What if.......?

kaizaku
kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
edited November 18 in Chit-Chat
Nowadays smart phones is almost everything. No one can live without it. Imagine if we never had smart phones, old TV, slow Internet . Jus like the early 90's. What would you folks be up to, and how do you think society be like? Some say it would be better, what are your thoughts folks...

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  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    edited April 2017
    MrStabbems wrote: »
    it would be just like the early 90's.

    Yes, I've researched this and I concur. It would be like the early 90's
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    edited April 2017
    I would be in the AOL chatrooms talking fitness.
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  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    I think people would take selfies with polaroids.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Don't have a smart phone and am still alive.

    With reduced internet- More snail mail. Less long distance shopping. Fewer long distance friendships. News from fewer sources. Would probably go to the library more. Listen to more local radio. Less cat pictures/videos. See less pictures of people's lives.

    I don't think it would necessarily make the world better.
    It wouldn't be terrible either.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    I'd be out playing sports and enjoying the outdoor. That is pretty much what I do now anyway. I hate technology.
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,110 Member
    edited April 2017
    @lstrat115 is the mfp D pix dealer. Seriously if u want a pic go to her. She has weekly specials and even takes requests.

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  • BedsideTableKangaroo
    BedsideTableKangaroo Posts: 736 Member

    porn over dialup. i was much more patient way back then. so right now, if it were still like that, i'd patiently be sitting in front of my computer instead of impatiently sitting in front of my computer clicking through 30 different tabs.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    porn over dialup. i was much more patient way back then. so right now, if it were still like that, i'd patiently be sitting in front of my computer instead of impatiently sitting in front of my computer clicking through 30 different tabs.

    If we were still stuck on dial up I would probably would have never developed a porn addiction.
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,110 Member
    MeganAM89 wrote: »
    A lot of people complain about how easy access to technology is making society terrible but I disagree. I think the main difference now is just that we have instant access to information about all of the terrible things that are happening in the world - before you'd have to, my god, read a newspaper to hear about it.


    J_Surita3 wrote: »
    I think people would take selfies with polaroids.

    This is definitely true. A lot of people like to rag on millennials for their selfies but then explain this?!

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    But in general I'd still be doing what I'm doing. Other than when I exercise or during the summer months when I want to go out to the beach or something I'm a serious homebody.

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    Selfies started wayyy back
  • ShrinkingViolet1982
    ShrinkingViolet1982 Posts: 919 Member
    I miss mIRC
  • kaizaku
    kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
    Technology sure has changed everything
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    I'm not very social, never have been so I'd guess that...

    If my social interactions and interests made me want to go out in public I'd probably be getting into trouble more. I have an impulsive personality and make a lot of random decisions.

    Or, I'd be a complete recluse...holed up at home reading books, playing video games, still watching tv and movies, listening to music, etc. Stuff I do now, just minus cell phones (which are my favourite invention ever) and the awesomeness of the internet.

    I think society might be worse. Today we can entertain ourselves and interact with people anywhere with our devices, or can stay safe at home and still do so. If we didn't have the convenience of modern technology more people might interact in person and there would be greater potential conflict that causes bodily harm. So I guess I think today is "safer".

    One more thing, I might be better at spelling if I didn't have the convenience of spell check and google every time I need it, lol.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I'd be holed up in a dirty motel 6 somewhere with a needle in my arm

    .... we still have time.

    for you, we'll splurge for a Super 8 Motel.



    and if you promise to do that filthy thing with your thumbs, we'll move up to a Red Roof Inn.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    I'd be holed up in a dirty motel 6 somewhere with a needle in my arm

    .... we still have time.

    for you, we'll splurge for a Super 8 Motel.



    and if you promise to do that filthy thing with your thumbs, we'll move up to a Red Roof Inn.

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  • STLBADGIRL
    STLBADGIRL Posts: 1,693 Member
    porn over dialup. i was much more patient way back then. so right now, if it were still like that, i'd patiently be sitting in front of my computer instead of impatiently sitting in front of my computer clicking through 30 different tabs.

    If we were still stuck on dial up I would probably would have never developed a porn addiction.

    Sometimes I need to be warned at work. I busted out in laughter and do not have a valid excuse as to why. bwhahahahahhahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    STLBADGIRL wrote: »
    porn over dialup. i was much more patient way back then. so right now, if it were still like that, i'd patiently be sitting in front of my computer instead of impatiently sitting in front of my computer clicking through 30 different tabs.

    If we were still stuck on dial up I would probably would have never developed a porn addiction.

    Sometimes I need to be warned at work. I busted out in laughter and do not have a valid excuse as to why. bwhahahahahhahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    porn over dialup. i was much more patient way back then. so right now, if it were still like that, i'd patiently be sitting in front of my computer instead of impatiently sitting in front of my computer clicking through 30 different tabs.

    If we were still stuck on dial up I would probably would have never developed a porn addiction.

    Wrong! Vhs tapes and mags would be under my mattress

    80's bush vhs tapes?
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    porn over dialup. i was much more patient way back then. so right now, if it were still like that, i'd patiently be sitting in front of my computer instead of impatiently sitting in front of my computer clicking through 30 different tabs.

    If we were still stuck on dial up I would probably would have never developed a porn addiction.

    Wrong! Vhs tapes and mags would be under my mattress

    80's bush vhs tapes?

    Hell yeah!

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  • BrinaBecnel
    BrinaBecnel Posts: 122 Member
    I'd probably be somewhere reading a book.

    Same.
  • kaizaku
    kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
    Time went slow back in the days, compared to now. Probably cos we have the Internet and a smartphone to kill time on, which goes fast.
  • SojournerThirteen
    SojournerThirteen Posts: 28,204 Member
    What if all our precipitation was air soft pellet-sized ice?
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