This pretty much. Skateboarding, rollerskating, D&D with friends during the week-ends and then coding and online games on the big bad Internet. In the early n

This pretty much. Skateboarding, rollerskating, D&D with friends during the week-ends and then coding and online games on the big bad Internet. In the early nineties it was a bit different: no Internet for me yet but I had already had a modem and I'd use BBSes. No cellphone yet but two of my friends already had pagers so we could "ping" them in real life at anytime and they'd call back on the landline phone whenever they'd be near a telephone booth. It wasn't crazy expensive: they were buying these on little jobs you'd do after school as a teenager. In my case it's the early to mid-eighties that were way less connected: no BBS yet for me. We'd be riding our BMX 2000 (wasn't skating yet nor playing D&D yet) and playing our 8-bit console. And learning to code thanks to books and printed magazines. Landline phones, typically still with a cord but friends didn't have pagers yet. In case of real emergencies people would drive to were they thought people were. Sometimes long rides. When someone of my family was killed in a road accident in 1986, my grandfather and one of my father's friend had to drive two hours to go announce my father the news: our week-end chalet in the Ardennes didn't have neither neighbors nor a landline phone.