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photograph of a young black man in a black t-shirt against a black background, leaning back and gazing up, with colorful illustrated daisy-like flowers in red, yellow, and blue floating up from his headDaydream by Maximilian Imran Faleel on Flickr

I have no recollection of how I used to waste time. ojocaliente asks how we used to space out and waste time, pre-internet.

02/27/24
by taz

"And that, children, is what we did before AskMetafilter."

When I was a student in the mid-90s, there was a cubicle in one of the University ladies’ toilets that was “the problem toilet.” It was like a problem page...

Great comment by penguin pie on wowenthusiast's question about pre-internet physical bulletin boards.

03/04/23
by taz

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Photo by Roman Kraft on unsplash.com: a man in jeans sitting on an outdoor bench reading a newspaper

Please Tell Me about Pre-internet Personals Ads: "I've always been fascinated by the personal ads of the pre-internet times and I bet there are people here on Metafilter who could tell me more about what the practical experience of using them was actually like..."

02/11/23
by taz

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MetaFilter started as a community weblog in 1999, later added question and answers, then music by members, jobs, projects by members, a podcast, and finally an area dedicated to meetups.

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