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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:08 am Post subject: What did you do in Korea before internet?? |
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| I read a lot more, and I also went out a lot more. Sent more BP messages, too. Watched lots of AFKN TV over the air, and rented lots of video tapes... |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| dvd bangs with date, Stood in line trying to return BP calls, word of mouth, people face to face to learn just about everything in Korea. Went out a lot more. Definitely read more books and magazines. Spent a lot of time at Kyobo and other bookstores. Rarely at home. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| When did the internet come out mid to late 90's? Wow, you folks have been here for a long time. Ha ha. |
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TDC troll
Joined: 03 Feb 2009
Location: TDC
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:58 am Post subject: |
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I was out almost every night , back in those days .
Also read a lot more books , or at least National Geo mags , from
Kyobo .
Ok , who remembers the Internet Cafe , in the alley by Kyobo?
People would come there straight after landing at Kimpo .
Does anyone remember an internet cafe in Hyewha Dong ?
Anyone remember 1000 won 500cc , or even 750 won 500cc ? |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| When did the internet come out mid to late 90's? Wow, you folks have been here for a long time. Ha ha. |
In '95 when I first got here, there was dial-up, but very few people had computers. I knew one person that had a computer. Most people that wanted to use e-mail went to one of 2 internet cafe's in the entire city of Seoul. I used the one that the guy above me is talking about behind Kyobo. I think that was the very first internet café in the city (That I knew of) Later on, internet cafes became more popular and we saw an explosion of them right before I left in '98. I used a couple in Kangnam area back in '96-98.
I remember watching a fight explode between a hippy girl that had to answer a Beeper call and lost her seat at the PC, she went off on the the girl that took her place, the K-guy was all bent out of shape because the hippy chick just left w/out saying anything. Funny, we had more patience back then.
There was usually a line of 20 people waiting to use a PC to send a couple of emails. Never saw one person browse anything but e-mail. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:31 am Post subject: |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:03 am Post subject: |
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I remember the net cafe in the alley near Kyobo, used to have to wait hours just use pine, it didn't even have netscape installed
back then you bought out Kyobo for books, spending 100-200k in a visit was easy. Also had the folks video tape US tv shows and send over the cassettes. Finally relied on short wave radio for English news because we lived down near Daejeon and couldn't even get AFKN (as it was called then) radio |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| dvd bangs with date, Stood in line trying to return BP calls, word of mouth, people face to face to learn just about everything in Korea. Went out a lot more. Definitely read more books and magazines. Spent a lot of time at Kyobo and other bookstores. Rarely at home. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:39 am Post subject: |
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I was out drinking like a fish and getting lucky almost every night.  |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Stan Rogers wrote: |
| I was out drinking like a fish and getting lucky almost every night. |
Because you're an alpha and hung like a pony. |
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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I remember the cheap beer and the internet cafe near Kyobo too. Chris and his sister, from Seattle or Portland, ran it. And email (Hotmail) was just about all there was on the internet back then; very few web sites, no blogs.. |
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El Bandito
Joined: 07 Oct 2013
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Wow. It's really cool to read about all this stuff. I got here in 2003, but at my first job all the teachers had been here before the IMF situation and the stuff they used to talk about back then blew me away. Nothing like Korea today
What did people do before they used beepers to communicate? |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| El Bandito wrote: |
Wow. It's really cool to read about all this stuff. I got here in 2003, but at my first job all the teachers had been here before the IMF situation and the stuff they used to talk about back then blew me away. Nothing like Korea today
What did people do before they used beepers to communicate? |
Public phones and home phones.
However, Cell phones were out in 1997-1998 and were becoming popular. |
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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| yes, we had home phones in 96-97 (cost about $30 to call the US for 3 minutes - via an international operator; and I got a beeper (and pay phone card) in 97 and a cell phone in 98... |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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Hiking, dating, meeting people, play basketball, martial arts, travel photography, writing, reading lots of books
with internet I still do most of those things except dating since I am married, do not play basketball much anymore
Love the internet, but life did not begin with it. |
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