Nostalgic People Share the Things They Miss From Pre-Internet Times

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jun 9, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Remember when the screen in our lives that everybody was so worried about was the TV? If you do, it's safe to say that you're probably pretty old. It's easy to paint the past as a better or more innocent time, precisely because it isn't whatever we're living through right now. However, it undeniably had its selling points.

This is something that has been outlined in a recent Twitter thread, in which those who remembered the pre-internet age were asked to share the things that they missed from that time. As you might expect, there were a few thoughtful answers on the topic. We may have entertainment, information, and other people on tap nowadays, but that isn't always a good thing. While we might not find these responses compelling enough to log off forever, they are food for thought when it comes to thinking about a cut down on screen time. 

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    Font - Eric Alper @That EricAlper People old enough to remember life pre-Internet, what are some less obvious things you miss about that time?
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    Font - scomo @Mouls Replying to @ThatEricAlper The anticipation leading up to the release of a major album. Then getting it home and playing it for the first time... that first note, first song. Of note: Back in the USSR, Gimme Shelter, Black Dog.
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    Font - West Coast Lass @Liv_F Replying to @ThatEricAlper Getting catalogues in the mail. I liked flipping through catalogues to see what was available, but, also, I really quite liked receiving big envelopes containing catalogues (the Wish Book, IKEA) in the mail. The whole paper catalogue experience.
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    Font - CarolJude (an Idiot's tale) @caroljude B... Replying to @ThatEricAlper -The ability to disconnect. We didn't wonder, all the time, what was going on at that moment, everywhere. -The excitement and glee at finding a bootleg vhs tape with rare video of your favorite band. -Knowing LESS about everything.
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    Font - Jenn Turner @WestVan8675309 Replying to @ThatEricAlper We didn't know every single thing about everyone every second. There was mystery.
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    Rectangle - Elly @twisted words Replying to @ThatEricAlper If you went out, people had to wait until you got home to call you.
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    Font - Chris Arnade @Chris_arnade TO Being content experiencing things without a need to share them immediately. Reading a book, having a conversation, just existing, and not worrying about, or even considering, creating content out of that.
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    Font - Lethality Jane @LethalityJane High schools did not used to email and text parents every time a kid missed a single class period. Quite frankly I think it's bad for my teenager that she can't skip English class once in a while without me knowing about it. Give teens the space for minor rebellions.
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    Human body - Mike Dunford @questauthority Not worrying about being unreachable for a few days.
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    Font - SLIM @Proficient Minds TV guides. Prank calling numbers in the phone book. Using our imagination and creativity to make fun
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    Font - Heghoulian @Heghoulian The Internet has completed the process Baudrillard described here, modernity's 'boiling down bit by bit into a culture of daily events'. What I miss is culture being something more than that. A Culture of the Everyday Tradition was nourished by continuity and real transcendence. Modernity, having inaugurated rupture and discontinuity, is now closed into a new cycle. It has lost the ideological drive of reason and progress, and confounds itself more and more with the
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    Font - Whyenn. @WhyTheEnn Having like only 12 movies on DVD in your household that you would just watch over and over and over and over again that are now ingrained into your psyche for the rest of your life
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    Human body - frank bullitt @the_blueprint every aspect of life wasn't optimized for the most profit and aggravation
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