What would you do if the internet Died forever?
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Aaaah yes, life before the internet...
When i used to go outside every day with my sister and we'd play with our next door neighbours... Tracking aliens or ghosts...Play-acting "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Silver Hawks", "Thunder Cats"...
Having epic games of Lazer Tag with my buddies that would span our entire town.. (These were, like, Day long affairs as we would break off into teams, one would be the hunted, the other the hunters. We had walkie talkies and everything.)
Life before the internet was pretty darned awesome, though i remember that day when my dad brought home the 14.4 modem from work, and that night my buddy and i ventured online and immediately went for the first chat room we could find to hit on women and pick fights with guys...
When i used to go outside every day with my sister and we'd play with our next door neighbours... Tracking aliens or ghosts...Play-acting "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Silver Hawks", "Thunder Cats"...
Having epic games of Lazer Tag with my buddies that would span our entire town.. (These were, like, Day long affairs as we would break off into teams, one would be the hunted, the other the hunters. We had walkie talkies and everything.)
Life before the internet was pretty darned awesome, though i remember that day when my dad brought home the 14.4 modem from work, and that night my buddy and i ventured online and immediately went for the first chat room we could find to hit on women and pick fights with guys...
I guess I'd be shocked... then I'd try to adjust to life without it. Actually I'm not sure how I would go without the internet, I'm on it whenever I'm home, with this site and Facebook permanently open in the background whilst I study or do something else. It's comforting to have them there... I think I'd be lost without the internet, I've come to rely on it so much for a large part of my life...
Watch the world collapse. The internet is more than a few social networking sites, porn, and Google. It carries stock exchange, political movements, money transfers, hundreds of thousands of jobs, purchases, entertainment, news, communication, and so on. Taking that away would be nigh apocalyptic in the current situation when so much relies on near-instant information transfer. There'd also be a massive loss in the artist and education fields as a resource and expressive medium disappeared.
Personally it'd mean the loss of a whole lot of friendships and an awful lot more boredom. I would dearly miss many people I've met online and I only have ways to contact a few of that number sans internet. It's the most expansive social medium invented yet.
Personally it'd mean the loss of a whole lot of friendships and an awful lot more boredom. I would dearly miss many people I've met online and I only have ways to contact a few of that number sans internet. It's the most expansive social medium invented yet.
TBH I find it difficult to imagine, probably because I'd go absolutely insane and probably kill myself...
not really, I'd probably be kind of insane for about a year trying to fix it, then get over it
not really, I'd probably be kind of insane for about a year trying to fix it, then get over it
Go outside... wait... it's kinda cold now... wait for summer and go outside, and until then, call my friends to meet up with them...
It's so easy to research and order things on the net (and cheaper) so it'd make my life a hundred times harder if it just ended like that.
Hell it's hard enough ordering parts for my bike on the net let alone having to find specialists to do all the work.
Also, I don't watch TV, rather I read the online papers and watch Journeyman Pictures on the net for my news. I'd probably never watch moving pictures again.
Hell it's hard enough ordering parts for my bike on the net let alone having to find specialists to do all the work.
Also, I don't watch TV, rather I read the online papers and watch Journeyman Pictures on the net for my news. I'd probably never watch moving pictures again.
Yeah. Without the internet I'd probably spend my life learning D&D like a mad man.Woem said:
Or I'd kill myself.
