Well, I personally wouldn't have a social life. I'd just read books, located by card catalogue (anyone remember those?).
Who said ham radio was for geezers? It's popular here and people take training and do exercises to prepare for emergency communcations in disasters. Electricity generated from lemon juice and all that. Not my thing, though. Too talky.
Before the internet, can anyone remember this?: pen pals. People used to advertise in magazines for pen pals from other parts of the world. You'd write each other and learn about other countries/cultures from each other. Seems kind of antiquated, now.
Letter writing in general, too. I think I kept up more with my relatives before the internet than I do now. (Mind you, we got tired of each other.) Letter writing allows you time off between communications (while it gets lost in the mail, then on the other person's desk) so there's no pressure to keep talking non stop like with email or phone. You can just drift along. I letter write with one aunt who doesn't do internet (too old, too not interested).
