re: Was life better before the internet?

I have been addicted to the internet from nearly the beginning. I try like hell to log out but there's the one, next great thing, the next great thread here, the next really unique news story or whatever. Truth is, it's not there, but I keep scrolling on and on.

Yes, life was better, growing up in the 1970s and high school in the early 1980s. We had an entire area of town we could go on our bikes, during summers we were outside all day playing baseball with tennis balls so as not to wreak havoc; we'd play hide and seek, we'd play army, we'd ride up to the levee to watch the President and the Natchez pass on their way upriver and back down to the city around 4:00 p.m.

We could walk to the snoball stand, we still had neighborhood groceries and drugstores that were owned by people we knew and they would let us stay in there for hours reading magazines or comic books.

For a couple summers right around high school we had a local arcade a few blocks away and I could make $2.00 last for two to two and a half hours if I played the right games.

We would go inside only when we were tired or thirsty, it was raining, or we wanted to play board games or run our AFX/Aurora cars.