The Life Before Internet
Majdy said on December 9, 2005 15:29:
do u still remember go to post office to mail your letters? and sometimes it took months before your letter arrives to the person you wrote to.
do u still remember go to travel agent to reserve your tix? or you have to wait in line because it was so busy? do u still remember that u have to go outside your house when u want to do or get something? and many more examples.
do u think that life is better that we have internet? do u can live without it?
rox-kuryliw said on December 9, 2005 17:12:
life without ther net , would be alot more difficult for a start, i wouldnt know much about roxette or my other fave bands at all !
Debora said on December 9, 2005 17:27:
rox-kuryliw, I agree with you.
But about mail I like the e-mail, it’s faster and cheaper, but I still prefer the traditional one, it’s more personal.
klair said on December 9, 2005 20:12:
Being old enough to remember life as a rox fan before the internet....well, I remember using the telephone alot to find out information - and I HATE using the phone (I have a phone phobia lol!) and the hours I spent writing letters.....
I wouldn’t trade it for the world, I love the net and all that it brings.
Oldag75 said on December 9, 2005 21:37:
Some of the movies that touched upon the internet before it became commonplace were, in retrospect, amusing. “Tron” was the first of those, with people actually being sucked into “computer world” and made to compete in computer games. And there was “Johnny Mnemonic” with Keanu Reeves, who was an information courrier who had stuff stored on a disc in his brain. At one point, Keanu was running around the city, saying desperately, “I’ve got to get on line.”
Notice how, in most movies, the computer / internet stuff works so well, all the time? People click right to where they want to go, with no delays or problems at all, all the time. Probably the most accurate movie with a computer “connection” was “Apollo 13” – the way the computers in mission control all went haywire when the oxygen tank blew up on the spacecraft, with all sorts of crazy stuff leaping across the screens. If you deal with AOL, you typically experience an Apollo 13 event about every three days.
silverROSES said on December 10, 2005 10:01:
without the internet I never thought that roxette are still alive and stil making songs! I thought they were disbanded already when they released their first greatest hits collection!!!
thanks to the internets at least the fans around the globe can share their thoughts.
rox-kuryliw said on December 10, 2005 10:34:
yes my sister told me the same thing after the first greatest hits album. I didnt become a fan until 1998 when i got the net and WICF came out.
TinyBubbles said on December 10, 2005 13:25:
A lot of my friends live just fine without it. AND I DONT GET ITTTT.
Vixzter said on December 10, 2005 17:29:
@klair: guesse what....i found one of them letters the other day ;-) in a box full of rox stuff
klair said on December 12, 2005 10:06:
@vix - I still have a little book that you/we did lots of silly drawings in lol!!!
RobS said on December 12, 2005 10:50:
I can’t imagine how it was before i had the net, after having it for so long you come to rely on it. If i need to know something, google is just a few clicks away.
The only thing i don’t like is that i probably spend a little longer using it than i would like to.
Majdy said on December 13, 2005 14:41:
what I remember is I had to look every magazine every week to check if there’s any news about Roxette.
zeeshan said on December 19, 2005 21:15:
My good old favorite MAJDY! How do you keep coming with these brilliant threads? Good job!
Well I don’t even want to think about the life before internet. It seem to be pre-historic already!
zeeshan said on December 19, 2005 21:16:
Oh and Majdy, I think your posts are mostly great and very interesting! I still remember the “Once upon the time” Great work! :)
harriej said on December 20, 2005 18:56:
If there is a computer available, I always am going there to check e-mail and surf the internet (for example TDR) to see if there is something new.
On holidays, when there is no computer I usually visit a cybercafe or something similar once or twice in 3 weeks time. But for the rest I can do without a computer.
At home there is not passing a day without turning the computer on. Also at work I use internet quite a lot to get the information about suppliers of equipment I need.
So a life without a computer is quite difficult, but not impossible.
Majdy said on December 20, 2005 20:03:
hey, Zeezhan :) good to see you here. I heard the rumour that you’re busy with your band. congratulation :)
thanks for still remember that thread :)
hope to chat with u again sometimes if you’re still using MSN :)
bunny2 said on December 20, 2005 21:53:
Well, it’s very nice and easy to get stuff and news via internet. But I also can say that times without internet was not bad. I was always writing letters with fans and we always shared the news and stuff we could get. It was a nice time.And I have to admit that I am missing the old time and that emailing is not so personal like writing a letter by hand...
Vixzter said on December 20, 2005 23:59:
look ppls....in the old days before the internet...
once upon a time
a roxette fan had to rely on.....wait for it......the postman! (or woman) to bring us letters of joy and roxette fan club mail and we had to read music magazines (those things printed on paper) to know when they were going on tour and we had to pick up telephones and dial numbers to order tickets.
none of this flashy ’one click’ order tickets ’2 click’ pay for it.....ooooooooooooohhhhh no we had to actualy speak to someone at the end of a phone line......scary!
also.....you had to get your cassette (yes i said cassette!!!) recorder ready to record the chart show every sunday just to hear where your fav roxette single had gone into the charts......the single that you had gone out and brought the casette,cd, 7” and 12” of.....you had to go into a shop for this BTW!!!! and pay with real money
the internet came along and took all the fun out of it ;-)
well some of the fun, cos my fun is now tormenting you lot with random comments and stories on threads that are days......sometimes weeks old!!!
@klair: WHAT DRAWINGS!!! LOL i don’t remeber them...... scan some an i can laugh lots ;-)
BTW.....we also didn’t have scanners before the internet cos really.....what was the point! ;-) No PC, no internet so no scanner ;-P
Majdy said on December 21, 2005 19:16:
ah, I remember when I sit beside the radio for hours to hear the Roxette’s position in the chart. now, we can just click on the internet to find out...
but I kinda miss the exitement of waiting the DJ mention their song! I don’t feel that exitement anymore...
and yes, I prefer to read snail mail so I can see my friends hand writing, and I JUST love to collect stamps from around the world (but I have lost it :( )
I am glad that few months ago, I met new snailmail friend from scotland that like to exchange letter :)
Debora said on December 26, 2005 21:34:
I knew some nice people thanks to the Internet. The best about the Net is that the world seems smaller, when you are on-line every single place in the world is just at a “click” of distance...
roxlad said on December 9, 2005 16:52:
Internet is good for sorting many things out. Also I have learned a lot through it. What I really don’t like is mobile phones. Everytime you go out and want to be in peace smb rings you!!!! If you make yourself unavailable then they tell you off... I prefered the times when you had a phone card in your pocket and no harrassment! Ok I know it’s good for emergencies and stuff... but that’s about it in my opinion.