Hi, I'm about to be 46 within the month. The big difference you would notice, had you been born a decade earlier, would be knowing what life was like before we had internet. That's the big difference I notice between myself and those about 10 years younger. There are pros and cons for sure. For me, I honestly miss a lot of those days - like life before social media, when people weren't such open assholes. I miss the simplicity of life before all this took a foothold.
Those 'hippies' were deep state plants.
Many fine hippies live on today. Ones that realize their home is cool; as is their neighborhoods, and communities. Hippies can be quite giving and full of LOVE.
TV was huge in the destruction of America..
Churches wew HUGE in destroying the media. Seems like the Deep State snuck in with their money and motivators in the 50s, began to tell the churches what to do..
The PILL was huge in the destruction of America.
Credit cards were huge in the destruction of America.
Coca-Cola was huge in the destruction of America.
The list could go on, and on.
Consider more time boding with Mother Nature and her glorious critters.
Consider giving to others, including you community.
Quit bitching/whining/crying, and GET BUSY
The BEST is on the horizon.
Seize the moment(s)
I'm in my 50s and loved my growing up years with parents and grandparents just minutes away in a dinky little unincorporated town. I think about those every day. Some days it's too much and I have to stop. Miss my family on the other side but one day I'll be with them.
I understand totally. Though it would have been great to grow up in a small town, I grew up in a suburb on a dead end street; so without the traffic of a normal road, it felt small. I have but one relative left from the old country, and when she's gone I will be seriously sad. I'm 1st generation American and all my customs, my heritage all came from my (legal) immigrant family. I loved the stories they would tell, and some weren't so great because they lived through WWII in Europe, but the first hand account is good to know. I miss them terribly as well but you're right - we'll all be together again :) Gotta keep the good memories and let them fill your heart. It's rough sometimes, I know. But I'm sure yours are smiling down on you the same way mine are :)
You sent an email in 1981??? Are you military? Wow I was 6 watching the first video on MTV in that year...I had no idea it was even around yet. The first exposure to the internet I got was in the late 90s when Lotus Notes was still DOS-based and I reported new car sales to Pontiac from the dealership where I worked as a secretary.
No I was an ordinary IT dude then and still am. I was employed at a large IT company and we had an email system which only worked internally, although to many countries. That email system was not TCP/IP either, it was the so-called "OSI" and later x.400 model which we hyped into orbit but was eventually crushed. Thanks Americans and your DARPA :)
Probably about 1992 when I got access to what we today call real smtp email and it worked on an automatic dialup system called uucp. It was all skunkworks as well; if we had left it to the bosses we would still be licking stamps on envelopes.
Anyway who would have ever imagined what the internet would eventually turn into; bloody QR codes so I can be allowed into the pub.
Yeah, people were much more neighborly before the internet (or maybe social media also changed things, to me the early internet felt different than the later internet but I'm in my late 30s). I think world culture is actually changing, not just American culture, but this is because there is effectively visa less travel on the internet.
I think every form of mass communication humans get both dumber and more informed. It was probably like that in 1890 when the Gramophone was invented. Maybe the transistor radio, TV, telegraph also changed things, or say the printing press. Maybe it felt like that in the 31st century BC when Cuneiform (and thus recorded history) was invented, but for most of human history, only the elite were literate.
No internet, no smart phones, no compromising photos (other than a negative and a print), no touch screens on anything, parents sent you out the door on a weekend and told you to be home when the streetlights came on. Life was very different back then.
Exactly! I can remember my mom opening the front door and yelling for me when it was time for dinner. As a kid, I was always either riding my bike, climbing a tree or rollerskating but I was outside. Now I am always telling my son to shut down the computer and go outside to play.
Hi, I'm about to be 46 within the month. The big difference you would notice, had you been born a decade earlier, would be knowing what life was like before we had internet. That's the big difference I notice between myself and those about 10 years younger. There are pros and cons for sure. For me, I honestly miss a lot of those days - like life before social media, when people weren't such open assholes. I miss the simplicity of life before all this took a foothold.
And now those hippies are running the world.
Wow, what a memory. Hippies ruin everything.
Those 'hippies' were deep state plants. Many fine hippies live on today. Ones that realize their home is cool; as is their neighborhoods, and communities. Hippies can be quite giving and full of LOVE. TV was huge in the destruction of America.. Churches wew HUGE in destroying the media. Seems like the Deep State snuck in with their money and motivators in the 50s, began to tell the churches what to do.. The PILL was huge in the destruction of America. Credit cards were huge in the destruction of America.
Coca-Cola was huge in the destruction of America. The list could go on, and on.
Consider more time boding with Mother Nature and her glorious critters. Consider giving to others, including you community. Quit bitching/whining/crying, and GET BUSY The BEST is on the horizon. Seize the moment(s)
I'm in my 50s and loved my growing up years with parents and grandparents just minutes away in a dinky little unincorporated town. I think about those every day. Some days it's too much and I have to stop. Miss my family on the other side but one day I'll be with them.
I understand totally. Though it would have been great to grow up in a small town, I grew up in a suburb on a dead end street; so without the traffic of a normal road, it felt small. I have but one relative left from the old country, and when she's gone I will be seriously sad. I'm 1st generation American and all my customs, my heritage all came from my (legal) immigrant family. I loved the stories they would tell, and some weren't so great because they lived through WWII in Europe, but the first hand account is good to know. I miss them terribly as well but you're right - we'll all be together again :) Gotta keep the good memories and let them fill your heart. It's rough sometimes, I know. But I'm sure yours are smiling down on you the same way mine are :)
You only just managed to make it into "before the internet" !
Internet been going a lot longer than people recognise. I sent my first email in 1981.
OK I know what you mean, before it was routinely part of everyone's life.
You sent an email in 1981??? Are you military? Wow I was 6 watching the first video on MTV in that year...I had no idea it was even around yet. The first exposure to the internet I got was in the late 90s when Lotus Notes was still DOS-based and I reported new car sales to Pontiac from the dealership where I worked as a secretary.
No I was an ordinary IT dude then and still am. I was employed at a large IT company and we had an email system which only worked internally, although to many countries. That email system was not TCP/IP either, it was the so-called "OSI" and later x.400 model which we hyped into orbit but was eventually crushed. Thanks Americans and your DARPA :)
Probably about 1992 when I got access to what we today call real smtp email and it worked on an automatic dialup system called uucp. It was all skunkworks as well; if we had left it to the bosses we would still be licking stamps on envelopes.
Anyway who would have ever imagined what the internet would eventually turn into; bloody QR codes so I can be allowed into the pub.
Well you certainly have a very deep knowledge of email and its history. Very interesting stuff I had no idea about, so thank you!
Yeah, people were much more neighborly before the internet (or maybe social media also changed things, to me the early internet felt different than the later internet but I'm in my late 30s). I think world culture is actually changing, not just American culture, but this is because there is effectively visa less travel on the internet.
I think every form of mass communication humans get both dumber and more informed. It was probably like that in 1890 when the Gramophone was invented. Maybe the transistor radio, TV, telegraph also changed things, or say the printing press. Maybe it felt like that in the 31st century BC when Cuneiform (and thus recorded history) was invented, but for most of human history, only the elite were literate.
That being said everything goes through cycle.
No internet, no smart phones, no compromising photos (other than a negative and a print), no touch screens on anything, parents sent you out the door on a weekend and told you to be home when the streetlights came on. Life was very different back then.
Exactly! I can remember my mom opening the front door and yelling for me when it was time for dinner. As a kid, I was always either riding my bike, climbing a tree or rollerskating but I was outside. Now I am always telling my son to shut down the computer and go outside to play.