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sKePTiKal:
Before the internet we:

played cards - Euchre & Pinochle were big games for us
board games
played music
read books - the kind that would bonk you reading yourself to sleep (War & Peace & Gulag Archipelago NOT recommended for reading in bed; the sheer weight would give one a concussion)
talked to each other and actually LISTENED
grew things, made things, watched classic TV:
  Mash
  Mission Impossible
  Man from UNCLE
  Twilight Zone
  The Prisoner (BBC production in the late 60s!!)

And politics wasn't a large part of people's mental/emotional existence - we read about it in the papers; we knew about protests - but in my case, was too young to be allowed (and not wily enough to break the rules) to participate.

We listened to music and went to concerts.

Twoapenny:
That made me laugh, Skep, I can remember more than once waking up with a start when a chunky book crashed to the floor in the middle of the night.  And staying up all night reading IT when that first came out and being wide eyed at school all the next day :) I avoid Smart gadgets, I just don't really understand them?  And none of the technology we have at home seems to work reliably anyway, or be easy to fix, so I always assume it would just be something else I end up shouting at.  I've never shouted at a book!  Lol xx

Hopalong:
And before cell phones, we:

made eye contact

sKePTiKal:
... and learned to predict what people were thinking by watching their facial expressions and body language!

Meh:
Snort, Skep,

I like that you took the question literally and answered it with very specific activities, U R funny lady...

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