Read.
In addition to reading ….
As a kid, we were constantly outside. In the summer, spend all day in the pool. Three seasons, in the woods. Any time, playing with neighbor kids. Winter, skiing, sledding, snow forts
Without doom scrolling, we had time for actual activities. Marathons of Risk or Monopoly. Assembling and painting scale models. Building, fixing, or repairing whatever needed it
They probably went out to harass the opposite sex for something interactive.
Holy shit, I didn’t expect that question in <current year>, fuck I am old.
I clearly remember 10-year-old me lying on the floor watching Sunday morning tv. Soccer, football and the rest of the world, was on. I was bored out of my skull.
Flash Forward 50 years, can’t get a freaking moment to myself.
Comic books. And those weird bathroom readers.
Television was actually fun to watch. Magazines were actually fun to read. Video games were actually fun to play. Hell, playing outside was fun. Playing with toys was fun (even as an adult). Spending time with users on early internet forums was also very fun. Music was much more aesthetically pleasing to listen to (at least the hits of the 00s were, imo). We fidgeted with literally anything we could think of. Pens, rulers, balls (it’s not what you think), toys, even our own fingers.
It was really easy to get bored back then too, but at least it was really easy to escape boredom back then.
I remember being excited for pc gamer to show up in the mail
Those were the good ol’ days.
Magazines were well written, articles were new and fresh. The CNN 24 news cycle brought mass distribution of the news but before that you tuned in for the scheduled news hour you liked
Back when you had to tune in for basically everything
I had a Game Boy, that got a lot of use.
People use smartphones to pass the time?
Under which rock have you been living, and is there space left for me?
We have lots of space here… unfortunately, it’s also the only thing we have enough of.
Read books, play videogames, go outside and beat each other with sticks…
I was getting my vehicle worked over recently. At the time I was listening to a podcast. A couple other people, probably early 50s were chatting. The old dude in the corner, likely around 70-80 was just sitting there hands empty, looking around, reading nothing like some kind of psychopath.
For 40 minutes.
He did nothing.
It was honestly rather impressive.
I would have called the cops
Whoaaa whoa, whoa now. I don’t want the block demolished. Psycho old man strength vs shooty patootie police? I was just there for an oil change and to check on some potential damage.
Music, books and TV.
Same thing I do now. TV, video games, find something to do with friends.
Reading, swimming, hunting, fishing, camping, sports, board games, card games, plain old socializing.
We had something like e-readers and they didn’t need recharging as they were made out of dead trees. But each one held just one book, so you had to take a bunch of them to the bathroom with you.
This reminds me of the time I checked out all the Dune books from the library, they were all hardbacks and the stack was nearly 2 feet high. The librarian was like, “You’re not going to read all that before they’re due” She was right but she let me check them all out anyway.
Phone bad book gud
Readers Digest contained multiple books in one volume
Right. There were also Ace Doubles, but you had to be good at reading upside down if you wanted to use both halves.
They were abridged though.
