Well let me rephrase that, there might have been internet but I didn't have a computer, didn't know how to run a computer and I didn't want a computer.
My how times have changed!
Back then I had to dream up ways to be inventive either by something I saw in a magazine at the check out line, or the old fashioned way......word of mouth.
If my ideas were for throwing a kids party of some kind, then I also had to source out supplies for my vision.
I might not have had a computer to get those ideas from, but I did get tons of mail in the way of product catalogs.