games, did arts and crafts, went hiking in the hills, and we only had a handful of T.V. channels to choose from. Yes, time before the internet was just fine.
TV would go off the air after theTonight show.
I think this video has only attracted those of us who can actually remember these times. Really appreciate the look back ❤️❤️❤️
I actually miss the anticipation of a new album dropping, cracking the plastic, and reading the credits while listening for the first time.
Life before the internet was much better in many ways.
Omg yes yes yes we need to make it trend to get back to reality!! How do we get there find our way back , surely we left foot prints or marked the trail !!
We need to stop our materialism stop e-commerce!! Stop buying corporate!! Have nuclear family's, family trips across states , stopping for picnics family game nite, video stores even !!
Line drying our laundry!
Halt welfare and government programs so our money has more value,
Home ownership
Did you know the clothes and good comi g from China is full of lead , you ever wonder why cancer is so bad now in America??
Remember when ppl pushed for buying American only !!
We must must must fight to get back to the American dream we are all so void of the true meaning of life its not the materialism we truly crave the materialismism creates temporary happiness because we aren't icing right
yes it was
Most ways, actually.
Social media has ruined society
Yes and no. Back then, ignorance was bliss. There wasn't a choice. Now, we need to learn how to disconnect. This Gen-X does wax nostalgic, too. There's a price to pay for convenience.
I was a teenager during the 1980’s, so I appreciated this trip down memory lane.
me too :)
I am so freaking lucky I can barely believe it. I was born in 1958 and got to grow up without all the societal pressures kids have on them these days. I could venture away from my house and have experiences that todays kids can barely conceive of. Now, at 65 and medically homebound, I can bring the world to me What a fortunate generation to be part of.
Born in 59. There were many things that were better and more enriching.
I agree with you 100%
Same boat here ,born in "59 and I would go back to the 1970's right now if I could!
Agreed! I was born in 1950 and remember growing up with no internet, e-mail, texting and such. I Remember playing outside in the early years all day long. Just seemed to be better times.
@@da_mask I mean...Kids still do that bud. I did that and I was born in 1991. I know kids born in 2003 who did the same shit growing up.
The internet was created in 1969 to link together the computers at various universities in order to save money by not duplicating research resources. What changed in the 1990s was the introduction of the worldwide web which was a graphical interface that operated on the internet allowing ordinary people to connect their home computers to each other.
It is not the technology that's the problem. It is finding out that your part of the world is full of morons that is the problem.
And the world went in the toilet very quickly after the world wide web 😢
I miss the 80's. Best decade ever
Sooooooo agree!! Loved the 80s. Best decade of the 20th Century in my opinion as well!!
It's so weird, I grew up in the 80s. My mother, who is considerably older, also refers to the 80s as the "good old days." She was born in the 40s. I thought she would have picked a different era.
I guess you weren't here for the sixties and seventies.
I was born in 1966 and you show some of the best times of my life and I realize now that those were the best times of my life in the 70s and 80s and even the very early nineties, but mostly the 80s LOL. I've often teared up and cried because I want to go back so bad and I know you can't and I know that seems silly but I want that feeling again so bad to get away from this world the way it is now
I was born in 67, the 80s were nice in retrospect. But today is a good day. I love seeing my sons become successful kind men.
I was also born in '66, I know how you feel...
Totally agree and feel the same way. I hate this suckfest of a new era.
Living today is nothing but a big pain in the butt,nothing fun happen's anymore,life is dull.We all need a time machine any day fast!
Born in early 60's and I agree so much with you! Wish I could go back to those years! Being young again and living a much simpler life.
I feel sorry for the young of today who will never know how much less stressful those days were. It is so sad nowadays to see most people, earbuds, smartphones addicted, oblivious of their surroundings and the passage of real life until it is too late.
Most of the youngsters have accumulated wealth from the previous generations
Totally agree with you👍
@@the6strings I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathrooms
We were the bored generation but that made us creative. This is why us Gen-X rule the world now. 😀
@@alice_agogo Gen-X, are the most dumbed down, snowflake, govt. bootlicker, pro corrupt govt. generation out there today, grow a brain
The only way to survive during miserable times is to remember the days when you had a good life.
I grew up in these times. I still believe board games are really awesome to build family and friendships, how to be happy for others when they win, and just having face to face fun 😊
Some of the most hysterical and memorable times of my life stem from game nights with friends and/or family.
I love old board games......Clue, Park and Shop, Nancy Drew game, Hardy Boys game.
Except for Monopoly. People get weird while playing that game. I actually got slugged in the chest by my brother-in-law during one game. That was the last time I sat by him while playing.
Spoons (card game) was almost a contact sport, but so much fun. I’ve got lots of good memories playing that with different friends.
