How did we find out about ANYTHING before the internet?

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10 years ago what did we do?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.uwec.edu/Library/archives/photographs/mcintyre2a.jpg

MICROFILM

― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Wrote notes on bits of paper, put them into plastic bottles and threw them into the sea.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Those things couldn't have existed ten years ago. They're the proof that Al Gore is really the Intelligent Designer of Everything.

We worked on the field without sound or music and in black and white.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

www.google.com

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

10 years ago I was using Yahoo, I think.

― PlayfulPuppy (playfulpuppy), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Libraries, telephone directories/RINGING AND TALKING TO SOMEONE (oh no!), encyclopaedias. (Now I am so ignorant I don't even know how to spell that word.)

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

also, not caring.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

We had an Encylcopedia Brittanica.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/evening/19831003/100.gif

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, newspapers and magazines. Which I often read at the library, heh. I read a heck of a lot more magazines/papers on a daily/weekly/monthly basis when I couldn't get that kind of fresh information elsewhere.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I asked my parents

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.insidejoke.tv/images/200105/encyclopedia2.jpg

http://www.insidejoke.tv/200105/encyclopedia.asp

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/21/

http://theyseethenumber.ytmnd.com/

― |l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l| (eman), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

http://uncyclopedia.org/images/9/91/EncyclopaediaBritneyannica.jpg

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 3 February 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Before the internet, I actually already knew Everything.

― Mitya (mitya), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Could you provide a link to Everything? I would like to know it too.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

There was a time when there was a whimsical pleasure in leaving things to chance, and getting things wrong.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

i never found out anything.

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I saw those red, white and blue airmail envelopes in a Chinese shop last week and felt a tinge of sorrow.

― andy --, Friday, 3 February 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

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