Get off my cloud

Having much work to be getting on with I find myself suddenly drawn back to my old blog with desires on churning out largely nonsensical diatribes.

So to avoid writing, I am writing. And if I'm not doing this I'm posting on forums or chatting over IM or sending e-mails to people. It's not even as if I have some unfriendly, daunting essay to knock off. It's an article, on something I'm interested in, in fact on something I spend half my time posting about on forums to other people anyway.

I will do literally ANYTHING to avoid working on the features I need to write up and I'm hardly alone in being this way BUT exactly what did all the world's procrastinating writers throughout history do before the internet, the ultimate time-wasters tool?

Like the curious orange himself, I am curious about this query. It's not so much a conundrum as a marginally interesting question, but it is one that needs answering nonetheless, although most likely it never will.