If the Internet didn't exist ...

IvaBigWun

What would you be doing?

Id be most likely reading a book. Do you let yourself spend too much time on the internet?

ThePower11

I'd probably have a girlfriend and having sex right now

Shane St.

watching the telebox

Superbus

I'd be asleep.

hondasam

Knitting

The King of Moo

Laughing at funny cats I passed in the street.

Frynge

Lying In bed awake wondering what the answers to all the question I can find answers to on the internet

Agent Smith

Awaiting tomorrows paper, for news of Iowa

ColeTrain

Browsing Aertel.

marco_polo

Presumeably most people would be doing the exact same the same except with a magazine .

Senna

Buying porn at extortionate prices.

Super-Rush

Watching football matches on teletext.

Kojak

Writing letters asking when my check for the foreign lotto winnings was on its way.

catallus

i'd be drinking in the dark!

Dotrel

Whatever I was doing I'd be doing it a lot faster and be a lot more focused on it.

This bit from the new Screenwipe really rang familiar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEuNw-SrMWs&t=50m30s

So much so that my new years resolution is to not have the computer/net on when I'm watching the tv or reading (or doing anything generally). I've found in can take 2 hours to watch 40 mins of television, which is just ridiculous.

Darkglasses

Wouldn't have been inspired to do as much cycling as I have...Weird really.

shannon_tek

I would be a happier person. Follow my dreams and goals. And never have to deal with people I hate from a county or country I'm no where near. I'd probably have a longer relationship

Eathrin

I'd be working on this new thing that links computers and data from all over the world

Chuck Stone

Yeah reading stuff or watching TV (at night at least).

I love the internet but I don't love feeling that I need it.

mackg

El Pistolero wrote: »

Watching football matches on teletext.

Saturday afternoons with a few cans, the betting slips and aertel hoping Cowdenbeath don't let you down so you can head out that night.

Good times.

dave3004

conversing with other earthlings (shudders)

Saila

probably dead

Jesus Wept

El Pistolero wrote: »

Watching football matches on teletext.

Thems were the days. And the awful pages with football transfer rumours that were all nonsense.

shanered

Wondering what the hell to do with these binary and hexidecimal codes, and that maybe I could store information.......
I'd be trying to invent it, thats what!
And I'd look insane!:pac:

Leeg17

Studying for a test thats tomorrow at 9.30am!

My new years resolution was to spend more time IRL, not working out too well so far

gnfnrhead

I'd be screwed when it comes to writing essays and papers. No Internet means a severe lack of information as I'm guessing there would not be an infinite amount of books in the college library on the subject.

Actually, without the Internet I probably wouldn't even be in college, I applied online having heard about the course online. I'd be sitting on the social doing nothing.

Azureus

I'd be bored in work/have a harder time doing my job without info at my fingertips, and have a pretty different job at that becomes a good bit of my job involves websites, but other than that not much difference. I probably would be smarter having absorbed more info in college rather than copy/paste/reformat jobs that a lot of my work was (ssh, dont tell anybody). Other than that, no different because as soon as I get out of the office I rarely use the internet.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Probably be achieving more, I waste far too much time on this internet thingamajig.

CardBordWindow

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stupidusername

Lying here wondering why I can't get back to sleep.but then realistically I probably wouldn't be 'here' at all if there was no internet

Frank Black

Composing a strongly worded letter to a national publication.

Cú Giobach

Similar things I was doing for the 40 odd years before I got the Internet, without thinking about not being on the Internet.

theteal

Computers would be very boring and nowhere near as plentiful.

I would have a vastly smaller film/music collection!

Plazaman

For a small fee, I'd be playing my VHS tapes of films I recorded over the telephone lines for people to record themselves.

fishy fishy

looking at microfiche at the library,

smallBiscuit

If I had no internet, then my job in it, would be gone, no need for web developers/support if no web.

ironicily, at the moment I have no internet at home, since I forgot that the phone bill wasn't direct debit and have been wondering why eircom wouldn't take their money. Now I know :-)
It's terrible, trying to browse boards or look up something from the phone, when I have an intermittent signal in the house

starlit

Either be watching tv, reading a book or listening to music, god forbid be outside....prefer the indoors!

starlit

Dotrel wrote: »

Whatever I was doing I'd be doing it a lot faster and be a lot more focused on it.

This bit from the new Screenwipe really rang familiar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEuNw-SrMWs&t=50m30s

So much so that my new years resolution is to not have the computer/net on when I'm watching the tv or reading (or doing anything generally). I've found in can take 2 hours to watch 40 mins of television, which is just ridiculous.

Sky+!?

44leto

I don't know what I use to do without it. I am relatively new to it's joys. I was connected years I just never bothered. I am shocked at how into it I am. I still haven't opened a facebook account and it is only recently I am shopping online and pirating.

I suppose I use to watch a lot of recorded TV and I read a whole lot more.

gbee

We'd be all devout Catholics flocking to Mass at every opportunity and believing things like 911.

saa

Working.

28064212

Dotrel wrote: »

So much so that my new years resolution is to not have the computer/net on when I'm watching the tv or reading (or doing anything generally). I've found in can take 2 hours to watch 40 mins of television, which is just ridiculous.

Lolwut? Learn to multitask. Thanks to the internet, I can now watch a football game on TV, an episode from a TV show on my laptop, and read a book on my Kindle all at the same time

Dotrel

28064212 wrote: »

Lolwut? Learn to multitask. Thanks to the internet, I can now watch a football game on TV, an episode from a TV show on my laptop, and read a book on my Kindle all at the same time

Thanks. However, for one thing imho multi-tasking nothing more than the process of doing many things badly at once. For another thing I'm usually reluctant to take advice from people who say "lolwut".

28064212

Dotrel wrote: »

Thanks. However, for one thing imho multi-tasking nothing more than the process of doing many things badly at once.

For some things, maybe. It's not particularly difficult to follow a TV show without laser-guided focus though

Dotrel wrote: »

For another thing I'm usually reluctant to take advice from people who say "lolwut".

See title of the thread, and wonder if I might possibly have been less than serious.

Nothingbetter2d

if the internet didn't exist we'd probably be still working on a farm or in a factory or a shop.

Ellis Dee

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

if the internet didn't exist we'd probably be still working on a farm or in a factory or a shop.

Ah yes, I remember those days, too. The good old times when people had something to spend a big part of the day doing - they were called "jobs". :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Temptamperu

Jaysus what would you do for porn :eek:

Dotrel

Temptamperu wrote: »

Jaysus what would you do for porn :eek:

Channel 4 + VCR

IvaBigWun

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Ah yes, I remember those days, too. The good old times when people had something to spent a big part of the day doing - they were called "jobs". :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Has any study been done specially for Ireland as to how many hours the average worker dosses on the internet during office hours? It has to be on average of at least an hour a day.

Son Of A Vidic

IvaBigWun wrote: »

What would you be doing?

Id be most likely reading a book. Do you let yourself spend too much time on the internet?

OP with a username like IvaBigWun and you only be reading a book? Wasted talent imo.

Brain Stroking

If the internet didnt exist i wouldnt despise my acquaintances