I'm so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.

Like, read every sentence in every story of each day's newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.

I get my county's rural, local newspaper. The stories are all relevant to my personal experience and typically quite well written. Local politics, goings on and such. It's nice to have a little piece of life in the 80s back.

I remember reading newspapers. 🙃

Me, getting the monthly issue of The Onion (America's finest news source, btw): hello

I still read the news paper.

My mom still gets my dad his newspaper daily.

I tried a few years ago but couldn't get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn't garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.

Crossword puzzles should be done on actual paper using ink, as our caveman ancestors did and as the gods intended

I still remember newspapers...

I was born in 2002, China.

I remember my dad always had newspapers... we didn't have internet... (I think I remember there being a TV, not sure how the news is run... but pehaps it wasn't on 24/7? I mean maybe we kids just hogged up the TV for kids stuff so they had to read newspapers)

I remember I think I sometimes sat on my dad's lap and I'd kinda just annoy him while he read lol... cuz I was attention seeking

I sometimes tried to read it too...

I remember sometimes I grabbed it because I was bored there are characters I didn't recognize and I wouldn't even know how to look up the definitions... cuz there was no Google Lens or that sort of thing... and its Logographic so I probably had no clue how to even look it up in a dictionary (didn't remember even having a dictionary I don't think), like you can't just down down alphabetical order like in English.

I mean for someone with no internet access, newpapers seemed interesting... like its vast amounts of info... a window to the outside world... (we weren't allowed outside much due to fears of kidnappers)

I remember more vividly when we firsr moved to NYC and dad had the 星島日報 Singtao Daily Newspaper thing... it's all in traditional chracters and it made my head hurt lol...

Also I remember there are like free 大紀元 (The Epoch Times) stuff lying around that are free...

When I was a kid I didn't know much about the world, but my dad was like "Oh these are the 'Anti-China' newspapers made by the Falun Gung Cult", but he grabbed them anyways since they were free, and for a while I sort of viewed those as like "evil newspaper" that is "tainted"... lol...

Nowadays they just doomscroll WeChat for news...

That smell and sound a newspaper makes when you do the traditional *thwap when you first open it. Not many experiences like it in the world.

People these days say tablet kids and instagram parents are insufferable… but like, we had to read the back of the newspaper you were hiding behind at breakfast while screaming something about Jimmy Carter being a soft bitch.

Those were the days. Also, remember when we got catalogs in the mail?

I'm so old, I remember using newspaper to wipe in the outhouse. Also Sears catalogue. Worst toilet paper ever. It didn't clean anything, just moved stuff around.

no one ever did that.

I guess OP meant in every article they found interesting. I also have never seen anyone read absolutely the whole newspaper every time. Just imagine going over every article on every section

Brosef, I remember when I used to read the newspaper. The $1.25 to get the Sunday paper at the 7-11 because ain't no way I would scrounge and spend 5 quarters in the machine. That's for laundry money!

It was 50% garbage in the 90s and quickly spiraled out of control as the internet grew in popularity.

This right here. I remember when finding an error in the paper was like finding a four-leaf clover, now it's more like finding an article without an error is that rare!

Newspapers were still pretty popular in many places up to early 2010s. Some people still read them today.

Read the funnies every day.

My first job was delivering them.

What's interesting is how everything merged into the same thing online. For example, ABC News is the news division of the TV network ABC. USA Today is a newspaper. KTLA is a radio station. All those websites look pretty similar today. They all have text-only stories like a newspaper. They all have video stories.

You'd think maybe TV stations would say "we're not going to do text-only stories" or newspapers would say "we're not going to do video". I wonder if we're ever going to get to a time when there is a distinction between them again.

Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

You are lucky tbh. So many "local" newspapers are owned by giant corporations. Here in Canada we even have a boatload that are owned by those same American corporations. I helps push narratives among people who are more likely to be isolated or disenfranchised and it works really well.

You don't take the Sears catalogue into the outhouse for the paper, you take it for the lingerie section. If you need a book of good wiping paper you take the Farmers Almanac

I'm so old I remember reading the ingredients on the shampoo bottle because my brother took the bathroom joke book with him after pooping.

