What was it like before the internet?
 

I can only imagine what it was like running an offshore before the net. Before GPS.... Nobody really knew how fast they were going...... Seems like it would be more fun. Hearing about a fast boat few towns away ..... Loading up and going to find him. I can't imagine I would know 1/10 of the stuff I do without this site. The shootout must have been so much more fun....not knowing near as much about who was going to be there or what they were running under the hatches. Without the internet I highly doubt I would have made the trip down to KY to run at lake Cumberland. Heck now that I think about it I bet I would not have my boat... I found it in Iowa on Craigslist with some help from this site. I would prob be in a Baja because there is a dealer less than 15mi away and that's all I saw as a kid. So gramps... Sit all us youngsters down and tell us story's of what this sport was before this hot new "fad" they call the internet...... We should all thank Al Gore for inventing it.

lol, I hafta laugh. I remember when I had a pager not a cell phone and I could remember phone numbers. now forget it, I barely remember my own. gps I dont use much on the boat, grew up on lake Erie here and dont need it but for getting around on the road thats another thing like the phone numbers. Use to be able to drive to any place in the country with the vaguest of directions and road atlas (anyone still even have one of those?) I could memorize nearly an entire trip, all the route changes everything. nowadays? . . . . . recalculating . . . recalculating . . . . recalculating lol


in the 90's I swore I would never have a computer. I grew up in the 70's/80's and my brother was the Bill Gates Steve Jobs type and always had these nerdy things lol. Still not sure if they are the best thing or the worst :D I will say one thing I have met a lot of great people through this thing.

Tell me you had a bag phone on your boat. You would think that late 80's cigs would have phones built into them......nothing prob cooler in 1987 than calling all the girls from your 38 top gun or your "hook up". Then going to all the hot clubs in Miami.

oh yea. . . . I had the full three watt bag phone. jezsus who even remembers when phones came in different watt ranges and the bigger ones were an actual health risk lol. they use to have antennas to. Funny thing I picked up a cool barn find a couple years ago, a 92 Eddie Bauer Ford Bronco one owner truck that had not seen the light of day since about 02, it has a permantly mounted cell phone with the box under the seat. I drive the truck daily but left it in there just for the heck of it :D

thanks al gore!

I'm 32 so I can remember when people were sporting bag phones. I'm a little young for the Miami Vice thing...... The scarab that stole my heart was yellow had outboards and Pam Anderson hanging off the side of it....... Seemed like she was always cold.............

52 (so not yet a gramps) and grew up without any of it. The first game was pong on a commador 64, then pacman (do you youngsters even know what these are??).
Back then, we used to actually get out of the house and do things for fun. I still remember my first bill from my bag phone, i had to rip it out becuase I couldn't afford to pay it. Now all I do is sit at my computer and look at boat porn all day.

Oh yeah, those were the days. Throwing the the ole Panasonic phone over my shoulder and heading out to spend the day on the Formula during the work days making "business calls"!!

Miss that ole phone..

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Cheers,

Dave

I got one of them. I found it the other day while getting extensions cords for the Xmas lights.

Too funny!! I too think I may still have mine somewhere along with 2 "car kits"...

1987 was a good year, a shiny new Formula and new wife...1st of 3.. :-)

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Cheers,

Dave