So tonight I am watching The Deadly Spawn, with D and I suddenly begin to think about what people occupied their time with before the internet. What sparked this thought was a scene in the movie where this 16 year old is in his room. The era is of the early eighties, and the kid has all these space, and planetary paraphernalia all over. I think, "Why the hell does this kid have such a fixation with the universe?" Then it clicks, people didn't have the information accessible to them pre internet so hobbies were focused in on more narrowly. You collect your little analouge trinkets and post them on the walls. Posters, models, books were all are fair game. You develop this desire to learn more, and as a result your search extends. Then in the 1990's the internet blossoms and your days are no longer filled with solar system models and pictures; you now look at porn.
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Luckily there has been masturbation for at least 100 years so teenage boys have always had that activity to fall back on.
before the internet our youth had many questions with few adults that could provide answers. Hobbies allowed kids to really learn more about something they were interested in. Now kids aren't interested in any one thing, just cruising the internet and getting into trouble.
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