Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Is the Internet Overrated.

  • 18-03-2013 11:53pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭


    Has anybody hit a wall?

    Sick of it
    Goining in circles
    wasting your life
    Kim Kardashian arse
    Round and Round
    Try real Life
    Get Out
    Meet a friend
    Go the Pub
    Walk on the beach
    Eat a blackberry
    See a play
    Look at a cloud
    Then die

    :rolleyes:;):confused::eek:


«1

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    People wil eventually get bored of the internet. I will take about 25 years though :)
    Then it will be too late ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Are you mental?

    Do you want to go back to the days of writting letters, sticky porn mags stashed in a bush, actually interacting with people and leaving the house????

    You crazy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Why aren't Haemorrhoids called Assteroids?

    Riddle me that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Has anybody hit a wall

    Sick of it
    Goining in circles
    wasting your life
    Kim Kardashian arse
    Round and Round
    Try real Life
    Get Out
    Meet a friend
    Go the Pub
    Walk on the beach
    Eat a blackberry
    See a play
    Look at a cloud
    Then die

    :rolleyes:;):confused::eek:

    I did all that ****e at the weekend, especially the pub part. Leave me alone to aimlessly surf on boards, autotrader and hoganstand :cool:


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Free unlimited porn ,

    moaning minnies,

    Unlimited music

    Unlimited non porn films

    AH

    Still not bored yet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,118 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I'd rather have a **** looking at xhamster than eat a blackberry.
    Internet: 1 Real live: 0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,245 ✭✭✭amacca


    Has anybody hit a wall

    Sick of it
    Goining in circles
    wasting your life
    Kim Kardashian arse
    Round and Round
    Try real Life
    Get Out
    Meet a friend
    Go the Pub
    Walk on the beach
    Eat a blackberry
    See a play
    Look at a cloud
    Then die

    :rolleyes:;):confused::eek:

    this wasn't the exact order I had in mind.....I'm glad we can all customize the meaninglessness of our lives

    (cant wait for some jackass to post something like first world problems etc)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Cyprus been robbed thanks internet, never seen a proper daylight robbery live


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    I think that this generation is better prepared for a zombie apocalypse than an hour or two without the internet, tbh.

    Also: see the South Park episode "Overlogging".


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    No way, most of my friends live in my computer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    So Op you are bored of the internet,then come on to internet to complain about the internet,nice one ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    DazMarz wrote: »
    I think that this generation is better prepared for a zombie apocalypse than an hour or two without the internet, tbh.

    Also: see the South Park episode "Overlogging".


    I guess there could be an age factor - say 30 +. They have had a life without it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    delw wrote: »
    So Op you are bored of the internet,then come on to internet to complain about the internet,nice one ;)


    The Irony - I like that bit :P

    Change from within.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    No way in hell.

    Without the internet, I'd probably never have seen this! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    KungPao wrote: »
    No way in hell.

    Without the internet, I'd probably never have seen this! :)


    QED


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Dwork


    "Trainspotting " comes to mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    It's got cats and bewbs on it, so that alone makes it overtake fire, the wheel and pop tarts as the greatest invention in history.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Has anybody hit a wall?

    Sick of it
    Goining in circles
    wasting your life
    Kim Kardashian arse
    Round and Round
    Try real Life
    Get Out
    Meet a friend
    Go the Pub
    Walk on the beach
    Eat a blackberry
    See a play
    Look at a cloud
    Then die

    :rolleyes:;):confused::eek:

    Not one mention of porn. Are we talking about the same internet here?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    problem in the run up to Y2J was that it was Underdated.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,351 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Totally!:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭McCrack


    The interweb is truly a wonderful thing. Its here to stay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Haven't beaten hard mode yet. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    krudler wrote: »
    cats and bewbs


    Yay for cats and bewbs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,677 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I'd eat a Blackberry, don't like Apple and Nokias are too chewy.


