I have a new job starting in December, and I'm moving to another state on fairly short notice. I've done about 90% of the legwork via the internet, including:

- Finding the job (indirectly) (via Flipdog.com)
- Arranging the initial phone interview (e-mail)
- Getting there for the formal interview (mapquest.com)
- Apartment hunting (apartments.com and others)
- researching the city (numerous sites)
- finding a hotel to stay at while I looked at apts (holiday-inn.com, etc)
- and so forth...

All this got to me to thinking (scary): What the hell did we do before the internet?!? Particularly, how did someone go about moving to an unfamiliar area?

 

There was no life before the internet. We all rode our horses to Western Union to send telegraphs. And took the stagecoach to go on vacation.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Raptor
[B]There was no life before the internet.

 

I don't know. Before I started to use the internet in 1988, I didn't need a job. I found my wife on the internet in 1993.....web barely got started. Today, I spend half of my waking hours on the web, but I can definitely live without it for weeks, especially if I'm on a Caribbean island. I don't think I'm attached to the web.....do you?

 

Car companies got away with alot more lying about quality problems.

 

i can't live without the net now

it's better than drugs

what did i do before the internet? hmm...dial up into local BBS boards using my trusty 2400baud modem, trying to download porn, games, and whatever else i can get on my 386DX-25 with 4MB of RAM, 1MB Trident VGA card, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and my Panasonic 25pin dot-matrix printer.

DEVICE=COSHIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=COSEMM386.EXE NOEMS
DOS=HIGH, UMB
FILES=30

LOL

 

I think the web is just an enhancement, I don't want to say replacement for the social interaction of people in a community.
If I needed a job, I asked my friends, needed a hotel, I would use the phonebook, meet a girl? go to a strip club..I mean it's all relative!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mindcore
[B]I think the web is just an enhancement, I don't want to say replacement for the social interaction of people in a community.
If I needed a job, I asked my friends, needed a hotel, I would use the phonebook,

 

Yes I had a life, humm can't quite remember it at the moment.

The internet is great isn't it?
95% porn, 5% everything else.



oh ya, this was my life

 

Exactly, back in 91, 92 I was running a Spitfire BBS system - and I was happy to upgrade to a 14,400 baud modem
Ahh - back when computers had a turbo button.

remember the Z download

axcilla