A world without Internet.

[Drago]

Never had computer rooms when I was at school.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Never had computer rooms when I was at school.

We had them in the late 1970s

 

[Drago]

I pre date mandatory pooter lessons by a fair bit.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I pre date mandatory pooter lessons by a fair bit.

Oh they weren’t mandatory back then. You had to express interest. Show some initiative.

 

[Drago]

I'd have had to buy a pooter and bring it to school, which would have show a great deal of initiative.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

It was around when you were a kid. Just that most of us didn’t have it at home and school‘s had access locked it away in computer rooms. Plus it was quite slow back then although books being text would be fine.

lol, I can assure you the small Italian nuns run primary I was attending in the late 60's didn't have a computer.

Never had computer rooms when I was at school.

Neither did we.
Could be that banks, universities, some government offices had them, but I really don't know.

Oh they weren’t mandatory back then. You had to express interest. Show some initiative.

Maybe so in the UK.
Or maybe you are a bit younger than @Drago?
I know I'm quite a bit older than him!

 

[Alex321]

We had them in the late 1970s

Yes, but not internet.

 

[raleighnut]

I could have had a computer in 1974 (a console IBM machine) they were scrapping them where my Dad worked (English Electric/GEC) but I didn't want it, no use for a 12yr old into cycling and music (I'd got my own record player by then bought from my wages as a Co-op delivery bike rider) and had access to my cousins Carlton Clubman as well as my own 26" wheel roadster with 3 speed SA and Cowhorns (my cousin had passed his test and had a Mk2 Cortina as well as a Vespa)
What use was a computer to me back then unless I wanted to catalogue my bogey collection so Dad took it back to work and chucked it on the scrapheap

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, but not internet.

Yes Internet, do keep up. The web is from the 1990s but Internet much older.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or maybe you are a bit younger than @Drago?

Yeah I’m late 50s rather than in my 60s like @Drago

 

[Mo1959]

Computers were only just appearing in schools as I left. Anything I know about computers has all just been self learned.

My main miss if there was no internet would be for streaming tv. I have a sky stream puck for all my telly watching now, both live and catch up. I’m sure I could live without the likes of Facebook no problem.

 

[Drago]

Yeah I’m late 50s rather than in my 60s like @Drago

I'm 56, you cheeky boy!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm 56, you cheeky boy!

Is that you, Captain Manwaring?

 

[raleighnut]

I'm 56, you cheeky boy!

Same age as my baby sister is now then.

 

[stephec]

I could have had a computer in 1974 (a console IBM machine) they were scrapping them where my Dad worked (English Electric/GEC) but I didn't want it, no use for a 12yr old into cycling and music (I'd got my own record player by then bought from my wages as a Co-op delivery bike rider) and had access to my cousins Carlton Clubman as well as my own 26" wheel roadster with 3 speed SA and Cowhorns (my cousin had passed his test and had a Mk2 Cortina as well as a Vespa)
What use was a computer to me back then unless I wanted to catalogue my bogey collection so Dad took it back to work and chucked it on the scrapheap

That was me when some of my mates were getting a bit too over excited about their Spectrums and Commode 64s, I couldn't sit and stare at one for more than five minutes.