As a single person living alone, I heavily rely on the internet for finding things to do. It’s been around my entire life. I used to live with a roommate in the city who could provide social interaction, but now I’m living alone. Would love to hear about experience from people about what city living as a single person was like pre-internet. How did you spend your time? How did you find social events and meet people?
What was life like for a single person living alone in the city pre-internet?
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We hung out at a lot of Internet cafes and everyone knew everyone in the city
For one thing, people worked at their workplaces, whether those were offices, retailers, restaurants, construction sites. Throughout the day, we interacted with colleagues, took coffee and lunch breaks.
Sometimes after work, people sometimes went to the gym, happy hours, dinners, to visit parents or siblings. Sometimes you just wanted to get home to read or watch TV. Like today, people would walk, cycle, stop into a shop that looked interesting or read at a park more often.
Social events were advertised in local newspapers, some of which were free an more focused on social events, signs and flyers, word of mouth or on a regular schedule.
London in the 80s-90s. There were different publications that announced events. There were posters on the streets doing the same. There were land line phones and phone boxes. People in work might go to particular pubs, friends to others – or you might just do a tour of regular spots to see who’s about. It would be common to tell the barman or others where you were going so they’d tell friends who might be looking for you later. It worked fine, even before everyone got mobile phones in the late 90s. Easy to meet nice people. Good times.
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