Question: back before the internet, what did one do when they had nothing to do at work? Read a book? File? Tiddlywinks?

How did people survive back then?

Today at the temp job I'd say I that in the seven hours I was work, I actually did something for about an hour and a half of it. No, not because I was slacking but because there was absolutely nothing to do. I was so bored I ran out of Web sites to read by 11. And yeah, I managed to squeek by through clicking on Slate every ten minutes or my e-mail. I even had to check out Craig's List Rants & Raves, the crack of Web surfing. And all I could think about was that no matter how bored I was, at least I could surf the Web.