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Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)

submitted 8 months ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I lived before the internet. AMA

[–] admin@beehaw.org 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Way back then, how did you spend your time while having a satisfying bowel movement?

[–] dm_me_your_boobs@lemm.ee 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reading shampoo bottles

[–] admin@beehaw.org 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My favorite was Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap. Absolute crazy talk on that bottle!

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

David Bronner, one of the grandsons of Dr. Bronner, is a fantastically interesting person with a lot of really charming eccentricities I think you were trying to capture when you said 'crazy talk'. I've met him a few times at medical psychedelics conferences, he was introduced to psychedelics at burning man and has bought fully into how it's expanded their mind and has helped them heal.

[–] admin@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Interesting! What, precisely, have psychedelics healed him from?

[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I would say that's their story to tell

[–] admin@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the links!

[–] babyphatman@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Oh shit! We call that the "God soap"! Recommended toilet reading for sure.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

You’d read the labels of whatever the hell was within reach. Shampoo bottle, toilet cleaner bottle, soap, whatever.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 6 points 8 months ago

Shitting is better than working. Next question.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reader's Digest.

[–] admin@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

What my parents used, yes!

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Trying to remember that last TGA downloaded from a BBS the night before...

...and 30-odd years later, by writing this on Liftoff for Lemmy on Android.

[–] admin@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah! I remember using BBS prior to WWW.