Current Events > do shut in neets exist before the internet?

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or if they did, did they also exist before tvs? what did they do, just read books all day?

Yes, we just called them hermits

As for what they did....be pervs and teach children the Kamehameha

Model train enthusiasts

Watching a single episode of American Picker is proof enough that hermits have lived since forever just fine.

Who do you think built ships inside bottles?

BewmHedshot posted...

Who do you think built ships inside bottles?

Your mom

I was wondering what people did at home before radio, TV, the internet, even books. I get that most people were some sort of farmer so that kept them busy during the day, but after the sun goes down?

LeoRavus posted...

but after the sun goes down?

If you're gonna think about this, the real sticking point is probably lighting

it's only surprisingly recently that we've gotten easy access to effective indoor lighting

kirbymuncher posted...

If you're gonna think about this, the real sticking point is probably lighting

it's only surprisingly recently that we've gotten easy access to effective indoor lighting

Lamps and candles have been around for thousands of years.

LeoRavus posted...

I was wondering what people did at home before radio, TV, the internet, even books. I get that most people were some sort of farmer so that kept them busy during the day, but after the sun goes down?

Those farmers generally got up at/before sunrise, so they likely went to bed soon after the sun set

LeoRavus posted...

Lamps and candles have been around for thousands of years.

have you ever tried to do anything particularly complex by candlelight though? key word in my last post is "effective"

Yeah they do, Collyer brothers for example. Homer Collyer had an unfortunate incident and they both withdrew from society afterwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

Damn i didn't know my people existed before the internet

i need to get out of neetdom though for sure. i'm so fucking scared of public areas nowdays. idk what point in my life caused me this anxiety. i haven't had many traumatic events really outside of early childhood

i wonder if it was that head injury that caused it? when i fell down a playground and the world was spinning for a bit

It really depends on how specific you want to get with the term. If you truly just mean NEET without any further assumptions on their life, childless trophy spouses would count. The term could probably even accurately describe a significant portion of all royalty and nobility in the past.

the people that never left the cave