How did people waste time in the office before th'internet?

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Honestly, I've forgotten.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Steamy office romances. Thank god we don't have to deal with that anymore.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

doodling big breasts

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah we now have creepy internet ones instead

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Played tetris.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tetris *and* solitaire.

― Miggie (Miggie), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to write poetry parodies and fax them to my friend Christian!

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There was this thing called THE WATER COOLER...

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I had one job where I would actually read books instead of working. Other past times included free cell, drawing, and writing song lyrics.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to write Bible parodies and fax them to my Christian friend

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure we got the internet before water coolers.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently "filing" was big in pre-internet offices.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

it involved DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP DICKIN', either the givin' or receivin' of, presumably.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Shooting rubber bands into other people's cubes using the acoustic ceiling tiles to richocet. The floor would literally be coated with rubber bands by the end of a session ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

At my old job I sat at a computer that wasn't equipped to surf the net.. so I'd make little people-shaped objects out of balled-up masking tape.

― Mandee (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to write Bible parodies and fax them to my Christian friend

Haha! Steve, that is without a doubt the funniest thing you've ever posted.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend has a big sheaf of humorous fax forwarded messages, much like annoying humorous email forwards.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

reading and listening to music

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

exactly, i used to listen to a ton of music at work prior to having web access.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I still do that, in fact, even more now.

Steamy office romances. Thank god we don't have to deal with that anymore.

What offices did you work in, and how could I reach their HR departments?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd love to have an office romance but my workmates are all desperately unattractive

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Office jobs sound so appealing.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I know!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to write games on the sly using the nice sun workstations we had, card games ported from the amiga. and then spent forever playing them. and spider.

there was also the 3d rotating cube thing i wrote for the greenscreen wyse 50 terminal we used to use (80x24 characters, none of this fancy bitmap graphics stuff). turned out nice, changed 'colour' as it rotated according to the light source and camera position, everything. you kids and your openGL, don't know you're born...

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE

― Amazing Randy (Amazing Randy), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd love to have an office romance but my workmates are all men

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

And mine are all women. Do you want to swap, stevem?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does that stop you stevem?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, free your mind you homophobe.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

and your co-worker's ass will follow

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

There was the amazing and ever-increasing rubber-band-ball which wasa bit of a hobby of mine for a while, and I played Minesweeper.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, yes! I had a rubber band ball as well. I also liked to put paper clips together and form long chains with them.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, you've never known a world without the internet! Not as a grown-up, in any case.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

True, but I did work for some companies without access.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't work in an office before there was the internet. Lucky me!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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