It looks like a fair bit of it was TV-watching, which is now being displaced.
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About the only time our TV gets turned on anymore is for 1) videogames or 2) watching youtube.
It’s mostly just a giant monitor at this point
Read books, play videogames, go outside and beat each other with sticks...
BMX flatland bicycle tricks. Sometimes even rode a unicycle.
Usually I use my phone when I an sitting around waiting for something. In those times, before I had a phone, I would always think about things I could and should make, and the techniques and mechanics of how they would work.
Literally complain about it while sitting on the couch bored
Read books.
I read a bunch, and played a lot of video games. I am on the older-end of Gen z, so smartphones only became a thing when I was older, so most of my childhood was spent on computers running a mix of windows 98, Windows XP, and eventually Linux, where I got most of my books and almost all my games.
I read magazines, played videogames, watched TV, went "out and about", browsed the net, etc.
Comic books. And those weird bathroom readers.
I used to buy these little pocket-sized Sudoku books that I'd keep with me, usually play a puzzle or two while commuting to work or something.
Child me draws.
Adult me thinks.
You know why we lack philosophy now
I think I used to eat mud when I was bored.
I used to draw anytime there wasn't something to do, which was most of the time. Now it's my job
Pokemon on Gameboy. Physical books and comics. Sketching.
Shampoo bottles while pooping.
Music, books and TV.
No one has mentioned magazines or newspapers yet.
Cross-section books.
Dream about the day we could install Windows on our cell phones and carry our computers with us everywhere. And play snake on our dumb phones.
Drugs.
I watched a lot of TV and browsed the Internet on my desktop. Now I can just do these things while I'm on the go lol although I still do it just the same at home too
Listen the ringtones and play games I have on my Nokia cell phone
Before smartphones we had snake and Tetris on non smart phones and we liked it. Before that books and news papers were popular.
Having sex. Maybe.
Don't judge me, it's all about statistics.