What did you do in your spare time before you had a computer? watch Television or drink alcohol or take drugs, has a computer enhanced your life? has it made it better? are you happier now than before. I could not manage without mine, as it has given me a great opportunity to do things I always wanted, as I enjoy typing letters. doing my accounts, surfing the net, posting on the Forum and just learning things I never had the chance to do before. Tired but happy!!!

I used to have a Sinclair Spectrum, and plenty of others before that, right back to the old Atari 2600 and the 'pong' TV games before that! Hours of fun playing classic games. Look at "Elite" - a masterpiece in less than 32k!!!

The internet has brought the world into your home and new forms of communication to the masses. I just wish todays computers were more like the old machines of old, where you switched it on and you were off, and had a decent language you could program and learn more about how your computer worked.

Anyone got any vacancies for a Sinclair Basic programmer? I can write a game in under 40Kb!

i had an amstrad and used to code my own games - looked very basic visually but i managed to make my characters swear! ooh and i was only young.

i suppose i used to party more (before my computer became one of my bezzie mates), esp when living in a student ****hole nearer town. middle-agedness with a rorring open fire has now began to set in. roll on 26.

I used to read far more books than now. However, I agree with you Hal, I find the internet quite fun and educational. I got my first computer, an old Vic 20, 20 years ago and became so hooked I ended up doing a degree in computing and now, and now, and now, and now, help help drag me away I've had enough no one more posting look someone's responded to one I wrote earlier nooooooooooooo

I got it when i was a little girl so before i got it i used to play out with kiddies and we used to make dens and id decorate them with bits of old carpets and then theyd get trashed by a group of other kiddies and then we'd have 'den wars' where we'd trash each others den ever though we never actually saw each other cos if we were in someone elses den and saw someone coming we'd run off. Tee hee.

I used to have a Sinclair Spectrum, and plenty of others before that, right back to the old Atari 2600 and the 'pong' TV games before that! Hours of fun playing classic games. Look at "Elite" - a masterpiece in less than 32k!!!You just said one of my favourite consoles from the 80s mayte!!

I also loved my commodore 64 which i still use :)

I loved

Coleco,Atari and Commodore (I like mostly classic things)

The irony for me is that I actually have way more hobbies and interests since I have had computers and the internet!I did used to just sit and watch TV. But when I bought the old 386 off my older brother I actually went on a computer art diploma course because the computer had Coreldraw and I wanted to learn it so now I have a BTEC in computer design! I also have web design qualification. i have new hobbies like film-making, doll collecting, you name it! And more friends than I had before. So actually computers have made my life more interesting! Of course I do tend to waste time on web forums rather than watch TV now, oh dear!

I got a computer when i was 13 but not the internet til i was 16. God knows what i did before that, played with barbies and dreamt about boys i guess. I had a games console as a kid, but i used to borrow a friends gameboy when we went on family driving holidays.

Hehe, the comment from kittykat- i used to do that. Imaginative use of a zed bed, blankets, and some lego! I also set up my own detective agency with my usborne guide, and scanned the local papers for ads about lost cats.

Now my evenings consist of watching films (then using the net to look up the actors!), playing on facebook or viva pinata on the xbox.

I had a life before I got a computer and the net. Erm, must get around to moving off my sofa. Been there for 10 years solid now!!!

listen to music, play console games, and i suppose i watched crap on the telly with the missus

I can't remember....the computer is eating my brain :o

Play games consoles and watch TV.

I just love having all this knowledge at my fingertips. I have to laugh at the trouble I used to go through when a trivial question got wedged in my brain.

I'd call the video store and ask the clerk, "What was Mel Brooks' character's name in 'Blazing Saddles'?"

I'd call the library and ask the reference librarian, "Pickett's Charge... which Civil War Battle was that in?"

I'd call my sister and ask, "Is Fritz Weaver Sigourney Weaver's father or uncle?"

Now I can deal with my own mind worms -- at any time of day or night. Ahhh.:)

seems we cant live without it nowadays:o, and yet when i started school it was a treat to go on the computer!:D
It was the old bbc computers with big floppy drives.:D

I just love having all this knowledge at my fingertips. I have to laugh at the trouble I used to go through when a trivial question got wedged in my brain.

I'd call the video store and ask the clerk, "What was Mel Brooks' character's name in 'Blazing Saddles'?"

I'd call the library and ask the reference librarian, "Pickett's Charge... which Civil Battle was that in?"

I'd call my sister and ask, "Is Fritz Weaver Sigourney Weaver's father or uncle?"

Now I can deal with my own mind worms -- at any time of day or night. Ahhh.:)

What a brilliant little phrasette! Happens to me all the time - something stirs a memory I can't quite grasp and onto the internet I go to find the answer.

I've had a computer for so long now - my first was a Sinclair ZX81 - that I find it hard to remember what I did before they were around.

I think they can expand your interests enormously - you read about things on t'internet you'd probably never come across if it didn't exist. I always feel really grumpy and lost (how sad is that!) if t'internet is down - I once nearly brained a workman who cut the connection cable in the garden and who I thought had cut me off!!!

That's so long ago I really can't remember! :D

StarSparkle

I just watched t.v. or read newspapers and books. Now I feel an adrenalin spark every time I log onto my computer. I love it. :)

I had a life before I got a computer and the net. Erm, must get around to moving off my sofa. Been there for 10 years solid now!!!

LOL! Even I shift off the Settee more than once a day!

On topic, I used to play with Star Wars and Fisher Price figures. And Lego, all at the same time! Who says blokes can't do multi-tasking?! :D

Ah the good old days 50+ kids on a street corner playing hiddy or dicky or kick can and not a hint of trouble,sunday afternoons and indeed any day playing 30 a side football on the local field,making trolleys out of an old pram and some bits of wood,summer days get on the pushbike and bugger off somewhere,couldnt get us in the house then now the parents cant get the kids out,feel sorry for todays youngsters they havent learned how to enjoy themselves.

On topic, I used to play with Star Wars and Fisher Price figures. And Lego, all at the same time! Who says blokes can't do multi-tasking?! :D

Which were the hardest? Surely Fisher price figures were bigger, but less menacing. :hihi:


Got a ZX81 in, well 1981, and played Football Manager on it non-stop when we first got it. (I've kept my ZX81 actually but no tape player now to load games.... thank god)

I've only had the internet a few years, would be lost without it now. Great learning tool.

What before the net? Clubbing most nights, parties and smarties :)