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Raced motocross and folkrace when we had dial up. 

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Well I'm too young for this question... :ph34r:

 

Before I USED internet, I did child stuff... Like tag... xD

 

And recorder club....

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I, together with my brother, made games, websites (yes, lol) and videos—The kind of stuff that I managed to end up with as a profession a decade later. Ever since we were tiny human beings we've had our goals clear in our minds; That has made every decision in life easy to make thus far. I think the fact that we had to start out without any direct access to the Internet for a major part of our lives gave us a really stable basis of understanding, because everything had to be understood as we had no immediate way of looking things up over the net.

 

Ah... memories; Good times.

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Im not THAT old. We had dial up as far back as I can remember. When I wasn't allowed on the computer id play with my trading cards, play my drums, ride my bike. That's as close as it gets for me in terms of before internet.

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people will look back at this generation and think.

what was it like living without the internet?  Ahhh simpler times.

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LEGO, so much LEGO

YES, though there was a serious horror when you discovered you had trapped yourself, Lego all around you with no escape. 

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I, together with my brother, made games, websites (yes, lol) and videos—The kind of stuff that I managed to end up with as a profession a decade later. Ever since we were tiny human beings we've had our goals clear in our minds; That has made every decision in life easy to make thus far. I think the fact that we had to start out without any direct access to the Internet for a major part of our lives gave us a really stable basis of understanding, because everything had to be understood as we had no immediate way of looking things up over the net.

 

Ah... memories; Good times.

That was more of a life lesson than an experience. lmao. Still awesome though.

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Whole bunch of ps1+2 games. I remember only having croc & demo disks for my ps1. But on my ps2 I always used to play Ratchet and clank 1 and 3 (i want 1 for vita), Jak 1 & X, gran turismo 3 and getaway: black monday. I got dial-up around about the time I got Jak X, but it was dial-up, so it barely worked (10-20 minutes of loading runescape, only to discover i didn't like it :angry: ).

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Before I got to use internet for the first time at the age of 8 - 10 years... I don't remember much.

 

I played with Legos, plaid with former "friends", got beaten up quite often in school, beat my little sister quite often too (I was a violent kid back then, last time I ever did any physical harm to anyone on purpose was when I was 14 years old, 2 years ago)... Read comics (mostly Doland Duck), watched TV a lot (now I almost never watch TV), played PS2 games... In a nutshell, basic stuff.

 

 

Whole bunch of ps1+2 games. I remember only having croc & demo disks for my ps1. But on my ps2 I always used to play Ratchet and clank 1 and 3 (i want 1 for vita), Jak 1 & X, gran turismo 3 and getaway: black monday. I got dial-up around about the time I got Jak X, but it was dial-up, so it barely worked (10-20 minutes of loading runescape, only to discover i didn't like it :angry: ).

You used to play some old Ratchet and clank- games and Jak and Dexter -games too when you were a kid? I remember playing a lot of Ratchet Gladiator and Jak X on PS2, also Jak 2: Renegade, but didn't play it that much. Now I wish I still had my PS2 and didn't give it to my little sister.

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I always had internet :P

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Lego Racers and Lego Island and real Legos

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:lol: I still go outside now that I have the internet...

 

...but in relation to tech before the internet, we always had a computer, a console and a TV. I spent a lot of time on MS Paint on windows 3.1 :lol:

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I played games on my ps1 when I was a kid and I had bmx bike :P





 
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Played my Playstation 2 and GTA Vice City on my PC  :P

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>implying more than 10% of the people on Linus tech Tips are old enough to know the feeling of no internet

>tfw

^ Exactly.... 

 

Didn't really use a computer till I was 13. All I did was play flash games... 

Before that I would go outside and do shit. 

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^ Exactly.... 

 

All I did was play flash games... 

Before that I would go outside and do shit. 

Like? Play flash games? In the park?

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Like? Play flash games? In the park?

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Played Flash Games

 

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Those were the days....

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pretty much this

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grew up at the bottom of a mountain with bush (forest) all around and creeks I most of the time i wouldnt come home untill it was well into the night 

catching fish and crays ,cooking it on a open fire - it was fun :D

Its all about those volumetric clouds

 

 

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I've never really not had the internet. I slightly remember dial-up and 256kbps broadband. For the most part I've had 20mbps/2.

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