I'm so old I remember grabbing The Onion from the free dispenser outside my apartment building.

I'm so old I get a PSA test annually and need to schedule a colonoscopy

I do regret not ordering the matching embroidered "Face" and "Ass" towels from an ad in The Onion when I had a chance.

Me too, pay $175 for a yearly subscription and read it at dinner everyday. My kids read the comics, and my wife does the crosswords. I’ve found tons of interesting things about local news, even some obits, that I never would have found online. Well worth the cost.

im old enough for my parents to be sending me to go get the paper and sometimes I would be at a friends when their parents wanted them to and went with on the trip.

There is an old guy at the deli near me that reads the paper with his coffee.

I also remember being asked to write about current events in school and had to turn to the newspaper to find something current.

I used to get so mad at my grandparents for calling them that. They were COMICS, and it was Very Important to call them by the proper name.

I like to think I've loosened up a bit since I was a kid.

Yeah, but we're so much luckier today with options online. I remember there were definitely tiers of the comics and I read them in a particular order, from the crappy soap-opera one that wasn't funny through (oh I'm gonna piss people off now) the also-crappy ones like Family Circus and Marmaduke and... was it called Love Is? They were always so hokey… then saving ones like Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes for last :)

I did the same thing with food which is why I'm still fat. :(

The occasional ETAOIN SHRDLU :)

My mom worked for a small paper as a linotype operator around the late 60s to early 70s. :)

When I was in high school they still delivered newspapers to machines near bus stops. Sometimes I would drop a quarter in to get one so I had something to read on the bus. It was mostly for comics, sports, and current events. When I was done I would leave it on the bus or drop it off in the hallway at school.

Gone are those days.

in the 2000s i was reading it up until the first cellphone(smartphone) came into market.

I'm so old I remember being young.

Used to remember reading the comic strips in the funday times.

As I got older I used to read the Hexham Courant to see who'd been arrested I used to go to school with

So he could tie one to his belt, as was the style at the time.

We still get a "local rag" that we peruse every Sunday morning. Oh no, John Meyer has died and the Hauptstraße is closed again.

People still read the newspaper at the bakery cafe (they take the Badische Zeitung).

I started reading the Funnies when I was a kid, added sports, around 10, then the entertainment pages when I got old enough to go to the movies with friends around 13, then eventually started reading the boring stuff.

I'm so old, I was long an adult before people started not reading the newspaper. I subscribed to the newspaper, and it was delivered to my house by a kid on a bicycle. I found my wife through a personal ad in a newspaper, a wife I've been divorced from for 16 years, now. I got all but my most recent job through want ads in the newspaper.

Y'all aren't old for just remembering when other people read the newspaper. Y'all aren't old at all.

I'm so old, I worried about getting shingles, and was greatly relieved when I got my second shot.

Get your shingles shots, old folks, or one day you're going to catch it, and you will REGRET not getting that vaccine.

Gawd, I HATE onions, but I have observed that many humans love them so much, that I believe a coin-operated Onion dispenser would be a huge success.

But like I said, I DESPISE onions, so my understanding of the human adoration for Onions may be poorly calibrated.

Kids today don't know about weekly, local, free, almost-always leftist, alternative press papers.

Y’all aren’t old at all.

We are old, you are ancient! 😄

I remember asking to borrow my parents’ newspaper so I could use my silly putty to make copies of pictures.

Also reading comics, and reusing the newspaper so I could make papier mâche (or other crafts) out of it. I learned to weave by using strips of newspaper to make a mat.

Our "Der Sonntag" is owned by Badische Zeitung which is owned by Poppen & Ortmann, a company in Freiburg. No US owner.

The adverts in online news media are wayyyyy worse, though.

I'm young (mid 20s) but I've started reading my local newspaper. I've been trying to live a slower life and I'm cutting out social media. I even limit lemmy to 30 minutes a day.

I'm eking out into oldness. Don't remind me.

Twice daily

I delivered newspapers for people to read (shit, slave wage job btw, even for a kid)