Any time not taken up by smartphones was occupied by television.
We watched a lot of television. And it was utter crap. I remember watching The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and some other show on reruns every night. Kids watched cartoons like Transformers and He-Man which were just half-hour long commercials for lines of toys. Star Trek was great but there were only so many episodes so we watched them over and over. I used to go to the actual library and check out books, something that ensured my teens and 20s would be spent as a miserable, suicidal incel (I got better). Up until about 2004, I had a little list I kept in my wallet of people's phone numbers. If you didn't know someone's phone number, you could go to the phone book and literally look them up. That's right, there was this gigantic book printed on thin paper with everyone's name and number in it, in alphabetical order. If that sounds like a huge privacy violation, the technology to abuse it didn't exist. The movie "Terminator" (1984) has a scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger tracking down Sarah Connor by finding her name and address in the phone book.
I used to go to the actual library and check out books, something that ensured my teens and 20s would be spent as a miserable, suicidal incel (I got better)
You think that teenagers who voluntarily spend time in the library are popular with girls?
No. I can assure you that this is not the case.
In my 30s, due to the complete breakdown and destruction of my old life, I was able to find self-confidence in overcoming the carnage. Afterwards, rebuilding my shattered life, I was finally able to have the experiences most people have in high school. And I haven't set foot in a library since then.
Any time not taken up by smartphones was occupied by television.
We watched a lot of television. And it was utter crap. I remember watching The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and some other show on reruns every night. Kids watched cartoons like Transformers and He-Man which were just half-hour long commercials for lines of toys. Star Trek was great but there were only so many episodes so we watched them over and over. I used to go to the actual library and check out books, something that ensured my teens and 20s would be spent as a miserable, suicidal incel (I got better). Up until about 2004, I had a little list I kept in my wallet of people's phone numbers. If you didn't know someone's phone number, you could go to the phone book and literally look them up. That's right, there was this gigantic book printed on thin paper with everyone's name and number in it, in alphabetical order. If that sounds like a huge privacy violation, the technology to abuse it didn't exist. The movie "Terminator" (1984) has a scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger tracking down Sarah Connor by finding her name and address in the phone book.
what does this mean?
You think that teenagers who voluntarily spend time in the library are popular with girls?
No. I can assure you that this is not the case.
In my 30s, due to the complete breakdown and destruction of my old life, I was able to find self-confidence in overcoming the carnage. Afterwards, rebuilding my shattered life, I was finally able to have the experiences most people have in high school. And I haven't set foot in a library since then.
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I didn't lose my virginity until the humiliatingly late age of 31.
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