What did employees do before the internet?

[Beezos]

I work Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. I would say i spend 7 of 8 hrs a day on the internet, whether it be checking email, surfing the web or using IM, and I still manage to do my job somewhat efficiently. I'm sure people who are more productive than I spend maybe 30-50% of their time online and still get the job done well. I know if I had the internet taken away from me at work, I would go postal and kill everyone in the office, then take my own life. My question is how did people survive pre-internet?

Right now I venturing a guess that there was lots of daydreaming, coupled with making paper airplanes, rubberband balls, and paper clip sculptures...