NOSTALGIC Life Before the Internet

[@MemoryMountain]

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[@KRm627]

I not American but I am an old man and I often look around me and think to myself: we live in the communication age but we no longer know how to communicate with each other..

[@JaydonJohnson-ig3qt]

Facts

[@reneastle8447]

Nothing beats the human touch.

[@haroldfridkis3536]

Agreed 👍

[@reneastle8447]

@@haroldfridkis3536 The human touch can create the most ingenious things in different ways.

[@dorismikolajczyk3802]

True!!! Simpler times with different challenges!

[@shawngilliland243]

Life before the EVILnet was better than much of life is today. I miss so many things from those times, including record players, newspapers, and magazines.

[@awashhyzo]

Then get off the internet and stay off, if it so rotten, go read books

[@annastasia4403]

Record players newspapers and magazines still exist today and there’s no law that says you have to use the evilnet

[@Mike-Olds-1]

I’ll take before the internet times over where this country is now.

[@yvonneplant9434]

I still go to libraries. Anyhow the internet was great before facebook ruined it and, of course, all of the other BS like twitter. The net population of users consisted of mostly nerds, academics and scientists before about 1995.

[@yvonneplant9434]

We're all part of the problem with the internet. It's global.

[@JohnWilliams-qf1xw]

Those were the good old days. I give anything to go back to those days 😪

[@yvonneplant9434]

@@JohnWilliams-qf1xw I don't feel that way but I do understand people who do.

[@Mike-Olds-1]

@@JohnWilliams-qf1xw me too Sir

[@user-Danswife]

GenX here. Born in 1968. I loved when I grew up. We lived in a lot of different worlds. I lived in life similar to the 50's when I was very young, lived thru the 70's disco age, 80's preppy and punk age. Then we lived through the computer age. Wouldn't have changed it for anything.(well maybe I would change being in this modern age. Take me back to simpler days!)

[@steelyman08]

I'm 58. It's like having lived 2 completely different lives. Have to say the first half was far superior even if the 2nd one seems easier & more convenient. The pay off isn't worth what's been lost.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Kids played outside in the sun and people in general were better at socializing with each other back then. People were not rude or wanted to hurt anyone. I miss those days and would go back if I could.

[@reneastle8447]

The Retro Decade Revival Project can help with that.

[@michaeljohn9263]

I live in a subdivision that only has 1 way in and 1 way out and at times it feels like a gated community, but it's not. Everyone owns their own homes and everyone really takes pride in their cars, yards, especially lawns and planters. I have 2 widows that are in their late 70s early 80s (I've never asked their age because you NEVER ask a woman her age as it's beyond rude) and bring them supper 2-4 times a week. Kids are ALWAYS playing hockey or soccer in the middle of the road, biking, walking with friends and skipping has made a huge comeback in the last few years (double dutch) and they even have their parents old ghettoblaster on the curb playing old rap, techno and 80s tapes. In the winter everyone helps everyone and if the plow goes by and you are clearing your driveway before your neighbor is outside you always do the end of their driveway to help out (they do the same for you if they get out there before you do). I know I'm very lucky to have such a wonderful neighborhood filled with amazing people that love doing block parties and BBQ's at our park (about 8 doors down from me) in the summer, and in the winter we make hockey teams out of the street you live on. At the end of July I'll now be here for 7 years (we bought the house in 2016) and I really wish I moved here sooner because I've never found an area in my town like this. Just last week a house down the block went on the market...the next day it had a SOLD sign on the front lawn, so I guess the secret is out on our little piece of heaven. One other thing is we don't have any stores over here so there is NO thoroughfare; the people that come here either live here or they are visiting friends or family and that's it. I suppose I live in one of the last special places North America has to offer and will stay here for the next 30-40 years! I love it here!

[@deanbrunner261]

Fast food was a treat not a lifestyle

[@reneastle8447]

@@deanbrunner261 If Fast Food remains a treat, not a lifestyle, that would be sweet.

[@JAZZ4643indy]

The Time Machine is leaving shortly.

[@hearttoheart4me]

No better statement than what you said at the end. "The value of human connection"

[@steelyman08]

"In person". It's hard to even remember how that felt. Coffee shops were my heaven. Met so many cool people just hanging out & reading in them. People looked for each other in such places. Now they're just silent & filled with people on devices. Everything had more value for so many different reasons. Even most families have been negatively impacted by it. The list goes on and on. “It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” ~ not Mark Twain 😉

[@luisreyes1963]

How I miss the Drive-in Theater. Watching movies on streaming video just doesn't seem the same as going to the movies. 🎞️

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

This was very peaceful to watch and CERTAINLY brought back some grand memories! Thanks for posting it for all to see during these horrible times we're in presently!

