If someone turned the internet off

The biggest impact for me personally would be that my work/life balance would take a hammering. Long nights in the office would become the norm, rather than being able to pack up when I have no more face-to-face meetings booked and logging back on from home.
And we'd have to give serious thought to whether we could continue owning a dog :(

There's other stuff that I'd miss too, but I could live without it.
I suppose that I'd have to join clubs to take the place of my forum time, phone friends rather than EMail them and actually go out and buy a newspaper or wait for the news to come on TV rather than getting it online when I want it.
 
I'd be a bit screwed as I rely on tinternet for supplying my film! I have never seen any film I shoot in a shop! Apart from that I could deal with it, though there would be a massive increase in spending on books and phone bills in phoning Mike Moore every day to see if such and such a book is available!
 
No biggie, could still edit photos and transfer music, good majority of my life was spent without it and feel much the same about mobile phones.

Due to a BT Wholesale cock up we lost the internet for ten days, can't say it mattered much although did buy a dongle thingy so my daughter could download her uni lecture notes.
 
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I would be at a loss I think. Some things I would miss others not so much. I hate it when life revolves around Facebook and the likes so that would be something I would be glad to see the back of.

I do enjoy periods of not having the internet or a computer. When I go off cycle touring for a few weeks I maybe only use a computer once a week max and I enjoy it that way for a while. Let's be honest computers and the internet are great but they can make us very very angry at times.
 
I was quite happy using BBS's & Fidonet before the Internet and if the internet went tomorrow I would just get on with life and no doubt find other means to waste my time away. I've spend far too much precious life time sat in front of one screen or another so losing it might be a blessing TBH.
 
If there was no Internet what would the Keyboard Warriors & Forum Trolls do for entertainment ?

If there was no OOF would they go outside ?



;)
 
I'd read the books I've had on my shelves for years and keep meaning to pick up.
 
I'd go insane.

Having access to the web is a huge part of my life - it's weird because I grew up in the days before the www, but now I can't live without it. One of the main reasons why I detest long haul flights is because I am disconnected from communication for an extended period of time - I can't handle it. Internet access is like having the world at your fingertips, in many ways. I have to know what's going on in the world at all times - I'm constantly checking the news, in particular, because I need to know what's happening.

And it's not like I spend all my time on the web. But having it available makes me feel at ease.

I think the fact that I live on the other side of the planet from my entire family also makes internet access more important.
 
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One of the main reasons why I detest long haul flights is because I am disconnected from communication for an extended period of time - I can't handle it.
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Seriously? What happens when you go on holiday, do you still use the internet all the time?
 
Not all the time. Like I said, I want to be able to have it if I want. Although I do tend to run up high phone bills when travelling, from roaming and web charges. Stuff like googlemaps, Facebook and email can rack up a pretty hefty charge after a few days.
 
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Not all the time. Like I said, I want to be able to have it if I want. Although I do tend to run up high phone bills when travelling, from roaming and web charges. Stuff like googlemaps, Facebook and email can rack up a pretty hefty charge after a few days.
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£383 from a 10 day holiday this year :lol::lol::lol:
 
As someone who lived the first thirty years or so of life without the Internet and about the same time with it there is no way I would want to go back to pre-Internet days.

It has revolutionised our lives and I am glad I was around at the right time to see it develop.

I'd have to go shopping again for loads of stuff that I simply look online decide what I want and click away.

In the early days of the net I once ordered some software from a company in California. As this was still in the days of dial up it had to be sent as a CD. It was when it arrived that the impact of the Net suddenly hit me; via the Net I was able to contact somewhere that I would never of otherwise known about and probably could not have known about. The access and information available is amazing.

Yes, there are bad things about the Net or rather, as has been the case since time immemorial, there are bad people.

If we look after our security and remember

that we did not win the lottery we did not enter,

someone who you do not know but, nevertheless, addresses an email with "My Good Friend", is not really going to give you £xm, and

if it looks dodgy it probably is

then we should be OK.


Dave
 
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