Before The Internet?

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This weekend I have done nothing but surf around on website...could barely name you most of them but it occupied my weekend (which needed to be relaxing and cheap!)..

Made me think...what exactly did we all do when the internet was not around!?
 
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Well, that's just blasphemous!! I love reading, still read incessantly. I discovered the other day that a few contemporaries (if you like!) oncourse are big readers and had a good conversation about it at Ascot. It has been suggested that we have bit of a pressroom reading club amongst those of us who are interested - to recommend good reads and swap books and the like.
 
When I first read that I thought you said "still read incestually". Luckily, I read it again.
 
I tend not to surf. I usually have a definite intention when I come online: check email, check the sports sections of newpapers, research one or two things, etc.

Before, I tended to watch TV or do crosswords (real ones, eg The Times) check the more ordinary form more than I do nowadays, etc.

I sometimes wish I were more interested in reading but I'm afraid if I pick up a book during the day it tends to put me to sleep, which then makes me feel ill when I wake up.

My brothers are all avid readers, as is my wife. I feel left out of the conversation when they start discussing their recent reading.
 
Shadow Leader said:
It has been suggested that we have bit of a pressroom reading club amongst those of us who are interested - to recommend good reads and swap books and the like.
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That sounds like a great idea. Perhaps you could recommend to a few of them that they start out by glancing at a formbook, Shads? :D
 
I've been on a shitty dial-up connection for the last week BTW (and for the forseeable future). Like going back to the fecking stone-age. Well, not quite.
 
When I was a teenager my Grandmother was still alive and she used to tell me about all of the technical advances that she had seen in her life. (From horses to cars for instance) I was a little jealous thinking at that point not a lot had happened in the time I lived in. Phew! Granny would be amazed now. It all becomes taken for granted though, the mobile phones, internet, digital cameras, music downloads.

I can spend hours surfing and must curtail it otherwise gets boring. I love old books and feel sad that for many people books are a thing of the past.

I have a little book share club with mates, we pass them about, saves us money and means we can read a lot more than we would normally be able to afford to read, and then give them to Oxfam or a school when done.
 
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