[@darkempire2022]

The good old days. 😢

[@tomsisson660]

It was a better time; simpler no, but not necessarily more complex. Life before the internet and cell phones was not about social media and artificial intelligence; it was about other people. If you wanted to listen to music you needed compact discs or cassette tapes, a CD player or cassette player, and headphones. If you wanted to know something the answer was not Wikipedia or KZbin, the answer was physical libraries, librarians, books, magazines, and newspapers. If you wanted to talk to someone you needed a landline phone or more often go to see other people and to meet them somewhere such as a coffee shop. It was an era of other people. Tom Sisson

[@boxhunter9742]

Yikes in my opinion the past can stay in the past I am glad i was born in my generation

[@davids5336]

I'd like to thank you for this channel! A lot of Generation Z'ers, millennials and Alpha's will learn a lot from this content and appreciate all the nostalgia and magic from the past! Who knows, maybe one of them will invent a true time machine and then some of us can experience the past 1st hand! Who knows what's possible! ??? Goodbye!

[@yvonneplant9434]

Love your comment.

[@thomasallen3818]

My grandkids haven’t had to read any books since they have been in school. My granddaughter just started college and was shocked when she got the syllabus for just one of her classes. She called home stating she didn’t know she was going to have to read books, let alone buy books. This was one of the reasons my wife retired from teaching public school, because the system started moving away from textbooks over ten years ago, which is how long she’s been retired. I miss the America I grew up in.

[@scottbrown7415]

Since the development of the internet, genuinely terrible people have been able to advance themselves in society. Instead of being marginalized and shunned.

[@thelogicaldanger]

Generation X, in spite of the negatives of being part of Generation X, Generation X is most blessed to have been able to experience the best of both worlds (pre and post internet.)

[@thelogicaldanger]

@@siegfriedsassoon5071 Yup....Gen X is the sandwich generation, stuck taking care of our irresponsible parents who didn't bother to save for their retirement, and taking care of our children, who can't get a decent job or by a house because of boomers ruining the economy.

[@user-Danswife]

​@@siegfriedsassoon5071that would be boomers and millennials.

[@deniseherud]

i wouldn't call it a blessing. we had a better life then. Now is grey, empty and unbearably awful. only having lived thru better times, can we see how absolutely Orwellian today is

[@thelogicaldanger]

@@deniseherud I am sorry your life is like that. Mine is most definitely not, I pray you can find peace and joy in your life.

[@davidfrank3728]

I seriously hate this world today! Its so painful to watch these kind of videos. To remember the times gone by, and lived to see this world warped into today's vile, and disguising, degenerate BS! country roads take me home!

[@brianthesnail3815]

Young people now don't send and receive love letters. I remember exchanging them in the 1980s with my then girlfriend (now my wife of more than 30 years). Love letters were special because you could say things you might not say in person and you could think about what you were going to say for a long time before writing it down. Not like now with social media.

[@larry1824]

We had a party line

[@farlowalexify]

I remember the drive through

[@rufust.firefly4890]

I don't miss all the smoking.I remember how crazy the girls got over The Beatles.Outside all day in the summer.

[@alexanderfarrell8957]

What I miss is actual record s, not digital. One of my best memories from the 8os is going to Sam the Record Man every saturday, and buying new 33,s and 45,s

[@Traderjoe]

I don’t think we have gone “forward” since the internet. I think we have become utter barbarians.

[@cindytrayer4279]

I absolutely agree and often say the same thing. Very sad how civilization has devolved.

[@yvonneplant9434]

History would teach you otherwise...but okay.

[@yvonneplant9434]

​@@cindytrayer4279 Civilization goes in waves. Growth and decline are part of it. I guess because people don't change very much we are stuck in this pattern.

[@herbertdiaz4318]

Much more isolated than before As you can be in a room with 20 people and most of them are on phones not interacting with each other

[@joshuabrande2417]

These days, and say hello to a passing stranger and you thought of as being a creep or a predator. The internet has changed social cultural norms in a relatively fast time, and imo not for the better. We’re living our lives in communal isolation and anonymity.

[@JaydonJohnson-ig3qt]

It's sad now you say hi to someone and they ignore you

[@tonyn3227]

I love the good old simpler times.

[@stevejohnson1321]

I don't miss those days, although the telephone almost always worked -- even when the power was out. Too bad companies running the system often did a poor job. Maintenance was an afterthought by the 1990s. I would call from another phone and get "your service will be restored within 21 days." Bad as cellular can be, we may now change phone companies.

[@edwardpeirce7324]

Back then it didn't matter what you're politics were. We still had respect for different views. The internet has made us so hateful and divided.

[@DR-nx4fu]

I hate to say it but this is only the beginning of the influence of the Internet.

[@steelyman08]

Yes. It's going to get truly surreal.

[@skyedog24]

Take a look at it video I believe it's called going to the mall 1983 and you'll see a vastly different human from who we are now you'll see kids that are in touch with their social skills on a level that everybody had then and now only a few seem to possess.

[@user-Danswife]

Yes, I saw that. I'm a GenX born in '68. That video really brought me back because that was my world. So much better than now! A million times better.

[@soulsistersam7]

"You were lucky...we used to live in shoebox in middle of road!" MP

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Great trip down memory lane and Please do NASCAR History

[@bestcity0979]

yea i would not survive this era but its so nice to see

[@baylorsailor]

Luckily I'm old enough to remember before the internet 🥹

[@CatholicTraditional]

Another piece of history learned: the 1937 Chicago Polio outbreak. I really wonder how they actually did school over the radio?