    Okay, I'll leave. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Mech1


    I guess there could be an age factor - say 30 +. They have had a life without it.

    sorry but i'm 45 1st pc was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
    in kit form, then spent loads of time building it, then spent years typing in the likes of this:

    10 PRINT TAB(33);"TOWERS"
    20 PRINT TAB(15);"CREATIVE COMPUTING MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY"
    30 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
    90 PRINT
    100 REM*** INITIALIZE
    110 DIM T(7,3)
    120 E=0
    130 FOR D=1 TO 7
    140 FOR N=1 TO 3
    150 T(D,N)=0
    160 NEXT N
    170 NEXT D
    180 PRINT "TOWERS OF HANOI PUZZLE.": PRINT
    200 PRINT "YOU MUST TRANSFER THE DISKS FROM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT"
    205 PRINT "TOWER, ONE AT A TIME, NEVER PUTTING A LARGER DISK ON A"
    210 PRINT "SMALLER DISK.": PRINT
    215 INPUT "HOW MANY DISKS DO YOU WANT TO MOVE (7 IS MAX)";S
    220 PRINT
    230 M=0
    240 FOR Q=1 TO 7
    250 IF Q=S THEN 350
    260 NEXT Q
    270 E=E+1
    280 IF E>2 THEN 310
    290 PRINT "SORRY, BUT I CAN'T DO THAT JOB FOR YOU.": GOTO 215
    310 PRINT "ALL RIGHT, WISE GUY, IF YOU CAN'T PLAY THE GAME RIGHT, I'LL"
    320 PRINT "JUST TAKE MY PUZZLE AND GO HOME. SO LONG.": STOP
    340 REM *** STORE DISKS FROM SMALLEST TO LARGEST
    350 PRINT "IN THIS PROGRAM, WE SHALL REFER TO DISKS BY NUMERICAL CODE."
    355 PRINT "3 WILL REPRESENT THE SMALLEST DISK, 5 THE NEXT SIZE,"
    360 PRINT "7 THE NEXT, AND SO ON, UP TO 15. IF YOU DO THE PUZZLE WITH"
    365 PRINT "2 DISKS, THEIR CODE NAMES WOULD BE 13 AND 15. WITH 3 DISKS"
    370 PRINT "THE CODE NAMES WOULD BE 11, 13 AND 15, ETC. THE NEEDLES"
    375 PRINT "ARE NUMBERED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, 1 TO 3. WE WILL"
    380 PRINT "START WITH THE DISKS ON NEEDLE 1, AND ATTEMPT TO MOVE THEM"
    385 PRINT "TO NEEDLE 3."
    390 PRINT: PRINT "GOOD LUCK!": PRINT
    400 Y=7: D=15
    420 FOR X=S TO 1 STEP -1
    430 T(Y,1)=D: D=D-2: Y=Y-1
    460 NEXT X
    470 GOSUB 1230
    480 PRINT "WHICH DISK WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE";:E=0
    500 INPUT D
    510 IF (D-3)*(D-5)*(D-7)*(D-9)*(D-11)*(D-13)*(D-15)=0 THEN 580
    520 PRINT "ILLEGAL ENTRY... YOU MAY ONLY TYPE 3,5,7,9,11,13, OR 15."
    530 E=E+1: IF E>1 THEN 560
    550 GOTO 500
    560 PRINT "STOP WASTING MY TIME. GO BOTHER SOMEONE ELSE.": STOP
    580 REM *** CHECK IF REQUESTED DISK IS BELOW ANOTHER
    590 FOR R=1 TO 7
    600 FOR C=1 TO 3
    610 IF T(R,C)=D THEN 640
    620 NEXT C: NEXT R
    640 FOR Q=R TO 1 STEP -1
    645 IF T(Q,C)=0 THEN 660
    650 IF T(Q,C)<D THEN 680
    660 NEXT Q
    670 GOTO 700
    680 PRINT "THAT DISK IS BELOW ANOTHER ONE. MAKE ANOTHER CHOICE."
    690 GOTO 480
    700 E=0
    705 INPUT "PLACE DISK ON WHICH NEEDLE";N
    730 IF (N-1)*(N-2)*(N-3)=0 THEN 800
    735 E=E+1
    740 IF E>1 THEN 780
    750 PRINT "I'LL ASSUME YOU HIT THE WRONG KEY THIS TIME. BUT WATCH IT,"
    760 PRINT "I ONLY ALLOW ONE MISTAKE.": GOTO 705
    780 PRINT "I TRIED TO WARN YOU, BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN."
    790 PRINT "BYE BYE, BIG SHOT.":STOP
    800 FOR R=1 TO 7
    810 IF T(R,N)<>0 THEN 840
    820 NEXT R
    830 GOTO 880
    835 REM *** CHECK IF DISK TO BE PLACED ON A LARGER ONE
    840 IF D<T(R,N) THEN 880
    850 PRINT "YOU CAN'T PLACE A LARGER DISK ON TOP OF A SMALLER ONE,"
    860 PRINT "IT MIGHT CRUSH IT!": PRINT "NOW THEN, ";:GOTO 480
    875 REM *** MOVE RELOCATED DISK
    880 FOR V=1 TO 7: FOR W=1 TO 3
    900 IF T(V,W)=D THEN 930
    910 NEXT W: NEXT V
    925 REM *** LOCATE EMPTY SPACE ON NEEDLE N
    930 FOR U=1 TO 7
    940 IF T(U,N)<>0 THEN 970
    950 NEXT U
    960 U=7: GOTO 980
    965 REM *** MOVE DISK AND SET OLD LOCATION TO 0
    970 U=U-1
    980 T(U,N)=T(V,W): T(V,W)=0
    995 REM *** PRINT OUT CURRENT STATUS
    1000 GOSUB 1230
    1018 REM *** CHECK IF DONE
    1020 M=M+1
    1030 FOR R=1 TO 7: FOR C=1 TO 2
    1050 IF T(R,C)<>0 THEN 1090
    1060 NEXT C: NEXT R
    1080 GOTO 1120
    1090 IF M<=128 THEN 480
    1100 PRINT "SORRY, BUT I HAVE ORDERS TO STOP IF YOU MAKE MORE THAN"
    1110 PRINT "128 MOVES.": STOP
    1120 IF M<>2^S-1 THEN 1140
    1130 PRINT:PRINT "CONGRATULATIONS!!":PRINT
    1140 PRINT "YOU HAVE PERFORMED THE TASK IN";M;"MOVES."
    1150 PRINT: PRINT "TRY AGAIN (YES OR NO)";: INPUT A$
    1160 IF A$="NO" THEN 1390
    1170 IF A$="YES" THEN 90
    1180 PRINT: PRINT "'YES' OR 'NO' PLEASE";: INPUT A$: GOTO 1160
    1230 REM *** PRINT SUBROUTINE
    1240 FOR K=1 TO 7
    1250 Z=10
    1260 FOR J=1 TO 3
    1270 IF T(K,J)=0 THEN 1330
    1280 PRINT TAB(Z-INT(T(K,J)/2));
    1290 FOR V=1 TO T(K,J)
    1300 PRINT "*";
    1310 NEXT V
    1320 GOTO 1340
    1330 PRINT TAB(Z);"*";
    1340 Z=Z+21
    1350 NEXT J
    1360 PRINT
    1370 NEXT K
    1380 RETURN
    1390 PRINT: PRINT "THANKS FOR THE GAME!": PRINT: END

    and by the time I got over all that the BBS's where up and running and I could download it instead. Soon after I could buy a magazine with all the downloads i would ever need on a cd.

    Things have improved a little since, as I type im watching my streaming webcam and downloading my next film to watch. So "overrated my arse"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Playing computer games off tape cassettes
    Not a boom head shot in sight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    It's underrated until the time when I should be going to sleep. Then every webpage is the most interesting thing in the world!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    you probably need to find other interests OP ;)


  • Advertisement
  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The only thing on the OPs list that I didn't do this weekend was go to a play, I went to the cinema though - which I booked on the internet.

    On saturday I went and got my hair done in a hair salon owned by a friend I met on boards. In the afternoon I went geocaching, I walked for 2.5 hours over hills and cliffs to find little treasures, I did this with a friend I met on the internet. Geocaching exists, because of the internet. On Sunday I went to the pub - I got a taxi home using hailo - a smartphone app. On Monday for my hangover I ordered takeaway online and came to boards.ie to get me through the day!

    I think I'll keep my internet for now!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    The only thing on the OPs list that I didn't do was go to a play, I went to the cinema though - which I booked on the internet.

    On saturday I went and got my hair done in a hair salon owned by a friend I met on boards. In the afternoon I went geocaching, I walked for 2.5 hours over hills and cliffs to find little treasures, I did this with a friend I met on the internet. Geocaching exists, because of the internet. On Sunday I went to the pub - I got a taxi home using hailo - a smartphone app. On Monday for my hangover I ordered takeaway online and came to boards.ie to get me through the day!

    I think I'll keep my internet for now!

    But where is ze porn?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Your doing it wrong


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    wait who rated it anyway?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    I think the OP's point is more about spending a lot of time online & pretty much looking at the same sites/things over & over again

    rather than giving the internet a mark out of 10


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    But where is ze porn?

    All the times I didn't account for!


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,849 ✭✭✭764dak


    TV is better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    It has given the uniformed idiots and mouth breathers a platform to spout their gibberish. A pertinent example of this is the comments after articles on thejournal.ie. And even here to be honest.

    It seems to have left people under the hugely mistaken assumption that their opinions are worth listening to, just because they've formed one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    I think the OP's point is more about spending a lot of time online & pretty much looking at the same sites/things over & over again

    rather than giving the internet a mark out of 10

    It's all about balance folks.
    If you do nothing but game, browse and watch porn then I'd say it's tiresome enough.
    Mix it in with a bit of family and friends in the real life and then it's an interesting complement to your life.

    I'm old enough to remember life without the Internet and I'd hate to go back. I remember programming in the BASIC language from above and the first computer game we had in the house was the "tennis" thing with the dot going over and back.

    Then there are the social aspects to the web. The worldis a small place now, we know what people are up to in other countries. Politicians and their cronies are finding it harder to hide their grubby secrets.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Mech1 wrote: »
    sorry but i'm 45 1st pc was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
    in kit form, then spent loads of time building it, then spent years typing in the likes of this:
    180 PRINT "TOWERS OF HANOI PUZZLE.": PRINT
    200 PRINT "YOU MUST TRANSFER THE DISKS FROM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT"
    205 PRINT "TOWER, ONE AT A TIME, NEVER PUTTING A LARGER DISK ON A"
    210 PRINT "SMALLER DISK.": PRINT
    ...
    1390 PRINT: PRINT "THANKS FOR THE GAME!": PRINT: END
    
    "THANKS FOR THE GAME!"

    Don't ever play it with 64 disks because the world will end when you move the last disk :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Gambas


    Overrated? no, just overgrown


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,765 ✭✭✭P.C.


    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
    Teach a man how to use the internet, and he will never bug you again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    I think the OP's point is more about spending a lot of time online & pretty much looking at the same sites/things over & over again

    rather than giving the internet a mark out of 10


    That is it batistuta - it is very repetitive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    The only thing on the OPs list that I didn't do this weekend was go to a play, I went to the cinema though - which I booked on the internet.

    On saturday I went and got my hair done in a hair salon owned by a friend I met on boards. In the afternoon I went geocaching, I walked for 2.5 hours over hills and cliffs to find little treasures, I did this with a friend I met on the internet. Geocaching exists, because of the internet. On Sunday I went to the pub - I got a taxi home using hailo - a smartphone app. On Monday for my hangover I ordered takeaway online and came to boards.ie to get me through the day!

    I think I'll keep my internet for now!

    That is a good point - were carrying out the activities more enjoyable than being online ?

    You are using it to facilitate real life experiences - that is a positive use of it.

    I'm asking , for the majority does it reduce those experiences ?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I've been using the internet since I was about 11 or so. I'm 27 now, so that's 16 years of being online and I haven't got bored yet - I mean, how could you?! It's ever evolving, with so many new things coming about, and it's the biggest library ever created.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,315 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Have you seen Two Girls One Cup yet?

    =-=

    I've gotten a few jobs through the internet, and made friends with people I've met on the internet, so its what you make of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,426 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    the_syco wrote: »
    Have you seen Two Girls One Cup yet?

    =-=

    I've gotten a few jobs through the internet, and made friends with people I've met on the internet, so its what you make of it.

    No thanks.

    People got jobs before the internet - it just changed the way people got jobs. Not exactly life changing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    No thanks.

    People got jobs before the internet - it just changed the way people got jobs. Not exactly life changing.

    I'm not exactly sure how much of life you'd experienced per-Internet but it indeed has changed our lives, mostly for the better. I'm not saying we couldn't live without it, but used positively it is a wonderful assed to modern life.
    I can check my bank balance and pay bills outside bank hours, I can easily communicate with friends across the globe practically instantly. Two simple examples but things unheard of to ordinary people when I left college.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    it certainly gets old when you are bored at work !!!!


    edit - but I am never bored at work (luckily) .... well sooometimes ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    That is it batistuta - it is very repetitive.

    This is a human trait i think

    i'd say most peoples internet use is something like this, not ordered:

    check emails
    boards - since were here :pac: /other forums/reddit
    facebook/twitter/other social media site
    youtube
    news sites: current events/technological/whatever
    their interests or hobbies - sport teams, etc.
    games

    with out repetitiveness there wouldn't be popular sites on the internet, these sites or whatever site actually have benefits but do people spend time on them they probably could do without - i'd say yes

    the internet is a bit like TV was accused of being, sometimes people will be/stay online for the sake of being online, like watching something on TV that you've no real interest in

    just cut down on your use of the internet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    No thanks.

    People got jobs before the internet - it just changed the way people got jobs. Not exactly life changing.

    Not me. Well, not for a while. I work for big web company. So go buy stuff. keep me in a job.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement