What did we do before smart phones/internet.

[1187]

I am sitting here looking at autogeek not having to watch dancing with the stars. NCIS on Tuesdays means the tv is mine then so Mondays is my better half and daughters.

My question is what did we do before we could check out autogeek? I check out hunting sites to. Makes me want to read a book but I have nook for that so technology is great.


Anyway this is a great site and thanks for all of the information. I love all the pictures of cars that are detained too.

 

[HateSwirls]

Before Internet I found I spent more time with the family.
It seems that everyone is either on their phone or tablet these days.
I try and find balance but very difficult with all of the info here to read.

 

[1187]

Yeah I know what you mean. Everybody in my family is making plans for thanksgiving but after pictures are posted on facebook that's all everybody will be looking at.

I am lucky though most of us like hunting or fishing so we get to do that together. I am going to detail my nieces new to her car over thanksgiving. Man I like making them shine and I am getting better at it now to. Kind of best of both worlds. Doubt something you like and spending time with family.

 

[1187]

Yeah I know what you mean. Everybody in my family is making plans for thanksgiving but after pictures are posted on facebook that's all everybody will be looking at.

I am lucky though most of us like hunting or fishing so we get to do that together. I am going to detail my nieces new to her car over thanksgiving. Man I like making them shine and I am getting better at it now to. Kind of best of both worlds. Doubt something you like and spending time with family.

 

[swanicyouth]

I think people would come home from work and drink more alcohol at night. It wast pretty common for guys to just sit and drink beer after beer or highball after highball until they were stewed. People probably had more sex as well. Now they just watch it online.

 

[Real Riders]

Back in the 80's before internet and AutoGeek, I worked at a car dealer detailing cars. I had to learn from the head detailer who was around 50 yrs old with minimal teeth. His detail bay was full of junk and trash. He never washed a car. He would bring the car in the bay and wax the dirty car. Then he would buff it off with a high speed buffer. I asked him why he didn't wash the car, and he said he used the dirt as a rubbing compound. I guess it was his 80's version of a waterless wash. I never took his advice from him and just washed all the cars before cleaning them, and learned on my own how to clean cars

 

[ScottB]

I think people would come home from work and drink more alcohol at night. It wast pretty common for guys to just sit and drink beer after beer or highball after highball until they were stewed. People probably had more sex as well. Now they just watch it online.

I seriously doubt that alcohol consumption has in any way been reduced by cell phones and internet. Infact, I would suggest the opposite. We are becoming a society with no social being and no respect for anyone other than ourselves. Perhaps we are getting more comfortable with loneliness....

What happened to children playing baseball in the streets ?? What happened to date night ??? What happened to having to knock on the door of your potential date and asking her father for permission ??? Since when is it acceptable to carry on a conversation on the phone while shopping, paying, or ordering something with another live person ???

While the internet is a great gift and certainly put anything you want at your fingertips, that also is likely is worst feature. I just wonder if we will ever see "no internet" like we now see "no smoking".

..... off soapbox , small nightcap before bed !rops:

 

[allenk4]

In 1995 my Manager gave each of the Sales Reps a roll of quarters every Monday morning to last the week.

When my one-way pager went off...I always knew where the closest pay phone was.

 

[Bill1234]

back then, cars had muscle, and there was no texting and driving, People also payed attention

 

[Challynger]

Before smart phones/internet I watched more TV and played video games. What did people do before the advent of TV and video games??? :dunno:

 

[Bill1234]

Before smart phones/internet I watched more TV and played video games. What did people do before the advent of TV and video games??? :dunno:

Basically sit coms,board games and hobbies of their own

 

[beamerstrumpet]

Easy,

We actually had to learn to talk face to face with people, have good hand writing, and got more real work done LOLOL but seriously, all the above.

 

[Pureshine]

Easy,

We actually had to learn to talk face to face with people, have good hand writing, and got more real work done LOLOL but seriously, all the above.

:iagree: They have killed more people each year than drunk drivers

 

[Romans5.8]

What happened to children playing baseball in the streets ??

