"And that, children, is what we did before AskMetafilter."

"When I was a student in the mid-90s, there was a cubicle in one of the University ladies’ toilets that was 'the problem toilet.' It was like a problem page..."

Great comment by penguin pie on wowenthusiast's question about pre-internet physical bulletin boards.

https://ask.metafilter.com/370857/Tell-me-about-your-adventures-with-pre-internet-physical-bulletin-boards#5277437

#PreInternet #BulletinBoards #history #TheBeforeTimes #pre-internet #communication #ProblemToilet #toilet #funny

Please Tell Me about Pre-internet Personals Ads

In Ask Metafilter, "I've always been fascinated by the personal ads of the pre-internet times and I bet there are people here on Metafilter who could tell me more about what the practical experience of using them was actually like..."

https://ask.metafilter.com/370406/Please-Tell-Me-about-Pre-internet-Personals-Ads

#personals #PersonalAds #newspaper #PreInternet #classifieds #dating

1987 Washington Post review of #julianschnabel show in the #preinternet era, bombast still worked. The text seems naive today, but it's kind of refreshing to think of a time when it seemed #art and #painting still mattered. Schnabel may be great at self promotion and a subpar #painter but you gotta admire his #chutzpah #neoexpressionism https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/11/19/schnabel-signifying-what-in-ny-an-artists-brazenness-in-too-vivid-display/2b12ef31-7787-4101-98c2-a1a32528fe72/

I miss when friends came over unexpectedly and unannounced just hoping you would be home and ready for their company ♥️

#Gay #Friends #PreInternet #ThingsAdultsDontDo

Who here remembers the #bbs days?

I started with Wildcat BBS and graduated to Renegade. (Wonder what Cott Lang is up to these days?)

To my high school self, only the rich ran Worldgroup (Major BBS).

#oldschool #preinternet

@jimdonegan Showing my age here... I used to run a BBS using OS/2 because it could run it in a virtualized environment, still allowing me to use my computer to do other things. Couldn't afford a dedicated computer just for the BBS.

It was all I could afford just to have the dedicated phone line for the BBS.

#oldschool #bbs #preinternet

👾A bit of #Irish IT / #preInternet #history:
I was digging though old stuff in a box in the attic and found a copy of Telecom Éireann’s predecessor to Google - a physical, printed directory of online information services from the early 1990s, pretty much in the format of a phonebook!

It even includes XtraVision (a once popular Irish video store chain) site running on #Minitel! 👾
Who needs Netflix?! 📼
#Ireland #computerhistory

🤣 #90s #80s #PreInternet

https://www.reddit.com/r/90s/comments/wcmjjy/sometimes_facebook_ads_are_actually_useful/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf