Do you remember life before the internet?
I was born the year the internet became available to the public, but during the first 7 or 8 years of my life, I didn’t know what it was or that it even existed. Even after I learned about it in school, most people I knew didn’t have internet. Hell, I still remember the displays AOL had in places like Wal-Mart where you could pick a disc out of the bin and try the internet for 1000 hours.
If you wanted to play video games with people, you played with friends in the same house. I remember my brother owning a book that had cheat codes for every popular game at the time.
It seemed like a simpler time. I’m unsure if it’s because I was a child, because it was pre-9/11, or because we were not so completely absorbed into the internet. Perhaps a mix of all.
Everyday Immortal 