Lockdown ‘83

[Julia9054]

Since most of us on here are of an age to be digital immigrants, I was wondering what this current situation would be like in, say, 1983.
Before social media, how would we be coping, what would we be doing and how would be getting our information?

 

[classic33]

The BBC, TV & radio, ITV and the newspapers.

Local jungle drums as well.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Are we digital immigrants ? Many of us were online before the so called digital natives were born.

 

[Smudge]

Since most of us on here are of an age to be digital immigrants, I was wondering what this current situation would be like in, say, 1983.
Before social media, how would we be coping, what would we be doing and how would be getting our information?

We'd be out rioting like we did 2 years before.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

We'd be out rioting like we did 2 years before.

We didn’t all live in Toxteth or Moss Side you know!

 

[sleuthey]

how would we be coping, what would we be doing and how would be getting our information?

Same as now, similar to now, same as now.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

But going back to question.

Didn't channel 4 launch in 1982? So we would have the BBC , ITV and channel 4 news to watch. Plus the news papers and radio, including world news on short wave. Internet bulletin boards for any random theories you wanted to read.

But at that time, at the age I was, I didn’t watch the news so much. The spread would also be slower due to a lot less travel both at home and internatinally.

I would be coping same as now. I’m not one to worry and back then even my grandmother wouldn’t be old enough for me to worry about.

In fact many would probably cope a lot better as they wouldn’t consume mis information and news 24/7.

Lot more UK manufacturing capability then as well, as Thatcher’s policies will not have shut a lot down just yet.

Vaccine, probably years or decades away. None of the gene sequencing and computational capacity we have now,

 

[Smudge]

We probably wouldn't have cared about any pandemic in those days. We all thought we were going to die in a nuclear war with Russia anyway.

 

[classic33]

But going back to question.

Didn't channel 4 launch in 1982?* So we would have the BBC , ITV and channel 4 news to watch. Plus the news papers and radio, including world news on short wave.

But at that time, at the age I was, I didn’t watch the news so much. The spread would also be slower due to a lot less travel both at home and internatinally.

I would be coping same as now. I’m not one to worry and back then even my grandmother wouldn’t be old enough for me to worry about.

In fact many would probably cope a lot better as they wouldn’t consume mis information and news 24/7.

*November '82

 

[Smudge]

I expect the government would have sent out some leaflets.

 

[matiz]

We would have relied on our town crier down here.

 

[Smudge]

We would have relied on our town crier down here.

Or possibly Jumping Jimmy Thunder.

 

[Julia9054]

We were alot better at coping with being bored back then.

 

[matiz]

Or possibly Jumping Jimmy Thunder.

Absolute legend

 

[Soltydog]

I'd have only been 14, wasn't really interested in the news at that age, but we had an Atari 2600, so i'd be stuck playing that for days on end
However if it had been in 1985, that would have maybe been good news for me. If my O levels had been based on expected grades I doubt I would have failed 7 of them, I wasn't expected to be that bad