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Post by RyanGoslingFan99 on Jul 17, 2011 18:10:36 GMT -5
I didn't have consistent internet till 2006, so I was bit behind the curve on alot of things. My question to you all is when did you get consistent internet (or internet for extended periods of time) and how did you get your information on various subjects before then.
I stated earlier that I had almost no knowledge on energy drinks or things of that nature outside of the mainstream red bulls. I usually got information from kids or people I knew. Oh, the stories I use to hear about Red Bull. Like how athletes use to use them to get an advantage, but this was before they came on tv or were just starting to air so it was still kinda fresh, naturally everyone started using them or how combining them with different foods got you better results. Most of this stuff is by word of mouth.
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Post by whitejefe on Jul 17, 2011 18:30:07 GMT -5
Definitely an interesting question! I never really thought about it. I learned things through TV and friends, just like everyone, but I can honestly say in retrospect that I wasn't ignorant to a lot of things. I'm sure for a lot of people the internet just opens up a whole new world, but I never really felt that way, but then again, I've had an internet connection since I was 9. I never really used it for much until I was 13 though, when I used it for porn, wrestling news sites, and forums. Things like that. I was on it way too much, and spent 2 or three summers on it pretty much exclusively. Not really doing much else. Then years later, with the advent of Facebook (I never was big on Myspace), I was on it constantly with it. Only in the past year have I cut down on my internet time and limited myself to what I feel is a healthy medium.
To get back on topic though, I never really had any interests growing up other than wrestling and video games, and like I said, I'd had internet since I was 9, so if there was anything I wanted to know video game or wrestling-wise, it's just always been there. I was very, very fortunate now that I think of it. As I got older and got really into music, which didn't really happen until I was 17, I never would have discovered some of my favorite bands without the internet. Oasis and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club I became fans of through RoH wrestlers using their songs as entrance themes, and my musical tastes really grew from there. Definitely an unusual method compared to years past. As much as I hate some of what the internet has done to society, it really has changed everything, and a lot of things for the better.
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Post by RyanGoslingFan99 on Jul 17, 2011 18:36:51 GMT -5
It was the exact opposite for me. The internet opened up a new scary world. Where people could cut you with the stroke of a key. The wrestling and video games were my main interests too. I passed on so many games because I thought I wouldn't like them only later to find them on best of internet sites and have to go back and play em or finding rare games and thinking nothing of em and then finding out they were worth big money!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2011 16:49:22 GMT -5
Everything Wraku has said is the same thing I would have put here, just minus the energy stuff. I remember being on the MVZ 1.0 boards constantly, just looking up movies that Jack Jekel, Eric and so many others were reviewing and watching them online because 99.9% of them I have never heard of before. I still do that now, but back then I was on my laptop constantly. It was new, exciting and a learning experience not just in entertainment and things like that, but life too in some ways.
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Post by maynard on Aug 5, 2011 0:37:59 GMT -5
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