Would you consider it odd if someone didnt have the internet at home?

Kaneda_

If someone told you they didnt have a TV at home, people might be a small bit suprised.


Is the same true with the Internet?

Mickeroo

Kaneda_ wrote: »

If someone told you they didnt have a TV at home, people might be a small bit suprised.


Is the same true with the Internet?

Not really. Know loads of people who don't.

Atlantic Dawn

Anyone under 30 not having it I would be suprised, anyone over would be understandable that they may not need it.

Where To

Whats the internet?

hatrickpatrick

I'd have a lot of respect for that actually, it has a lot of appeal. Great escape of sorts.

CathalDublin

The Internet will never catch on!

Fremen

I deliberately lived without it for just under a year. It's not a bad way to live, actually. You get more real stuff done.

I'd just assume they had a stack of magazines stashed under the bed.

moonflower

I know a lot more people who don't have a tv than people who don't have the internet.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me they had no internet in their house, but I would be surprised if someone had no internet access at all.

WindSock

I don't have it but use my phone, or go to my ma's if I have to.

mikemac

where do i go from here wrote: »

Whats the internet?

Al Gore invented it

Einhard

I'd be surprised if someone was posting here and didn't have the internet!

YouTookMyName

A computer without the internet is like a kitchen without a woman.

Little Acorn

Not hugely surprised no. Some people are just scraping by with their rent, bills and food, so it might just be an extra that they can do without. Other people might just not use it that much, and go to internet cafes, or use free college/library internet if they really need to use it for something.

teddy b123

Little Acorn wrote: »

Not hugely surprised no. Some people are just scraping by with their rent, bills and food, so it might just be an extra that they can do without. Other people might just not use it that much, and go to internet cafes, or use free college/library internet if they really need to use it for something.

I'd do without electricity before I do away with the internet.
oh wait...

emeraldstar

I didn't for all of last year. It sucked.

Edit: I read a LOT of books last year.

briany

It's no coincidence that the number of computers in households skyrocketed throughout the 90s as the web became more mainstream and it seems that home computers are largely redundant without internet access. You can still write novels on them and play games, and look at Encarta but you can't just fire off the first draft to your publisher with e-mail, download the V1.2 graphical fix or be able to realize how limited Encarta is/was. We'd have to use the actual post, wait for a CD on the front cover of PC gamer and watch, in wonder, a low res video explaining just what is soccer.

Nah.

Not everyone I know has the internet, but everyone I know with a computer does have it.

lecker Hendl

I moved out of my last apartment as there was no internet and I couldn't put up with the awful speed of my meteor dongle. I moved into a new place without seeing the room, but knowing they had a great connection.

I needs my internet.



*the room is grand, as is the house. Internet is flying it.

Local-womanizer

I know people that don't have it, mainly because they can't get it in their area.

noxqs

I don't have a TV. Imagine the surprise on the TV license inspectors face after he had literally been hiding behind my bin to jump me one day (after countless letters).

Haha.

Anyways - not having internet is a bit like being a leper these days. It's rare and when it does occur it pretty weird.

ProudDUB

Can see people of my mammy's generation (she is 74) not having the interweb (or even a mobile phone) and being totally ok with it. Would not find that odd at all, especially if they do not have any kids at home. 27 year old niece just moved out of the family home and into a shared pad with her best friend. No internet at the house. She is not all that bothered by it. If she wants to book a plane ticket, or do some online shopping etc, she either does it at work or goes back to her parents house.

Kaneda_

noxqs wrote: »

I don't have a TV. Imagine the surprise on the TV license inspectors face after he had literally been hiding behind my bin to jump me one day (after countless letters).

Haha.

Anyways - not having internet is a bit like being a leper these days. It's rare and when it does occur it pretty weird.

Do you not have a TV as you dont enjoy it? Im just curious as to why!

Tubsandtiles

I was in college with a nice lad that never had internet and was doing a programming course, losing it for month would drive me nuts

Statistician

Little Acorn wrote: »

Not hugely surprised no. Some people are just scraping by with their rent, bills and food, so it might just be an extra that they can do without. Other people might just not use it that much, and go to internet cafes, or use free college/library internet if they really need to use it for something.

Most major purchases I buy off the internet, generally saving a fortune. I save more money by having internet access.

I too don't have a TV. Haven't had one for years because it's crap. I watch DVDs (mostly films) instead.

noxqs

Do you not have a TV as you dont enjoy it? Im just curious as to why!