@@oneminuteofmyday OMG YES.......every time I played Monopoly there was a massive argument or close to a slug-out. Something about that game brings out aggression.......probably because nobody ever follows the "official rules", Every ones family always had there own made up customized rules.
@@inkey2People fight over money, even when it's fake.
Back in the days when you had to have a little common sense and motivation to get through life. Nothing was easy and we were all the better for it.
I bet kids don't know how to built a fire with a magnifying glass in this day and age.
@@MitchMitch77-77 I'd rather spit on him.
Lol...i lost my gsp signal and almost had a melt down til I remembered that I drove until I was 32 with out it. I actually had a map in the car and so proud I found my way
Remember when you could slap your wife and not get arrested?
I couldn’t say it better. Your comment David is spot on if even for only a day
Strangely, before mobile phones, internet and social media, we always knew how to meet up with our friends, even find illegal raves in a field and pictures of you with a bad haircut was just something your mum kept in an actual album to embarrass you in front of your first girlfriend/boyfriend..
Most of our friends didn't have cellphones and we'd walk and walk all over town and 99% of the time we'd still find each other. That was just 20 years ago.
there absolutely used a certain telepathy to navigate the world back then
Wonderful time to be around. You were actually engaged with life. If you're over 60, you know...
Ha ha! We did keep up with our friends. I remember we would go over someone's house or apartment and throw rocks at someone's window to get their attention if we didn't want to ring the doorbell because their parents would get mad! Usually we just planned a place and a time to meet. Sometimes you wouldn't meet people. Then it was this agonizing decision. Do we keep waiting for them and be late to wherever we were going, or do we leave, and try to tell someone who was there who could pass on a message where we went?
The way you narrated the first part of this made it sound like these things were a hassle. I'm SO glad I grew up through the 70's and 80's.
Good old days...people were more present & "in the moment" then...
If there's one thing that is a lost art: it's letter writing, writing a letter to a loved one!
Most don't bother with greeting cards, I miss them (and post cards from far away loved ones) was something to look forward to when going to the mailbox.
I never understood people's nostalgia for letter writing. You can argue when home phones become ubiquitous, but by the 1960s, more homes had a phone than indoor plumbing. If you wanted to communicate with someone, it was far quicker and easier just to call them.
Was in grad school at Heidelberg. Everyone used fountain pens, Germans still do.
@@finkelmanaBut sometimes it was a subject best done in writing rather than getting into a screaming match on the phone with someone slamming down the phone.
Indeed. There is nothing like sitting down, devoting an hour and composing your thoughts for a person you cared about
The world seemed to be much smaller and much more overseeable back then. I used to live in my part of town, had most of my friends there and places to meet. I played in some bands and having a gig more then 30 kilometers away felt like a big adventure to me.
That all has changed so much. In the year 2000 I started to work in another city and became a commuter. And when I came back after long hours I starred at the computer screen, arguing with people I never met in real life.
Pretty often I really miss the analog world, where you had to order music with a postcard and were totally happy when the parcel arrived three weeks later, having no online tracking to senseless look at the whole time. 😛
It was better because there were a few Billion less people on the planet and we didn't have so much competition for resources.
Grew up in the 60s, no vcrs , 3 tv stations until UHF came along then you added 1 or 2 more,,,,,we survived!
@@francesfarmer736We sure did survive.
@@francesfarmer736Not only survived, we were much better off, the 21st century has been nothing but one disaster after another.
The world was in fact bigger as it was less connected but the population was smaller.
I would love to go back to the 60s and live the rest of my life from then. Things are getting too dystopian now.
One thing you missed was mail-order shopping: Mail order companies would send product catalogs to people who then could place orders via letter or phone. This was a common way to get things you couldn't find in local shops.
Sears and JC Penney but the stamp books were a favorite too via catalog, my parents collected Blue Chip stamps from the supermarket and we all got free stuff.
I was born in 1961 and lived in a small town with very limited shopping. Oh, how I loved those catalogs. We would fold down the corner of the page when we saw something we wanted. That's how we made our Christmas lists.
I remember, as a child, the Peddler, in his converted school bus, who came by once a week, I think on Wednesday. His bus was like a store on wheels. My Mother would buy things she needed from him, because it would be Saturday before she would go to the store. We lived out in the sticks.
Getting either the Sears Christmas Wishbook or JC Penney Christmas Catalog in the mail was a holiday within itself ❤
@@mykelbaurle5758 I forgot about that! We had one of those too; mom called him 'the Jewel man'. He'd bring in boxes and totes of all sorts of things for mom to look through.
I was 4 or 5 then...dang that was awhile a go...woowee...lol😂
This video really made me feel old yet happy that I grew up before the internet.
This was some real life. Society existed. Euphoria and romance was real. Way less anxiety and depression. Thank you for a good video.
Romance was definitely real, we used to call to talk to a girl and definitely had to entertain one of her parents before speaking to her at times. Lol
@@everettetoxey8554 😄 yes.
That's because it's the timeless conundrum .... the more you try to improve something in one place , the more you screw something else up in another place ....
The loss of euphoria and romance is truly sad. Unfortunately, kids growing up after their disappearance can't miss what they don't now. Even sadder.
Born in 1980. Our street was full of kids. I grew up building forts, catching gupies or crawdads in the canal, riding bikes, and playing home run derby, and all kinds of other sports, trading baseball cards. My sisters used to talk on the phone to friends, and we had this phone on the wall with a really long cord that would go under their door. :) When I was old enough to drive, I got the old family station wagon to drive to school. It wasn't all easy, but we did have some good times, and I think we felt blessed for what we had.
Usually the "easier" things get, the more passive people become. Expending energy and problem solving (building forts, riding bikes on unknown routes, figuring out how to get the phone receiver outside or under the door, etc.) make people feel happier. Depression levels are off the charts in this country now when everything is the easiest is ever been (except for paying rent or mortgage and affording groceries!)
Having been a kid and young adult in the 70's and 80's I can happily say I wouldn't trade my pre-internet days for anything, even with some of technological drawbacks at the time. I think anyone who grew up in that period knows exactly what I mean.
Spoken like a true boomer.
@@DestinyAwaits19 shut it you slag.
I am so happy I was born in the late 1970s and got to be a kid in 1980s. That was just enough time for me to enjoy the world as it was before the internet.
Me too!
Yup. Born in '83.
Same... except 1985
Researching was a hell of job without a laptop and wifi until Y2K.
I was born in 1981 and I’m regularly so glad I grew up when I did. I’m not anti technology either… I’m I sucker for it to be honest; but there was a way of life that has been lost and will never return.
One thing that the internet destroyed is having
a close community.
Or anything that could be seriously called community at all!
Life was much better before the internet.😊👍
Gone are those days… the good times where life was so simple and less complicated.
Life was as complicated and bewildering then as now. We simply didn't always have comparisons available to show us.
@@greggi47 you're right. Too often people look at the past/ their younger days through rose colored glasses. There were many struggles then ...and there are now. I was born in 1965 so obviously lived much of my life before the internet. My kids and granddaughter go with me camping , gardening, etc. Life is what we make it. People can sit all the time staring at their cell phone...or can get up and live life! It's a choice. :-)
I remember looking in the newspaper for movie times and theaters. And there wasn't a constant news loop on tv like today. Also the camera that popped out the pictures instantly, you would have to wave it around to help it develop. Miss those times so much especially now.🤔
Anticipation is keeping us waiting. We appreciated things more back than. Now everything is instant gratification.
@@freedomrings1420 Yes I agree with you everything is at our fingertips in today's world.
Looking up the movie times in the local paper was one thing, then trying to organize a group of friends to meet at the theater was another without texting/cellphones!
This was so much fun to watch. It’s amazing how much we’ve changed.
I'm a 60's baby girl and today's technology may be useful for some things. But it pales in comparison to the days. When life was simple, safe, fun and people actually talked to each other. And not having their faces stuck to a cell phone or a stupid computer. 4:35 OMG! I have that recipe box too! 😊 It came with flowers in it at the time. I bought it for my Sweet Mamma and I have it. 🥰 I miss those good ole days and would definitely go back there if I could! Especially for the drive in movies, miniature golf, arcades, and theme parks. Where it didn't cost an arm and a leg to go on rides or having to buy a stupid membership to have fun, buying our favorite summertime treat from an ice cream truck. And who can ever forget watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. Those were the best of times and I'm so grateful to have experienced it all. ❤❤❤❤
I definitely remember seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan...... in our den watching on a black and white tv in a teal and white cabinet!!!!
@@kat35lulu88
Yes those were such memorable times back then. Our family watched The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan show. In our living room. With 7 kids plus me in a 4 bedroom house. Their was no den and our TV's always came in a brown cabinet. I thought that was the only color they had. 😅😅😅
Yup, good times. Everybody knew everybody. Game night, Saturday morning cartoons, cooking breakfast, reading books, walking everywhere ... it was a different time and place that no longer exists. So glad I got to experience it.
"People actually had to be in the same room and interact face to face when playing a board game"....the fact that social interactions like that are now the rarity is kinda creepy and scary...
The defining achievement of the Internet Age has been the gradual transformation of our homes into history's most well-appointed prison cells.
Now, if you have a job that you could work remotely, you don't even have to leave your house because now the Internet could do most of the things for you.
