Calling all old people...

Oh yes. I definitely remember my life before google. I even remember my life before computers were everywhere. In school I learned how to use the typewriter and not a computer. Well, we did actually get computer lessons. It must have been the most basic kind of programming. Nothing I've ever had any use for. And we didn't have cellphones. We made plans in advance and had to keep them. Oh, and we didn't have a remote. For anything. Watch or download online? VHS/VCR was the new and coolest thing ever. *stops thinking of the good old days or it could continue for days*

Doing research the old fashioned way can be fun. Yes, fun. In a small scale. I'm not that stupid. 😉

Computers, phones or tech in general got loads of great use. Sometimes I just think it goes too fast. Hey, I'm old. Let me rant. Too many relying on tech for too many things and more or less stop thinking for themselves. But all in all the positive outweighs the bad big time. But it sure makes us lazier.
 
I'm 19 and I do remember clearly my internet life before Google and Youtube and I feel like a real long-time geek for that.
My parents divorced when I was 4 or 5, and I was going at my father's one weekend out of two, and he was a computer geek so he had about 3 computers. I spent a lot of time on these and I remember using Yahoo before Google to find websites about my favourite cartoons and anime and then Harry Potter. And I was surprised when I found out Youtube was invented in 2005 (or 2006?) because I always remembered watching videos on the net, but then I remembered I actually downloaded them. So it makes me feel like a real nerd to remember life before Google and Youtube.

On the other hand, I was living 90% of the time with my mum, and we didn't have a computer until 2005, so I didn't work like everybody else. I wasn't going to go everytime at my father's to work, so when I was working home, I was looking things in our encyclopedias, dictionnaries. I remember it was quite slow to work like that, but I herited a certain method from that. Teacher would always say to the class "Don't take informations just like that on the net, you have to compare, to see what's relevant..." and that's what I was already doing because, well, I wasn't working with the net.
The worst tough, was the image research. My mum had some archives, where she put pictures of all subjects she found in magazines and the like, about animals, science, geography....So many subjects! And when I needed an image, well I had to go through the 4 archive boxes. Man that was crazy!
And everybody was giving their work dactylographied, with an ugly title in 3D like it was the trend back then, and my work were always written with a pencil. I remembered it was quite slow, but I always had excellent grades and I was learning more when I had to turn pages and pages to find informations. In a way, it was a better way to work, even if it was slowlier.
 
On basically the same note, I can remember as a kid back in the '50's reading all of the predictions about what we would have by the year 2000. In particular, flying cars, 20 hour work weeks, tourist resorts on both the sea bottom and the moon, atomic power completely replacing fossil fuel, robots to do the menial and hazardous jobs, and, of course, the "electronic brains" that would make our lives so wonderful.
 
On the younger end, I must confess that it takes me FOREVER to use the phonebook. Those yellow pages kill me. I just google.
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