What did people do at work before the internet?

[Crazy Cooter]

I didn't have the chance to sit at a computer or work in an office before the internet was available.  I was "stuck" with more labor-intensive type positions - that I sometimes wish i still did  .

Anyhow, for those of you that did work in an office on a computer... what did you do before the internet?  Work  ?

[Stingray]

Hell if I know. The internet was my main motivation for getting out of the auto repair business and into an office job. If I had to work here all day it would probably drive me insane.

-S

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Slept behind things, so I couldn't be seen.

[missioncontrol]

I think they all stood around the water cooler from the b&w photos I've seen

[Havok]

Played Leisure Suit Larry and Zork...

[Sephroth57]

lmao, before the internet. everyone knows the internet is what created god, which then created earth. the internet is the secret of life

[missioncontrol]

leisure suit larry rocks

[RetroJames]

lmao, before the internet. everyone knows the internet is what created god, which then created earth. the internet is the secret of life

I thought Google invented the internet?

[DarkKobold]

Wait, I thought porn started the internet.

Every great invention was started by porn.

[patrickl]

Yeah without internet people were still xeroxing buts. Or do they still do that?

[missioncontrol]

lmao, before the internet. everyone knows the internet is what created god, which then created earth. the internet is the secret of life

you mean to tell me Al Gore is god

[Stingray]

I think they all stood around the water cooler from the b&w photos I've seen

So, the internet is a digital watercooler, that every slacker in the world can stand around. Heavy.

-S

[RetroJames]

lmao, before the internet. everyone knows the internet is what created god, which then created earth. the internet is the secret of life

you mean to tell me Al Gore is god

No PORN created Al Gore...or was it Tipper?

[missioncontrol]

Yeah without internet people were still xeroxing buts. Or do they still do that?

now the just scan and send them as attachments

[Stingray]

We just got a new photocopier. Listening to three old ladies try to figure out how to work it is hilarious. I'm trying to pretend to be too busy to help.

-S

[DrewKaree]

We had a thread on this, I believe.  It had the "butterfly clips, rubber bands and pen weapons" in it.  It's around here somewhere.  Chain mail had a whole different meaning back then.

Stingray was so excited when he got hired, he built himself his very own office weapon.  I wish I could have been there on his first day of work when they told him "we don't have any trebuchet doors here.  What the heck IS a trebuchet anyways?"  He's been in a downward spiral since then.

Soon enough, he'll have slipped so bad he'll be looking lecherously at the old ladies and their hot-flash-induced glow on their cheeks, and he'll suddenly start noticing how intoxicating and erotic the aroma of freshly applied BenGay has become to him.

For the love of Pete man, don't EVER let the intra-nets die at work!  Your happiness at work depends on it!

[RayB]

Heh, I don't know if anyone else will see the humor in this:

I was always in chat rooms! That's right, before companies had web access, I was at a company that had a network, and on this network was a shared modem. Through that connection I would telnet to a local BBS and chat with friends.

See, it wasn't any different then!

[AC.]

Crosswords, newspaper, magazines, gossip at the water cooler.

I remember IRC chat in 1990. Got enough inane banter then to be done with chat rooms forever!  mostly.

[Harry Potter]

Wasn't there always an internet???

Dial-up bulletin boards used to be my addiction.

[M3talhead]

Psssshhh....


Back in my day, you didn't have time to go lally-gaggin on the interweb. Washin' dishes is what you did, its was all you did. Sometimes they'd let you out a da' kitchen to clean the scraps off some rich man's table. Maybe you even find a dollar waiting fo' you, but that was it!

So I dunn wanna hear nobody talkin' bout' no computers, or water coolers, or homemage trebou-whatchacallits. Until you've had the HONOR of cleaning out the grease trap in the fryer with yout BARE HANDS.....I dont wanna hear ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!

[nostrebor]

Played Leisure Suit Larry and Zork...

This is what we did

[Stingray]

Stingray was so excited when he got hired, he built himself his very own office weapon.  I wish I could have been there on his first day of work when they told him "we don't have any trebuchet doors here. 

Stupid nine foot ceilings.

-S