If I want to watch it, I can download it. The internet is far superior to TV.

Besides - If there was anything I'd like to watch on TV its at a time I can't choose myself and it has annoying ads. The internet flows with milk and honey, by which I mean ad free pirate copies of anything I'd like.

I would pay but when I try they say 'This service not available in Ireland'.. Well the pirates don't discriminate.

Cantona's Collars

I've met a few people who own new laptops but have no internet connection as they "wouldn't use it".These aren't old people either.
What's the point in spending hundreds on a machine to just play solotaire on??

lecker Hendl

noxqs wrote: »

If I want to watch it, I can download it. The internet is far superior to TV.

Besides - If there was anything I'd like to watch on TV its at a time I can't choose myself and it has annoying ads. The internet flows with milk and honey, by which I mean ad free pirate copies of anything I'd like.

I would pay but when I try they say 'This service not available in Ireland'.. Well the pirates don't discriminate.

Can't fair city online tbf.

Creature

Jaysus I'd go insane if I didn't have the internet at home, though going by the quality of the service sometimes I might as well not have it at all. TV on the other hand, I couldn't give a toss about.

starlit

No not really not everyone is into the internet and latest technology, some people might not even have a computer and not know how to use it even though the vast majority of us do know how to use a computer and most of use have one! I wouldn't find it odd them not having the internet some people don't bother with that sort of thing or can't afford it or don't think its necessary and only use it outside the home. I would find it more odd if someone didn't have a computer/laptop rather than the internet though!

starlit

We do forget that we can do more things with the computer than go online like!? Some people think life with the computer should be life with internet such as life without the internet you forget that the computer works too! You shouldn't forget and be too dependent on the internet even though a lot of us are for a lot of things...there is life outside the internetz!

bryaner

I'm out of work, scrapped sky another add ons but I'm still holding the internet for as long as I can, just too much to lose as well as job hunting..

Cú Giobach

According to this 3,042,600 people here used the interweb last year, this probably includes people who use it at work or in a cafe and don't have it at home, so it's not really odd for people not to have it.
In fact using these figures if you consider it "odd" for someone not to have it, then you should also consider the number of people with a Dublin accent as a bit of an anomaly in Ireland as a whole

MitchKoobski

At the moment, no.
In a year or two, yes.

I'd consider it odd if they didn't have broadband OR a tv, but plenty of people just have one or the other. Majority of people with a good broadband connection these days just download their tv shows or watch them online.

OneArt

When I first moved away from home I lived without TV and Internet, mainly because Irish TV is sh!te and I just got DVDs/used a hard drive. Internet never happened because the companies said we weren't staying in our apartment long enough. It was grand because I used the college Internet though.

Have both TV and Internet in my new apartment... It's a flatshare and for me the TV's a bit redundant because everything's in German. I know I should be trying to improve my language skills but when I come home from work I want to watch something in a language I don't have to concentrate on, I spend all day at work speaking German anyway!

Frank Black

If they were young enough to use it and affluent enough to afford it then I'd consider it pretty odd if someone didn't have access to the internet at home. In fact I'd think they were a bit backward.

pragmatic1

Yeah complete weirdos. Like omg.

Latchy

Kaneda_ wrote: »

If someone told you they didnt have a TV at home, people might be a small bit suprised.


Is the same true with the Internet?

No , not in the least and I dont understand this thing about not having it on your phone ,like it was some sort of social fas paux ( maybe it is with some people ) but I am over 40 .

briany

If someone told you they didnt have a TV at home, people might be a small bit suprised.


Is the same true with the Internet?

I suppose telling someone you don't/won't have a TV in the house would be much like being in a pub and telling them you're a pioneer.

"Oh..."

"Really?"

"Well good for you, man, good for you."

"You're blocking the way to the bar, narc."

Azureus

Nah, I didnt have t'inernet at home for ages! Money mainly, and Im on it all day in work so like a break.
Got it recently but just cuz was cheap as part of a package

Seachmall

I'd do away with the TV, washing machine and microwave before I got rid of the internet.

No joke.

Magic Beans

You can get the internet on computers now I hear.

Saila

drives me mad when people put they have internet on their home adds, but when you get there its the type you can hear, should just be changed to broadband yes/no, makes finding a place much easier:mad: :rolleyes: