Every generation has had numerous distractions. Before computers and video games, there was television. Before television, there was radio. Before radio, well, literacy wasn't even the norm. There are even less technological means of distractions. There were games of all forms: outdoors and indoors.

While it is true that there are more distractions today, it is only because the number of distractions had been cumulative. On the other hand, a lot of the old distractions have fallen by the wayside simply because they don't seem as appealing anymore. Think of things like card and board games: people can still play them (and still do play them), but they lack the appeal that they used to have. The same goes for things like sports: people can and do still play them, but they don't seem to be as popular these days (to play, watching them seems to be more popular than ever).

It is easy to notice what we have changed into. Sometimes it's easy to forget what we have changed from.