Be Honest: If the Internet Ended Tomorrow, Would You Really Care?

financial issues wrote:

Internet User Guy wrote:

I was able to do most of this stuff prior to the Internet.

The infrastructure has changed since then, though. We wouldn't just instantaneously revert to the old system the second the internet shut down.

Are you sure? I don't think the infrastructure has changed that much. It would be way to easy to hack if all the information depended on the internet. If it had changed, banks would have system crashes like airlines do every few months recently.

my sex life, and the sex life of 10 of my made up personas would REALLY suffer!

Like Damn, should have bought phone stocks yesterday.

Yes.

Forget the internet. I would be happy if they got rid of all the idiotic replay reviews in sports.

Yes. I love the access to information and ease of getting it.

I would have withdrawal but end up much healthier overall after 2 weeks.

If the internet was GONE tomorrow, worldwide panic would ensue. Make no mistake about it.

Wouldn't much care--it would just mean more time to run, play my guitar, and have real relationships with non-anonymous people, although it might be a drag re-training my mind to read from left to right instead of from up to down.

-We'd get over it.

-Millions of people would find out their job isn't important in the scheme of things.

-LRC would be a magazine so what takes a couple of hours for an argument with dozens of posts would take years if not decades to progress since a month will pass until you can write another "letter to the editor".

-After a week of staring at their phone without anything happening teenagers will finally say this is lame and do something useful.

-Adults will find another addiction.

-My first few years of college I used the "card Catalog" to find books, so yeah I have skills and I will survive.

China invented the Common Carrier Mail Service in the 13th Century.

Ever since then people have been trashing each other across continents.

I'd love it because I know Secret Old Man stuff like where to buy newspapers and how to read a map.

It's China's FAULT wrote:

China invented the Common Carrier Mail Service in the 13th Century.

Ever since then people have been trashing each other across continents.

Was that the beginning of the Russian Porno Industry?

Skkfjc wrote:

Well id lose my job and wouldnt be able to console myself with porn so yeah, i definitely would

+1

Actually, credit cards predate the internet. Merchants used carbon forms that took an embossing from your card. You could even call in orders to catalogs and they would take your credit card info over the phone.

This is dumb. The world would end without the internet.

Spice Channel wrote:

It's China's FAULT wrote:

China invented the Common Carrier Mail Service in the 13th Century.

Ever since then people have been trashing each other across continents.

Was that the beginning of the Russian Porno Industry?

Yup, the Monghol Hordes sold Russian slaves through Crimea to Meditteranean countries. Obiviously lots of young girl slaves were sold for re-productive purposes. Hence the name 'Slavs'.

Skkfjc wrote:

Well id lose my job and wouldnt be able to console myself with porn so yeah, i definitely would

Amen, brother.+1.

Mr Troll to you wrote:

I am all for it. Puts working girls back on the street corner.

They're still there where I stay.