Before the Internet, how did you waste time at work?

[SoapyShowerBoy]

As title really, what on earth did you do to pass those quite periods when at work?

[10 Pence Short]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

As title really, what on earth did you do to pass those quite periods when at work?

That woman from accounts.

[staceyb]

I was at school

[mat13]

tommy

[GingerWizard]

machine mart catalogs.....

Used to try and find the tool with the longest or craziest name.

"Traditional Chinese Cats Paw Remover" Was a classic, something you use when whitteling trees..... nowt todo with cats.... did look like a crow bar mind....

Gwiz

[Cara Van Man]

I spent most of my time trying to invent a computer based, world wide communications network that billions of people could swap information via. I was pipped to the post, unfortunately. So i went back to being an underpaid squaddy.

[Mc lovin]

I was also at school, although toward the end of my second school we did have net access once a week for 30mins on our schools network of Wang computers using dial up

[james_tigerwoods]

Mc lovin said:

I was also at school, although toward the end of my second school we did have net access once a week for 30mins on our schools network of Wang computers using dial up

Huh huh huh - He said Wang

[V8mate]

Mc lovin said:

I was also at school, although toward the end of my second school we did have net access once a week for 30mins on our schools network of Wang computers using dial up

Aaaah, so that's why you're such a wang-ker.

[Urban_Ninja]

drink, quite a bit, I did work in a pub mind.

[Jonny671]

This!



Well.. Nothing dodgy to do with kids, i'm one of them!

[10 Pence Short]

Jonny671 said:

This!



Well.. Nothing dodgy to do with kids, i'm one of them!

Eh? You mean you're either like Tom Hanks in Big or Gary Glitter in Vietnam.

[funkyol]

We used to ring up Blockbuster and ask about films with made up names, and get the staff to spend ages finding out about it, phoning up halfords to ask about the new 'inflatable bike', phoning up random people saying we were from BT and we needed to test their phone line - then getting them to stand 5 meters away from the handset and shout 'oranges' or something else at the top of their lungs (yes, people really did do this). Ahhh, them were the days.

[Poledriver]

Telegraph crossword

[Mexico.]

We when we could find the time slept or cleaned our arab catchers

[bazking69]

staceyb said:

I was at school

Ditto. When to pass time I mostly tried making napalm made out of styrofoam nicked out of technology and petrol smuggled in in 500ml coke bottles.

[Mc lovin]

V8mate said:

Mc lovin said:

I was also at school, although toward the end of my second school we did have net access once a week for 30mins on our schools network of Wang computers using dial up

Aaaah, so that's why you're such a wang-ker.

Oh, i see what you did there, genious.

[odyssey2200]

Solitair, Mine Sweeper, reading magazines, phoning mates....

[Getragdogleg]

smoked regularly.

long toilet breaks.

But I am self employed so its not like I was/am cheating anyone but myself.

[Russ35]

Playing a network game called Pacwars, sort of a multiplayer Pacman.