[@SJHFoto]

I wonder about that too. I knew nothing about this

[@user-Danswife]

There were local stations that would have the local teachers in to broadcast to the kids.

[@susansackrison3139]

Some things are definitely better.

[@Patricia-vm9ys]

I wasn’t allowed to call my friends in high school. Toll calls

[@user-Danswife]

I remember having a party line. It was where you shared a phone number with a stranger. Each house had a different ring tone. If you heard yours, you knew to pick up. If it wasnt yours you knew to stay off the phone because you could literally ease drop on the other family. Plus our phone number wasnt like today. It contained letters and numbers. Mine was uptn45854. It stood for where you lived, either uptown or downtown. Thats why old phones had letters on them as well as numbers.

[@haroldfridkis3536]

Thank God that times were simple and carefree. I really miss those days. I was born in 1965.

[@annastasia4403]

Interesting video about life from the past

[@silverfox5507]

Well done .

[@dylancooper3690]

practically ALL of the activities described in this video still occur, even with the internet.

[@scottthomas3792]

Dungeons and Dragons night....there are countless role playing games now, but that's one of the originals. Buncha nerds having a great time. Boards and card games work when the power is out. So do books. Analog broadcast signals use fairly large chunks of the rf spectrum, but we're more tolerant of poor reception. The picture might be snowy, but it didn't break up....

[@patrickcannell2258]

I am a boomer. I experiences this as well as the Internet, these were better times. You had at go everywhere, but so what, gas was dirt cheap.

[@scottyg5403]

Everything was cheaper!

[@risingabovetheoccasion]

Back then, social interaction was the norm. Today, when you go in public everyone keeps to themselves and it is SO WEIRD.

[@maxwellspeedwell2585]

A friend and I went out for burgers. They were 21 cents at Arctic Circle. But it was too late at night and the burger joint was closed. We went down the street to LaFreniers (very fancy place). We told the hostess that we just wanted burgers. When we asked the price she was a little apologetic, and we were more than shocked. They were a dollar!

[@IkanGelamaKuning]

I wrote letter to my girlfriend in mid 90s.

[@tuirseach9895]

WE NEED TO GO BACK

[@paulbroderick8438]

Yep, now so many consider themselves smart asses working from home considering 'proletariat crafts' as untouchable.

[@stevieray6216]

Many things you expound on seem so basic as if saying “first we breathed in, then we breathed out”. But when I look at screen-addicted teenagers today I realize the need to explain how life before the www was not only possible, but actually fun. Many would even say... better?

[@SJHFoto]

I was thinking that as well, it seems almost laughable that these concepts have to be explained, but I haven't been a teenager in 30-some odd years, so I guess these things just aren't done now

[@Cosmicblast77]

And vinyl records have made a come back. 😅

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Yes! Even at Walmart I noticed the selection of vinyl records is larger than the selection of CDs.

[@blabbergasted4380]

Hard wired in human brain. Lot more crazy these days.

[@andysupple4838]

Men were Men and Women were Women

[@jimfesta8981]

Long distance phone calls were kept intentionally high by the phone companies. They charged you more for a colored telephone that didn't cost them anything more to make as opposed to the traditional black or white phones.

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

👍

[@karincervantes8998]

I miss it.

[@theresaheyer537]

hey i still read for entertainment........many do i'm ssure...

[@jameshayden8789]

I suggest we get rid of the intraweb.

[@kandy-fv3ir]

Life before the internet was much better people would hang out more and go to malls

[@haroldfridkis3536]

The good old days.

[@pattycake8272]

You need need to get out and come to a small town once in awhile.

[@scofab]

I think this one's a bit of a stretch, but thanks again all the same.

[@hearttoheart4me]

Can you give some examples. At least 8 minutes of them.

[@larryn1929]

I was born in 1963. This video is100% correct.

[@riverbluevert7814]

The 1960s and 70s were a time of turmoil. I agree it's a stretch to say everything was better during those decades. But I was 20 years old in 1980. And I think the 80s and 90s were better times than now. People are far more divided by politics, race, and gender now.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

hey scabface.. or whatever your name is.. a bit of a stretch in what WAY exactly?

[@tbone1574]

​@@larryn1929 I was born in 59. I'm right there with ya..

[@KellyNorman-wu6qr]

I remember these days I grew up in it

[@jaimecaceres1621]

? What happened to the Americans? Before, a proud, God-loving, prosperous, intelligent and hard-working people. They were the best. The best civilization, the best culture, the best citizens. They were the best.

[@user-Danswife]

What happened? Socialists started brainwashing the children and within a few decades...boom..here we are with a f-d up world of social justice warriors, 1 million "genders" and the #1 most coveted profession is being a professional victim! Plus younger generations being brainwashed into thinking the U.S. is full of racism and the black community must take a stand by......#1 bringing back segregation (convincing them they must have their own places.) #2: Making them think that judging by only the content of one's character isn't right, they must instead, see all white people as racist. (By judging them by the color of their skin) I could go on and on but, you get the picture.