Before the internet my home was where I usually started and ended my day, if I made it home that is, rest of the time I was outside doing, well, something or anything. Hanging out downtown, walking around exploring the areas around the rivers, partying. Never a dull moment. Now I only really leave the house for work or to pick up necessities
I started not going out much around 1999, spent untold hours on irc and playing with linux and apache, was around 25 or so. little older now and, well, yeah, now its due to age hehe
While I agree that this is largely untrue, I will say that there were quite a few people, especially old retired people, that would just sit and watch TV for hours and hours on end every day while drifting in and out of sleep. Usually news channels, sports, or infomercials.
Those people are still around, but they existed before too.
This just isn’t true. This was not the way of it before the Internet.
OP is a terminally online cope
idk personally I was just re-reading lord of the rings for the nth time
Before the internet my home was where I usually started and ended my day, if I made it home that is, rest of the time I was outside doing, well, something or anything. Hanging out downtown, walking around exploring the areas around the rivers, partying. Never a dull moment. Now I only really leave the house for work or to pick up necessities
How much of that is due to getting older, though?
I started not going out much around 1999, spent untold hours on irc and playing with linux and apache, was around 25 or so. little older now and, well, yeah, now its due to age hehe
While I agree that this is largely untrue, I will say that there were quite a few people, especially old retired people, that would just sit and watch TV for hours and hours on end every day while drifting in and out of sleep. Usually news channels, sports, or infomercials.
Those people are still around, but they existed before too.