Can you live without using the internet? (1 Viewer)

[bosoxs45]

It's hard to imagine what life was like without the internet.  Yet, we heavily rely on using it.

How would today's culture fare without the Internet, if it suddenly collapsed or 'went off-line'?

 

[Zigg]

I never use the internet.

 

[dutch]

Can I?  Sure.  Would it be painful in an inconvenient type of way?  Yep.

• I never use phone books anymore
  
• I write about a dozen checks a year as opposed to the hundred I used to write
  
• I don't have to balance a checkbook
  
• I don't buy but a few stamps a year
  
• I don't have to spend time or money to develop pictures
  
• I can keep up to date with scores of games as they happen
  
• I don't have to go to Walmart if I don't want to
  
• I can communicate with 'friends' at arms length, just the way I like it
  
• I don't have to visit blockbuster
  

Life without internet would suck but it is doable.  Slower but doable.  !st world problem for sure.

 

[Card Trader]

Would be difficult to adjust to at first but eventually it would be fine, humans adapt quickly.  I remember always reading the box scores in the papers, kinda miss that actually. (Yes I know they have box scores online in about a thousand different places)

 

[GoFishTN]

Live? Well, yes, of course. It'd make doing IT a lot harder though.

 

[Card Trader]

Live? Well, yes, of course. It'd make doing IT a lot harder though.

Yeah continuing to work for a .com would be difficult.

 

[Parrothead]

as long as the internet isn't attached to my vital organs, I think I could..

probably not- at least give me Amazon

 

[Higgs]

I had to do it for a month once.  The first few days were terrible but after that it was an amazing experience.  It was like living in a different world - so much more peaceful, and a returned focus on real people.

 

[shader]

Of course.  Anytime I want to.  I really can.  

 

[gianmarco]

No.

 

[[icon]]

Hell no. 

 

[lakerstan]

Playboy would need to go back to nudes.

 

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@Mr. Pickles, care to weigh in here? 

 

[cstu]

No.

Without the internet I could do my job (appraising) but would not want to.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Yes, but I certainly wouldn't want to.

 

[Cjw_55106]

I could be wrong, but I think some people are actually doing it! 

 

[Captain Cranks]

It's hard to imagine what life was like without the internet.  Yet, we heavily rely on using it.

How would today's culture fare without the Internet, if it suddenly collapsed or 'went off-line'?

My entire business would collapse. 

 

[coyote5]

Live? Well, yes, of course. It'd make doing IT a lot harder though.

Yeah continuing to work for a .com would be difficult.

Oh see, here I thought he capitialized "IT" as sort of a nod to the ole spanking the monkey routine.... please internet, never leave me!

 

[Frostillicus]

I had to do it for a month once.  The first few days were terrible but after that it was an amazing experience.  It was like living in a different world - so much more peaceful, and a returned focus on real people.

Sounds horrible.

 

[Capella]

Sounds horrible.

Seriously. I loathe most people. 

 

[The Commish]

I welcome it...happens the last two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August almost every year for me and there isn't a time the rest of the year I feel better than I do then.

 

[Grace Under Pressure]

I could live, but it would be infinitely harder to make a living. Can't imagine this would be good for any business.

 

[Chadstroma]

Sure.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

I could live without other people using the internet.

 

[In The Zone]

It's hard to imagine what life was like without the internet.  Yet, we heavily rely on using it.

How would today's culture fare without the Internet, if it suddenly collapsed or 'went off-line'?

Been there done that. 

 

[jon_mx]

Only if I had a gym where all the the instant gram yoga pants girls worked out. 

 

[comfortably numb]

Life without internet would suck but it is doable.  Slower but doable.  !st world problem for sure.

At this point, it may even be a 2nd world problem

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I've been using the Internet for exactly half my life. Born in 1970, started using the Internet in 1993.

 

[Brony]

I don't use the Internet in my sleep or the shower. Prolly shouldn't use it on the commute but I don't come across many chubby latinos without taking the scenic route

 

[Insein]

I ain't got an internet problem. I got a money problem. And Internet is the solution.