What it feels like to be the last gen to remember life before the internet

Post by neverknowsbest » Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really miss having places people would congregate, a common hangout spot, specifically because you didn't have 24/7 tabs on where all your friends were. Wherever it was-- a bar or park or wherever, you could always breeze by and find a few people there. Now everybody's so divided, pinging "favourite" folks to hang out (I'm guilty of it too)... but it takes away that window to get to know some peripheral friend that you might get "stuck" with at the park with and find out they've got loads of neat stories or fun ideas or whatever.

And I truly hate people looking at their phones during parties. If you're that bored just go start another conversation with somebody else, christallmighty :\

Post by throwanem » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 10:04 AM UTC

eli wrote: post #100

throwanem wrote: post #49

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Says the guy whose company is so specific to the Internet that it wouldn't exist in a world without one. Not that I don't see what you're saying, but there are a lot of us out here who've built careers around the Internet which are, at the very least, far better than any other prospect that might've been available to us. Certainly in my own case - absent the Internet, I'm nothing but a mouthy unlettered redneck with…

The business I'm in is media. It's been around before the internet.

True; on further examination I see you publish trade news, and there is nothing uniquely Internet-dependent about that. You'd have needed much greater capital investment to do so without it and would probably be less profitable for the same revenue, but those aren't the points I made in my initial cavil, which I now gather was unjustified. Fortunately, said cavil is also severable.

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