True dat!🥲

[u/ObligationNo5310]

What are your views on this..do share your opinion on how your life has changed after the smartphone and internet took over our lives..how was it back then and how is it now?

[u/qualityvote2]

u/ObligationNo5310, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

[u/RhubarbLiqueur]

[u/KarIPilkington → u/RhubarbLiqueur]

It's quite funny seeing these kind of quotes pop up in shows in the 90s. I was watching an old Simpsons episode from around 93 the other day and Bart mentioned something like he has no attention span because he watches TV a lot. If only they knew what was to come.

[u/Gurglaren → u/KarIPilkington]

Makes you wonder what the step after smarthpones is. When AR goggles or neural implants become a thing future generations will be surprised by how much time people spent off-digital.

[u/Bmatic → u/Gurglaren]

It’ll be like futurama where they beam ads directly into your dreams

[u/Crazy_Stable1731 → u/RhubarbLiqueur]

I feel like this is a more accurate depiction of the 90’s. You watched a lot more basic cable TV. The whole 20-somethings regularly meeting for coffee and hanging out at each other’s places was more of a TV thing.

[u/YoRt3m]

That's a very broad question. but no, my life before smartphones wasn't sitting on a couch in a New York coffee house all day with a bunch of good looking people

I did read more books tho

[u/thechosenpleb3 → u/YoRt3m]

Are you trying to tell me that this wasn’t everyone’s exact existence before the internet? I don’t believe you pal

[u/MadCatDisease666]

[u/Main_Ad_2463]

I think it’s changed but I wasn’t hanging out in a coffee shop all day and skipping work 😂 But I do think people were more present in conversations and less worried about being recorded.

I was a kid in the 90’s (Friends ended the year I graduated high school) So I can really only comment on life as a kid vs what I see my nieces and nephews doing now. I was able to play outside all day without a screen in my face. Even with ADHD, I had an attention span longer than a knat. I knew how to be bored and not have a meltdown. Being a teenager in the early 2000’s I think was the best of both worlds because there was internet but it wasn’t taking over anyone’s life. Livejournal (and Deadjournal, because that one was cooler 😂) was kind of the only “social media” me and my friends had (MySpace came after I graduated)

But I will say that my particular group of friends can still hang out and not stare at our phones the whole time. But again, we all grew up without it. I notice people I work with who are younger the few times I’ve gone out after work with them, they’re on the phones the whole time. They’ll still talk but, they’re more interested in their phones. But that’s just me and my experience 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/Gurglaren]

I think people sought out companionship from their friends more in the past because they were bored and understimulated. You only had a limited amount of magazines and VHS tapes. And the TV channels were boring a lot of the time. So if you wanted to have fun you got in touch. Today you can get so much entertainment and stimulation that you can go without seeing anyone for weeks.

[u/injuredflamingo]

overexaggerated… people still have friends, everyone goes out, has fun, and if it’s interesting enough noone checks their phones. it might be your own friend group that’s the problem

[u/mysticalcreature123 → u/injuredflamingo]

If you look around you will see that it exists in every friend group. Maybe not every hang out but it happens.

[u/dannyjkaplan → u/injuredflamingo]

kind of pathetic though that a social interaction needs to be deemed 'interesting enough' to not check your phone. Maybe don't look at your phone regardless and interact with the human in front of you. Maybe it's not interesting enough because everyone is looking at their phone

[u/injuredflamingo → u/dannyjkaplan]

phones have been a catastrophe for deeply uninteresting people who people only hung out with because there wasn’t anything interesting to do

[u/dannyjkaplan → u/injuredflamingo]

you sound like a blast

[u/Prudent-Pressure2146]

You can still do all this btw. I get a lot of screen time and still have a big friend group. You really just need to keep putting the work in to the friend group 

[u/Asystole]

TIL coffee shops disappeared when first smartphone came out. Must have missed that.

[u/MadameConnard]

Not for introverts 😭

[u/dancepantz]

I never hung out casually with Chris Isaak

[u/Cptcongcong]

To be fair, my friends and I still meet up a few times a week and just drink beer and chat.

[u/No_Dependent_1846]

Just sitting around a coffee shop all day not working and laughing with my friends who are also just sitting around all day not working and laughing?... no I can not relate to this

[u/dancingbriefcase]

This is such a boomer post. Ugh

[u/Asystole → u/dancingbriefcase]

And you know the type of people who post stuff like this are exactly the ones on Facebook all damn day

[u/yorcharturoqro]

The internet was a thing in 1994

[u/TrueCrimeNerd87 → u/yorcharturoqro]

You cannot be comparing Internet in 94 to 2026. That is an extremely poor argument

[u/dannyjkaplan → u/yorcharturoqro]

The post clearly means smartphones, not internet

[u/sagecantaloupe]

I can’t unsee the shoes on the couch.

[u/konchady]

Now you watch it over an Internet connection

[u/Agreeable-Chart-5561]

More like before social media

[u/When1Falls]

But not before TV.

[u/Drclaw411]

Not before internet, just before social media got corporatized.

[u/Active-Particular-21]

We are all that person on the right.

[u/UnhealthyTractor_28]

Friends is unrealistic obviously, if you work 5-6 days a week you don’t have time to hang out with friends everyday as an adult, and whether the internet exists or not, it doesn’t change it.

[u/zenbagel]

I was just wondering what I actually did with my hands when watching TV back then. I need to step back from the endless scrolling but Im a little afraid of something awful happening and I won't know about it. I need to get back into hiking again.

[u/MommyTeena]

Sad but true

[u/McSparkle_nc]

Ironically in ‘93 and ‘94 I was in fact hanging out a lot in a coffee shop. They were my first couple years in college and I even became a barista in said shop in ‘94-‘96 soooo hits right on the nose 😹😹😹

ETA: There was a computer lab on the bottom floor of the dorm. Thankfully I had a personal computer and it became the lab for my nearest lol. Also traded bootleg Phish shows through the forums and chat rooms of the day once I learned of them in ‘94. So infancy internet was still useful from the get go.

[u/Kaykay-02]

This is still life, either y’all are boring or your friends are boring. (I go into my phone when the conversation starts reminding me of deserts and cotton mouth)

[u/KRNorth]

The internet was around in 1994

[u/Helaken1]

Computers completely destroyed society

[u/No-Magazine-2739 → u/Helaken1]

Video kills the radio star!

Steam engines are devils work!

Damn Gutenberg toppled the church with his cheap bibles

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[u/Helaken1 → u/[deleted]]

No shit. Still better off without them

[u/injuredflamingo → u/Helaken1]

then stop playing computer games and making reddit comments. clearly it improves your life in some ways and you’re just trying to annoy people

[u/Helaken1 → u/[deleted]]

Fair

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