That's too dangerous. They could get hurt. Someone might kidnap them. I don't know all of the neighborhood kids and their parents aren't like me so I don't want to meet them. What if one of the other kids is sick? What if he gets too much sunlight? Better just keep him at home.

What happened to date night ???

What??? With Netflix at $8 a month and delivery pizza available all times of the night?

What happened to having to knock on the door of your potential date and asking her father for permission ???

Women aren't property to be traded with their fathers! And, they should wear skimpy clothes to assert their authority over their own bodies! And so what if young girls and boys want multiple sexual partners with no relationships at a high school age? It's part of learning who they are!

Since when is it acceptable to carry on a conversation on the phone while shopping, paying, or ordering something with another live person ???

I am entitled to the free advice. If they didn't want to give me free advice, then they shouldn't work there. So what if I call them, get advice from them, and then buy it on Amazon afterwards?

[These were all sarcastic responses, by the way, but very real attitudes of many people today!]

While the internet is a great gift and certainly put anything you want at your fingertips, that also is likely is worst feature. I just wonder if we will ever see "no internet" like we now see "no smoking".

..... off soapbox , small nightcap before bed !rops:

You know, necessity is the mother of all invention. Personally, I think the internet came about BECAUSE of the attitudes of people, not the other way around. Attitudes and ideas, education and morals need to change, not the technologies available to them. The kind of person who would get online and bash someone else for their thoughts (as opposed to just constructive discussion), or who would spend hours wasting peoples time, or any of these 'negative traits', is the same person whether the internet makes it easy for them or not. My thoughts anyway!

Blaming the technology is, perhaps, just as bad as the attitudes it empowers. People are the problem (well, some people). Blaming the tools they use is futile.

 

[beamerstrumpet]

WEll with out the net, I would still be washing with a old mop sponge, drying with a terrycloth bath towel or absorber, $400 (at rough est) richer, and not trying to make extra cah and not have a nice deep shine on my car

 

[Romans5.8]

WEll with out the net, I would still be washing with a old mop sponge, drying with a terrycloth bath towel or absorber, $400 (at rough est) richer, and not trying to make extra cah and not have a nice deep shine on my car

Haha me too.

Or when my bike got a little dusty, I'd take an old foam (dirty) pad and throw some paste wax on there and buff off with paper towels. Gee, wonder how those swirls got there?

 

[BillE]

I seriously doubt that alcohol consumption has in any way been reduced by cell phones and internet. Infact, I would suggest the opposite. We are becoming a society with no social being and no respect for anyone other than ourselves. Perhaps we are getting more comfortable with loneliness....

What happened to children playing baseball in the streets ?? What happened to date night ??? What happened to having to knock on the door of your potential date and asking her father for permission ??? Since when is it acceptable to carry on a conversation on the phone while shopping, paying, or ordering something with another live person ???

While the internet is a great gift and certainly put anything you want at your fingertips, that also is likely is worst feature. I just wonder if we will ever see "no internet" like we now see "no smoking".

..... off soapbox , small nightcap before bed !rops:

DING DING DING...We have a winner!

Well stated...

Bill

 

[vet]

Played solitaire with a deck of real cards! LOL!

I'm about due to cancel my cell phone. Last weekend the wife tried to call, and it didn't work, AGAIN. Had to laugh about a GPS, I was out in the 'boonies' and a couple pulled up beside me holding a GPS, and said this thing told us to turn and then turn on so and so road, and we have NO IDEA where we are! So I said follow me, and I'll get you back to the main road. I took them through about 10 miles of hilly, twisting back roads to get to the main road, I had to wonder if they had visions of 'Deliveance' in their heads. At least the roads were hard surfaced.

 

[bulldog shine]

How about you did not have the more bills. No cell phone bill and an internet bill. You also have now just do everything on the phone. Like everyone said no interaction. I bet most kids don't know how to right a letter and use snail mail.

 

[silverfox]

Before the Internet? Human interaction , real human interaction.

I work at a college and I have yet to see a student walking with their head up looking straight ahead or sitting at a lunch table or lobby without their head looking down at a device in their hand.

It's very very sad. Seriously.