Holy shit, I didn't expect that question in , fuck I am old.
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I clearly remember 10-year-old me lying on the floor watching Sunday morning tv. Soccer, football and the rest of the world, was on. I was bored out of my skull.
Flash Forward 50 years, can't get a freaking moment to myself.
I used to pull a random Encyclopedia off the shelf and find something interesting to read about.
masturbate maybe
Read books. Cereal boxes. Ride bikes and fuck around.
Playing outside a lot more, which was really fun. Hit the beach or swim docks and jumped off the highdives. Went camping. Bike adventures, etc. Lots more physical toys like nerf, Lego, beyblades, etc. CD music players, cassette music players, or MP3 music players, depending on the era.
People on the metro buses would read the paper to pass the time, listen to music, or read a book.
Back then, you could rent videos or games at a rental place, and there were many more physical hobby shops (there still are, but for live stuff, like aquariums now). Malls were a lot more alive and were true third places. Though even back then, I found people gorging themselves in a materialistic frenzy rather...distasteful. People still do it, just via Amazon and fast fashion online.
The biggest things I remember were how chill people were, the ubiquity of newspapers, smoking and cigarette holders outside, a lack of really any graffiti, and people being incredibly chill and a bit more open. There were also like, zero bike lanes or rail, so everyone drove everywhere.
Music, books and TV.
Threw rocks at stuff.
Trains, signs, each other,
Peed off of tall stuff.
Ride bikes.
Try to build ramps for the bikes.
Crash the bikes.
Ask your mom for a popsicle cause you have a fat lip now from hitting your face on your bikes handlebars.
Generally dumb things.
Freak out cause the kid s few doors down got his hands on some dry ice.
But the dry ice in bottles.
Run away when that nosy old lady calls the police cause people are "making bombs"
Suspiciously specific
Usually I use my phone when I an sitting around waiting for something. In those times, before I had a phone, I would always think about things I could and should make, and the techniques and mechanics of how they would work.
Cross-section books.
I read magazines, played videogames, watched TV, went "out and about", browsed the net, etc.
You ever stand behind a couple of geezers in line somewhere and they start talking about some random stuff? They didn’t know each other. They were just bored.
It looks like a fair bit of it was TV-watching, which is now being displaced.
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About the only time our TV gets turned on anymore is for 1) videogames or 2) watching youtube.
It’s mostly just a giant monitor at this point
Windows Solitaire. Or, before Windows, Solitaire with actual playing cards.
Before smartphones we had snake and Tetris on non smart phones and we liked it. Before that books and news papers were popular.
Books before, still books.
Books before, now ebooks while avoiding Amazon like the plague
Read a book, play card/board/video games, watch movies, listen to radio, go to a public space in your community (parks, squares, etc.)
They probably went out to harass the opposite sex for something interactive.
Literally complain about it while sitting on the couch bored
People use smartphones to pass the time?
Under which rock have you been living, and is there space left for me?
We used to interact physically with other people..
At 10pm on a weekday? I mean I get chatting to your significant other about stuff but outside of that I don’t see anything happening even if we removed phones from the equation.
They used to have these things called "books", before they were all banned.
LMAO..