Ehh, house arrest never was so commfy.
You are GIVEN A CHOICE. You can NOW stay in OR go out and enjoy the world with all of the convenience of a smartphone and debit cards (or virtual cards on your phone) in your pocket. Prior to the turn of the 21st century, human society functioned much the same as it had in the 1950's, just MUCH MORE expensively.
Homes are just shelters from the elements, the real prison is this 3rd rock revolving around that shiny thing up in the sky... or your own body, whichever you find it harder to escape from...
???
When I was a kid an encyclopedia salesman sold those World Book encyclopedias to us. I remember when they arrived with their gold pages. They were just beautiful. What a good memory
My dad bought an encyclopedia set for us kids in the 60s. Yep, they were beautiful with gold gilded pages. We loved them we just liked to read them
It's crazy how the narrator is explaining a completely lost and strange world to a new generation that only stares at screens. This was my world and it doesn't seem that long ago.
The narrator's tone is negative.
I could not imagine going through my day depressed because my last Instagram post only got 83 likes.
@Rose Pearl he always sounds like this 🤣
It was only 20 years ago.
@@rosepearl7092 it's a robot voice , not a real human
Mail order catalogs should have been included, especially the huge one from Sears.
(Edit: yes, so many other catalogs. Long term family ties made me think of Sears first)
YOU COULD ORDER FROM THE SEARS STORE & PENNEYS FROM A RING DOWN PHONE LINE(NO DIAL OR BUTTONS ON THE PHONE) IN THE CATALOG AREA
My family got the Montgomery Ward catalog. We had a Sears store in town, but generally shopped at Woolworths or one of the other five and dimes. Loved going through the Christmas catalog looking at all the cool toys.
@ColonialBuckeye Spiegel catalog and Rice-a-Roni: Two things that make me think of 70s game shows.
I can't express in words how much these videos make me feel happy, I can watch these for hours, anything that reminds me of the 80's and before that is what made living fun, the current generation will never know and its as simple as that, we survived and had a blast without everything the internet created
Actually, these videos make me quite sad. I tell myself not to get swept up in nostalgia, that it wasn't as great as I remember it and I am forgetting the bad things, but I have to be honest...a lot of life was indeed better back then. This especially applies to human relationships. Online dating/chatting/hobby groups...etc just are not as rewarding. On top of that we now don't even know if we are talking to a human at all. AI is getting so advanced.
Yeah... but NOT THIS one!!
@@flechette3782 It blew me away what AI is capable of doing, I watched a video where AI will soon replace radio personalities, the AI will be able to answer calls, have conversations, update data on the fly, piece together audio from any disc jockey and create realistic dialogue for any type of situation all in real time, it will be capable to pull information from the entire web in seconds and respond to callers with precise information, it was scary imo, I also miss the relationships humans once had...
@@Matucks Makes you wonder what humans will do. 100% unemployment.
90s were better
I am from that era, but life without social media would have been amazing. Internet helped a lot, but Social Media ruined It all.
It's incredible and truly horrifying what social media has done to society.
All when autos were works of art, popular music was a joy and a responsible person with a regular job a could comfortably afford a home and auto.
If it were up to me, it would remain 1976 forever!
70's and 80's for me....
Sounds fun..if only some of us born after that year could also enjoy it lol.
Yes the bicentennial year, what a great Forth of July that was.
I was married that year. But I wouldn’t want it to be forever…. Enjoying my 8 kids and 14 grandkids too much 😊
In 1976, we pretty much had all we needed. Everything that came later were conveniences.
Every decade has it's own goods and bads, Im very proud of being Gen X, living all of this and than diving into digital... LONG LIVE THE 80s
I feel our Generation has a better grasp on Tech knowing it before the 1 and 0 took over.
We've experienced life without all this tech, so we can compare it. Young folks now don't believe that some things were better, because they haven't experienced it
I was in HS in the 80s Best decade ever!
I agree. I think it’s cool to live thru all these changes. When I entered the work force fax machines just got started!
@@R-L-D My house was right next to the town highschool... I was in elementry school listening to y'all get out of school BLASTING your music in 'old' cars😍EVERY.SINGLE.SCHOOL.DAY from 1985- 1991. You Guys were sooooooo Cool..With your big hair, collars popped and you 1 thick short gold chain😎💙!!!! Even little and not knowing much... I was DEFINATELY like "Wow.... Look at the HUGE hair... HOW... to get it that big? The Bigger, the more mystical and powerful the high-schooler was." The bigger the hair... the more intimidating... if you could get your hair that big... there was no TELLING what one was capable of😳....🤣🤣🤣🤣 #Memories from 5-11 yrs old of #Life in the 80s🤣 🙌🏾😎🙌🏾