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The world was not an entertainment-less void before TV & computers. There were social gatherings, reading, writing, radio, games, thinking, hobbies and crafts,
by xyzzy123 3y ago
The world was not an entertainment-less void before TV & computers. There were social gatherings, reading, writing, radio, games, thinking, hobbies and crafts, etc.
Most people probably went to bed earlier though.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoAnd yet someone more than a decade older than me once told me they were a hippie and slept around in their youth "...because TV went off the air at 9pm and there was nothing else to do."
- oceanplexian 3y agoI mean, I grew up in the 90s and it was absolutely an entertainment-less void compared to today. At night TV channels would go off air or be replaced by some QVC ads. There wasn’t netflix, if you were lucky your parents had 3-4 VHS tapes. Internet was only a thing rich kids had. Hobbies were for older people. If you were young and wanted to be entertained you would go hang out with your friends, go ride a bike, or go to the mall. All of these were fairly social activities.
- usrnm 3y agoI also grew up in the 90s, and I spent time reading books. A lot more fun than most shows you can find on Netflix today
- watwut 3y agoI also grew up in 90ties and TV played movies till like 2 am. And oddly, it resulted in more variety of things I have seen, because algorithms today tend to restrict offering to the variations of the same. A lot of my schoolmates had hobbies or things they did after work.