>>1135993Living before the internet was an interesting time. Day to day life was more of a mystery. When you left your house, you never knew what you would find. You could get lost in your own town. If you wanted to know what a place was like, you had to go see for yourself. Want to know what France is like? What it looks like? Well you better fucking get on a plane and fly to Paris. The best you could do otherwise was to go to a bookstore or library and look at a travel book about France and read some paragraphs and see a few photos. But there was no google earth, no satellite photos that you could see, certainly no fucking google street view. And living in the USA you would never, never interact with a Frenchman. Certainly not like with this board where people from all around the world talk to each other all the damn time. Maybe, if you lived in a big city, there might be an occasional visitor from France or 1 exchange student in your school, that you could meet and maybe ask what France is like. But that was it.
Really all the countries of the world were much more isolated and distinct, because people didn't interact with people from outside their country, or even be able to know much about what was going on in the news in other countries. Hell, most people weren't even up on what was going on outside their own city.
That's part of what made a show like the X Files plausible. You could imagine that in some small town somewhere in the US crazy shit like that was going on. Before most people had cell phones, video cameras, internet, etc. Nowadays the X files would be completely unbelievable, because the second something happened it would be filmed and then tweeted around the country, and the world, in seconds.
I don't know if I can really relate the feeling of the unknown being over every hill. But otherwise, the 80s were cool, full of good music, rapidly advancing computer tech, good style. And the US economy was kicking ass. It was a boom time.
