Can anyone remember what you did evenings 10 years ago?

[qwertyMike]

Before the Internet.
1993

[LastKnight]

1. i was only seven...

but i would be hooked to primetime sitcoms...

namely that tim allen one... home improvement i think it was called.

-LK

[populistmom]

2. Ten years ago

I would have been sitting in an apartment watching Conan and thinking the same thoughts I'm thinking now probably only I was a mere little 21 year old.

Since I've been in a serious Pink Floyd mood lately, I'll add my favorite lines from "Time":

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find that ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

[flamingyouth]

3. Had to check books to find out who that guy is on TV

Thank Goddess for imdb.com and tvtome.com! :evilgrin:

[WilliamPitt]

4. 1993?

College. Bong hits. Homework. Bong hits. Star Trek NextGen. Bong hits.

[VelmaD]

35. Ditto...

just replace "bong hits" with "hot monkey sex with the ex-boyfriend". :-)

[madrchsod]

5. i had a job

and i`d be asleep by now...

[TlalocW]

6. Saturday nights in the college dorm

Was spent ordering a pineapple and Canadian bacon (so no one would ask for a slice - pineapple on a pizza was considered gross by most people I knew) and plopping down with homework in front of the tv to watch MST3K from 8-10pm, Saturday Night Live from 10:30 to midnight then Monty Python's Flying Circus and Black Adder until 1 am.

What can I say... I was getting 3 majors, didn't drink, and I had no social life.

TlalocW

[HEyHEY]

7. yes

Up to my buddy trevs place. Have smoked under his balcony cause his parents didn't care....smoke a joint or two. Meet up with everyone else..light things on fire, take them apart....more joints/smokes. Come home. Go to bed.

[Syncronaut Seven]

8. Feeding 5,000 Pterophyllum scalare

at 4 hour intervals.

You just had to ask.

[Khephra]

9. smoke crack and sometimes drink myself into oblivion

true story

[WilliamPitt]

10. Yoiks

[woofless]

11. Worked evenings in a paper bag factory. n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

12. Yes kinky sex, to much Vodka & Skunk & more kinky sex. Time

to burn barely a care in the world.

Now...... don't ask. I'm Mr Responsibility it's almost sickening!

[politicat]

13. 3rd year of college but first away from home....

So it depended on if I had a significant other and or a room mate.

If Yes and no, then studied until SO was ready for bed, went to bed, and got up early in the mornings to study more before workstudy.

If no and no, Studied late, got up a little later.

If no and yes, studied late in library, got up early and studied in dorm lounge. (Never got a single roomie I liked, dammit.)

If yes and yes, studied with SO at SO's house and only pretended I lived in the dorms.

Politicat

On Edit: Okay, so I'm a total geek. But even geek chicks can get laid.

[Ellen Forradalom]

14. Um, it wasn't before the Internet for me.

I read Usenet news.

[Liberal Veteran]

28. Same here. I was using Gopher, ftp, irc, usenet, email, lynx.....

...etc.

Of course you had to know a few basic unix commands, but the net was cool back then.

[lpbk2713]

15. Before the internet

I was dialing into BBS's with a 2400 baud modem and a 386 puter.

[Interrobang]

16. Uh, let's see...

1993 would have made me in grade XII (of XIII, don't ask, it's just the way the Ontario school system used to be), so evenings 10 years ago would have been something like this:

--homework
--tv (I particularly liked Black Adder, Ren and Stimpy, and Prisoners of Gravity, also Law and Order at 11PM)
--late-night phone calls from my then-bf in Toronto !! (and lots of phone sex after the 'rents were in bed!)
--writing on my Commodore Amiga 500 (my baby!), and maybe Compuserve if my dad was feeling generous
--lots of reading
--music (IIRC, lots of GNR, Mitsou, maybe Nirvana, but I can't remember for sure)

Basically, I've subbed the internet for tv, that particular boyfriend for a fiance (different guy), a Pentium II for that old Amiga (and guess which I liked better!), and The Dead Kennedys and Einsturzende Neubauten for Mitsou and Nirvana (although I still occasionally get a hankerin' on for some good old fashioned Geffengarbage). Oh, yeah, and subbed working out for doing homework. Only the reading part hasn't shifted mode.

