What did geeks do before computers existed?

I'm serious. Geek myself. But I've only been around since computers have been.

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We were messing around with vaccuum tubes and reading flash gordon comics. We were also messing around with the radio as the radio during its heyday was more popular than the internet and the bible combined.

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lusted after popular girls (someone beat me to the slide rule answer!), made their calculators read funny things, when held upside down, get beaten up...
Built model airplanes and ships in bottles.
They were train spotters - steam trains of course. Before that they were hunter/gatherers. An ancient Greek device has just been discovered with wheels and cogs which seems to be an early computing device for calculating distance to planets - though not of course poor little Pluto. Jacquard invented a punch-card system for weaving in 1805. How far do you want to go back?
read books ,research and study.
played with thier slide rules!
Phone Phreaking, which is hacking telephones. They also had the Society for Creative Anachronism, where they would dress up as medieval people and then hit each other with sticks to see who will be king and queen.
bite the heads off of live chickens at the circus or fair
Well they certainly never had weird hobbies, like football, or baseball.