Life without the Internet...

py2006

...would you survive?

No facebook, boards, email, youtube, access to info, online chatting etc etc.

You would have to listen to a radio or watch the news on telly to get the latest. You may have to wait till the next day to buy a newspaper.

You would actually have to use a pen and paper (remember them) to send a letter. You would have to walk to a shop, purchase a stamp then walk to a post box and wait a week or so for a response in your letterbox.

Your mobile phone, at best would send a text and make a call and thats it.

How would you survive? What would you do without it?

FatherLen

you forgot porn...

frozenfrozen

Everyone could start using fax.. how bloody cool would that be?!

funk-you

Just fine. Most of us here still remember knocking into our mates to see if they were coming out.

-Funk

El Weirdo

py2006 wrote: »

You would have to walk to a shop, purchase a stamp then walk to a post box and wait a week or so for a response in your letterbox.

Why wouldn't you just drive? And to be fair, I don't think the post service was that bad - you could conceivably have a response in 2/3 days

Stiffler2

Just buy a few cans and hop into the nearest bush like the old days.


good times...

Standard Toaster

I’d be really poor. I make a lot of money off my websites.

Wossack

wouldnt survive

went feral last time the net went out

and that was just for 2 hours

krudler

I deal with people at work all the time who have no internet, no laser cards, pay for things with cheques etc. I couldnt manage it, why are people so afraid of technology? It makes life so much better. I can go without it on holidays and the like where its nice to be offline for a few weeks but if it was a permanent thing I'd crack up, having to go INTO the bank? fcuk that!

Born to Die

funk-you wrote: »

Just fine. Most of us here still remember knocking into our mates to see if they were coming out.

-Funk

It would be nice to actually be physically in their company. A few of my friends have become virtual. They can fcuk off.

kjl

It means I would have to work from the office, no thank you.

Bipolar Joe

I prefer the Internet to the real world.

marketty

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Everyone could start using fax.. how bloody cool would that be?!

Fax machines are still pretty damn impressive when you think about it

Wobbuffet

You'd have no way of finding out what other tv show you have seen that vaguely familiar actor in.

kylith

I did it before, so I could do it again. Mind you, I drank a lot more in those days...

Agricola

Nope. It would be incredibly hard. I remember phoning friends landlines to see if they were going out. Remember phoning the cinema to find out what was on and when. Writing letters. Using travel agents. Landing in places where you didnt already know what the area looked like because it was before google maps. Having no access to good quality free porn.....

Life was really shít back in the mists of the early 90s.

Standard Toaster

Aertel would save us.

Brendog

I'd survive for a while.

Eventually kill myself from the frustraition of knowing the person who sings a song but not being able to think of their name and can't google it.

summerskin

Agricola wrote: »

Nope. It would be incredibly hard. I remember phoning friends landlines to see if they were going out. Remember phoning the cinema to find out what was on and when. Writing letters. Using travel agents. Landing in places where you didnt already know what the area looked like because it was before google maps. Having no access to good quality free porn.....

Life was really shít back much better in the mists of the early 90s.

FYP.

I miss those days, people used to actually turn up on time at an arranged pub rather than just texting you three hours later to ask where you were.

Also we wouldn't need to see the pics of the "girlies" being "mad" on their nights out on FB. Back in the early 90s we'd have just shagged them and then do it again a few months later when drunk. No trouble with them adding you as a friend or any other such shiite.

As for good porn, depended where you looked. Used to enjoy the odd Razzle or Penthouse myself. In some ways porn was better when it left something to the imagination, now it all looks like a gynaecology exam followed by half a tub of yoghurt thrown over their faces.

Give me Readers Wives and a box of tissues anyday.

DitzyPoo92

If the internet never existed, then you wouldn't know otherwise. You wouldn't know what life was like with the internet if it was never invented so it wouldn't really make a difference.

Trix

i would get by just fine without it. i don't own a laptop, or phone that has internet access. neither does my boyfriend so we're an internet and computer free house. i have the internet in work which i use if i really need to do something but i wouldn't really be bothered if the internet "died" tomorrow.

mark17j

Wouldn't bother me, my comp broke last year, had to do without the net for a few months, didn't miss it to be honest...

JerryHandbag

Life without the internet, ah yes....those days not so long ago when I was on Three "Broadband"

trooney

I don't have the internet. Never had any use for it.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I think i'd survive just fine without it, at least i'd have more time to watch the multitude of films/programmes i have recorded on Sky+ and never get round to watching!

NiallFH

I could find other things to do, can't say I would enjoy them as much though, I have other hobbies so could do more of them and watch TV as I dont really at the minute bar a couple of shows

funk-you

funk-you wrote: »

Just fine. Most of us here still remember knocking into our mates to see if they were coming out.

-Funk

I just read that as some test to see if your friends were gay.

Run_to_da_hills

FBI's cutting off internet to DNS Changer infected users on July 9

Likely story, I would guess this only a test run for a more sinister development.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2134853/Internet-blackout-set-9-July-FBI-pull-plug-350-000-virus-infected-machines.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

wonton

I'd probably start going to bed a lot earlier for one

Pegasus Galactica

hahaha for some reason this made me think about the old Dial up sound..... and you could only go online for a while because someone needed to make a phone call!!! haha! I would hate to go back to those days, I cant even go for a walk without my ipod... Technology rocks!

OneArt

First two years after I moved out I had no Internet in my apartments. I can live without it.

I work online from home now, however. So if I didn't have it I'd either be homeless or have to get a job where I have to talk to people *shudder*

Pegasus Galactica

Deleted User wrote: »

I just read that as some test to see if your friends were gay.

Awesome!

theteal

computers would once again be boring as fcuk!

hooradiation

Trix wrote: »

i would get by just fine without it. i don't own a laptop, or phone that has internet access. neither does my boyfriend so we're an internet and computer free house. i have the internet in work which i use if i really need to do something but i wouldn't really be bothered if the internet "died" tomorrow.

She said, on an Internet forum....