could you live without the internet?

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by Girth

Is Pete posting under your name again Lissa??

No, that was me.

And this is me too.

Honest

[SoulKiss]

Nope, but then again I work for an ISP so it pays the bills

Nope.

Nope, do everything online these days, tax cars and bikes, do my insurance for cars and bikes, buy stuff, sell stuff and made a load of great mates on here

I really really wouldn't want to. When my connection goes down it feels like I'm going cold turkey. It might possibly lead to a much healthier life style though.

whats the internet?

is anyone selling one? or have a link to a cheap one.

i have a 2000 curvey, will the internet affect the bhp?

















haha

Originally Posted by 2mths

I really really wouldn't want to. When my connection goes down it feels like I'm going cold turkey. It might possibly lead to a much healthier life style though.

exactly

No I dont think I could, I buy everything online, even my food shopping, I need it for OU, (well you can use snail mail to submit assignments but its much better when you can submit online the day it's due in!). I dont use the phone book I use yell.com - much quicker, I look things up that I need to know, and so on and so on...

With respect, I think the question is kind of daft, though I see the reasoning behind it.

We can all live without the internet. Man has lived on this earth for thousands of years when Argos didn't offer delivery to his cave.

We could all go without it, but at what expense?

High street shops would have all of our money, at the prices they saw fit.
Insurance companies would have us over a barrel (moreso than they have now)
Maps would still be something you had to go to the library to get
People would (generally speaking) be back in the day when "that was the price, and you paid it if you wanted it"

I think that the advent of the internet really has brought high street shopping and commercialism from the big names and brands to their knees in the shopping sense of things. Consumers are more aware, and more open to shopping around, without having to get on the bus.

Imagine how hard estate agents would have to work without being able to plaster their "units" onto rightmove.co.uk and sitting it out.

Imagine the massive queues in the post office when everything road/car/bike related had to be done at the same time as the pensions were. Imagine how much relief the staff have felt there in the last 10 years since direct.gov.uk helped out (!). Probably best to close those local post offices now, eh? After all, they're not needed.....

Anyway,

I think the best thing by far to come (functionally speaking) from "the internet" is satellite imagery.

Nowhere else historically has been able to give you what Google's Aerial views, street views and AboutMyPlace's birds eye views give you now, without chartering your own plane, or hijacking a chopper.

That said, we'd all be forced to talk to each other on the street a lot more, wouldn't we, without our Facebook friends, forum friends and other cyberloons? The man in the butchers would know your first name, and might ask you how your other half is this week, rather than giving you his meat (sorry) and then getting back to his 3G Facebook Wall-to-Wall?

Think instead - what would you DO without the internet?

I'd not be stuck behind a desk, thats for sure. I'd be doing something practical.

We're lazy, and we like it, in my opinion. I for one can't spend another 30 years on the internet, thats for sure. It has its uses, but its grossly overused, which is why we have children of today hooked on cyber-thisandthat, with no conversational skills, personality or manners. They don't get out enough, and the parents have taught them no better (generalism, excuse me).

Bring back Ceefax, press HOLD.

Originally Posted by ooger

We could all go without it, but at what expense?

Long post, but exactly on the money with the above quote!

Personally, I have lived without the internet (after being a net-o-holic), and it was great! Mainly as I wasn't working either & just enjoying life.

I wouldn't have a job if the internet suddenly didn't exist, but I could do other work.

What would it cost for me to give up the internet? Well, so long as I had enough money to pay for everything we get now, I'd have to say time. Stop me having to go to work, but I can keep the income, and the internet is gone! Bye! Don't let the door hit you on the way out! In fact, I'd sell my left arm as part of the deal too!