>>8123439Not sure if joking. Nobody responded, so I'll give some insight if this isn't a troll post. You are only looking backwards, with the advantage of hindsight and comparison, and without context. Give yourself these scenarios for contrast:
A person in 2125 looks back, thinking "dang, those poor people in 2025 before brain interfaces, and flying cars, and food generators... How did they manage to live with such primitive technology?"
A person in 1925 looks back, thinking "By george, those poor people in 1825 before cars and radio must have had it rough! How did they manage to live with such primitive technology?"
>A hobbyless shut-in might have just had television, newspapers/magazines/books, and later VHS and 900-number telephone services. At least we can shitpost and commiserate whenever we want.-call friends, maybe go over and hang out. Calling people used to be a very real daily hobby.
-go in public, be in clubs, etc
-write friends and family - on paper, with a pen and envelope and stamps. People used to send cards, too.
-print media as you said. Libraries were basically the internet back then.
-radio
-television - probably the biggest pastime for lazies, basically like youtube now
-rent a movie on tape, watch any tape from your collection
-listen to your music collection on tape or record etc
-a billion hobbies that still exist but can now be shared with an international community instead of local. Sports, bowling, bars, biking, hiking, photography, model kits, pick up chicks, origami, learn language, instruments - literally anything people do for fun.
>I wonder how easily people got lost just driving around if they didn't bring a map.If you live anywhere for a while, you get to know it. If you drive somewhere you don't know, you plan beforehand and bring a map, combined with the last resort of asking locals for directions. In general, as a driver you just get good at navigation the more you do it.