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose, non?

[guitar man]

17. Smoke Pot..........

.......and play guitar. And the wife and I used to have sex a lot more back then!

[ZenLefty]

18. Played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons

Many times until the sun came up.

On work nights (I delivered pizza) after the shift was over, we'd hang out at Denny's until sunrise. Then it was back to the apartment, draw the blackout curtains closed and sleep until 3.

In retrospect, I'd say the Internet has enriched my life very much. Now I go to bed much earlier, and rarely stay up until 3. Or maybe that's just because of old age and a real job. :shrug:

[Rashind]

32. D&D used to be so fun!

Some nights we wouldn't even bother to go on an adventure, we'd spend the whole night in town trying to fuck over shopkeepers, and getting revenge on them when it didn't work.

I once took a crap in some guy's store because he wouldn't sell me a ring of protection +2 for under 10,000 gold. Rip off! Totally justified dump-taking. But anyway, although I successfully hid in one of his aisles, I blew my move silently... what a way to die.

[Dogmudgeon]

19. Same thing

It wasn't Internet, it was Usenet, like a great big BBS.

There was the BBS scene, too, but in 1993, things were going over to the 'Net.

--bkl

[proud patriot]

20. ummmmmmm nope

:shrug:

[OldEurope]

21. I was busily nursing my newborn daughter. Or sleeping.

O8)

[Lady President]

22. College

I was in college in 1993 and went to a school where there were only labs on Weds. and no regular classes. Not being a science major, I was drinking and having fun. As I recall I had a really good-looking boyfriend at the time too... ;)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

23. Yeah, playing with the internet... it did exist then

and calling BBSes

[Piperay]

24. Read more books and

watched more Television. :shrug: :-)

[Whitacre D_WI]

25. Hm. I probably shouldn't say this, what with the election and all.

Yes, I inhaled; and yes, I drank the bongwater.

[VOX]

26. Read more, got to bed earlier, talked to my girlfriend on the phone...

I'm now married to that beautiful girlfriend, which is terrific. I'd like to get back to reading -- I love the anticipation of a book.

And since I'm posting this at nearly 3:20 a.m., I *definitely* need to get to bed earlier.

:toast:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

27. Let's see I was in the 8th grade ...

daydreaming about how great high school is going to be ( and it was ) - playing with my 9 month old baby brother - eating blueberry muffins - practicising my clarinet - cursing my Algebra homework - staying up watching Conan and Dave - begging my mom to let me have cable in my room ( not until 1999 ! )

[maxanne]

29. I was working

Ten years ago I was a chef.

[Throckmorton]

30. Taking the dose, 1993, the year of the planned special exposure

Steam Generators must be destroyed.

Please return the Egg, it belongs to us now.

Throckmorton, the 19000 mR Man.

[Kolesar]

31. Bike to the pool, then come home and listen to college radio

I did not even have cable tv for a few years there. Then I figured out how to tap into the other half of the duplex and stole it.

[wysimdnwyg]

33. Stocking groceries

Man, that job sucked. I guess that's why I went to school in the day time.

[MissMillie]

34. Yep....

and man did I have fun!

[Braden]

36. Beam and Coke

midnight golf on various Phoenix area courses, excessive amounts of stimulants and depressants.

the occasional bit of homework. Usually reserved for tuesday night.

[northzax]

37. let's see, I was a Freshman in college

and i barely avoided AcPro, so I'm going with some combination of alcohol, drugs, girls, music and dice. ]

And yes, TurboGopher was a good time. and I read of lot of rec.music.phish back in the days of ten-fiftenn multiple page emails a day...