chickenfried
Super Noob
Reading the morning paper with my cup of coffee starting with the sporting green
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Things you miss pre internet days
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norcalAF
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well, my 22 year old body
analog communication in general has suffered for me. i used to be a prolific letter writer and had a few dear dear friends and family members who also wrote. I loved getting letters in the mail. it was such an event to get one from my uncle michael. now i just get emails from him in all-caps which is fine but, gosh, his hand writing is incredible. wrote in sharpies and crowded lettering with long stream of conscious thoughts transcribed.
we need to get back to that. letter writing is such a beautiful thing.
my wife and I write letters back and forth with a few of my elder relatives, it really is a wonderful experience to send and receive handwritten correspondence. I wish I had kept more of my mothers letters.
1) Simple, outgoing public courtesies, looking a stranger in the eye, smiling and wishing them a good morning/afternoon/evening.
2) Talking to a youngster (in the presence of their parents) without them thinking that you are a potential child molester.
3) When the phone rang (with a clanging bell) it was someone you know that is calling.
4) Calling anyplace and having a human answer.
5) Grinding across the Pacific Ocean in a four engine propeller driven aircraft at about 350mph. As a kid, this was an adventure.
6) Living for four years overseas with no telephone. Sending and receiving hand written letters was golden.
7) Phone numbers where the first two characters were letters. Our number was Roger-7-0560.
8) Being able to send away for some toy with a cereal box coupon (remember the baking soda submarine), or finding a toy inside.
9) Walking down our street in Cupertino with my .22 rifle in a sling over my shoulder and everyone saw it as normal.
10) Living in SoCal in the early-mid 50s (even with the smog) and having the sky full of all kinds of aircraft (jets/props). Lots of aircraft manufacturing in those days.
I have many more but I've bored everyone enough so far.
Dan
2) Talking to a youngster (in the presence of their parents) without them thinking that you are a potential child molester.
3) When the phone rang (with a clanging bell) it was someone you know that is calling.
4) Calling anyplace and having a human answer.
5) Grinding across the Pacific Ocean in a four engine propeller driven aircraft at about 350mph. As a kid, this was an adventure.
6) Living for four years overseas with no telephone. Sending and receiving hand written letters was golden.
7) Phone numbers where the first two characters were letters. Our number was Roger-7-0560.
8) Being able to send away for some toy with a cereal box coupon (remember the baking soda submarine), or finding a toy inside.
9) Walking down our street in Cupertino with my .22 rifle in a sling over my shoulder and everyone saw it as normal.
10) Living in SoCal in the early-mid 50s (even with the smog) and having the sky full of all kinds of aircraft (jets/props). Lots of aircraft manufacturing in those days.
I have many more but I've bored everyone enough so far.
Dan
Interesting, I have shoebox crammed with love letters between my Mom and Dad when they were dating in the late 30s, early 40s. Lots of love expressed between those two, it is great reading.
Dan
norcalAF
New member
when we were cleaning the garage, I came across a stack of letters my ex wife wrote me during my time in basic training and deployment, my current wife insisted on those being lost to time! lol
I'M talking to you NOW. I'm right here in front of you. Am I that boring? No, you can't look at the phone and listen to me. I'm tired of repeating myself.
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If my cat had a phone, it would just have my phone number on it, and only pictures of me. I don't think he realizes that you're not supposed to love your mom like that.
The pride I had in having the latest version of the McMaster-Carr catalog at work and always the first one in the company to get the new one when it came out.
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Agent Orange
The b0y ninja
1.Having everyone’s phone number memorized.
2. Opening an encyclopedia to figure shit out ... as a start.
3. Only reading newspaper for the news and it seemed the world was nicer. (It was not).
4. More interaction with the kids.
5. Cycle News and City Bike were moto gold.
6. Magazines mattered.
7. Finding something good on the tube was awesome.
8. Calling friends was the connection.
9. The phone book was important.
10. Nobody knew of you without knowing you.
I could go on
On item no. 6 my first few rags of Playboy and Hustlers were like the Bible to me. Those things got me through my adolescence. Now? Porn on demand.
MC BumSlap
Big Belly Bum Scud
I don't miss accidentally finding chicks with dicks porn mags in the local creek where bums hangout.
Bay Arean
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I always thot those magazines were too valuable to get lost. Ha.:
This made me think of a ride I was on years ago. We were stopped, I went to pee in the bushes and I found a porn DVD.
Who still buys porn on DVD? Or even owns any to drop on the side of the road and lose it.
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buellistic
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This made me think of a ride I was on years ago. We were stopped, I went to pee in the bushes and I found a porn DVD.
Who still buys porn on DVD? Or even owns any to drop on the side of the road and lose it.
Dude.......you touched it!
Climber
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AAA Maps.
littlebeast
i feel… motivated
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this reminds of a friend who was telling me about her kid - she was doing homework that involved a lesson that mentioned prehistoric hunter-gatherer people searching for their food. her daughter wanted to know how they searched for food without the internet. another friend was weirdly surprised when her 4yo was looking a magazine and trying to swipe the cover sideways like an ipad. she had no idea what to do with it.
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
I miss not having the internet of shit. Does your fucking clothes dryer really need wifi connectivity?
Eldritch
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LOL, MAPQUEST.
doc4216
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Mapquest for the win! Print them out and goooooo!
However, I still have a McNally map book of the US. Instead of traveling with it, I mark all the roads I have ridden on my various bikes. It’s fun flipping through the states and seeing the routes.
