Seeing someone's pokemon card collection used to be something special. You would see and hear about the Charizard card and almost think of it as a myth. Then your friend would claim to have the card, and low and behold, there it is! And if they had Japanese printed cards, no matter how rare, they would always feel like a mysterious treasure.
One of my childhood treasures was a Japanese holographic Zapdos card. It made me feel like I had found pirate's gold!
#LifeWithoutTheInternet It you missed a TV show, you will have to have someone tell you what happened or just never know.
Friends will make claims of secrets in video games and you would try to do it and see if it was real. They almost never were. But looking back, it was a fun way to stretch the life of a game.
I used to listen to the radio a lot more. Somehow I felt more connected knowing that many others were listening to the same thing at the same time. #lifewithouttheinternet Also, music didn’t suck back then.
On one hand, it was crucial in my diagnosis, and being able to talk to others with the same condition has been helpful in helping me cope and assuring me I am not alone.
On the other hand, the internet is so very distracting. #youtube and #reddit have eaten so much of my time. And now #mastodon , #kbin , and #lemmy compete for my attention as well
Saw a #Dell monitor spec'd to "Max Operating Temperature: 104°F" and thought about redesigning phones and all other gear to work in #Phoenix+ heat, rated to 120°F or 45°C. #lifewithouttheinternet
Looking shit up in an ENCYCLOPEDIA (or more realistically, just never answering that nagging question because it was too hard if your parents didn't know)
= life without the voices of so, SO many queer people and/or people of color
I hope everyone is glad that they can listen, learn and expand their world through the net and I hope everyone works hard to find the voices they can learn from.
@Jason844 I would imagine that during COVID-19 if there were no Internet then we would practically attend school sessions inside capsules that protect us from the transmission. So we would attend normal school in 2020 but we would have to be "capsuzlied" plus the food from the lunch would be delivered into our capsules directly without us having to go there and crowd up. So we would all be isolated and we wouldn't move at all and eat food in classrooms.
Without the internet, software installed on computers would work properly, because you couldn't put out a half-assed job and then say that you'll just fix it over the internet later after the customer has already paid for the software.