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What If the Internet Never Existed??
Posted by dialoguewithyou • 10/22/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bloggers, blogging, internet, life
Had the internet never existed, how would your life have differed from what it is now?
What all would you have not done or achieved?
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I would have not had to buy several desk chairs and now an oversized chair for the living room if Internet had not exsisted. I probably would have not met alot of the people i know if the internet had not exisited. Other than that I have accomplished most of what I have wanted. The money is holding me back not the internet.-
Catalogues would still exist.
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it was inevitable after the telephone and computer came in.. -
The world would never have known my genius
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good point
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TV forever
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If internet was not discovered, I would not have come to be your friend and many more friends out there. I would have been a darn old woman retiree today perhaps mulling endlessly about living alone, slowly losing my self-confidence with my stagnating faculties that go with old age. Hahaha! This is the real world and it's great!I'm just a beginner blogger still groping in the dark but it's fun to discover thru the internet.-
@ litmalic
good points there. thanks for sharing
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Pre-computers, my university used to give students 3 years to write a Master's thesis and 5 years to write a PhD thesis. Most of those years were spent sitting in research libraries, waiting for inter-library loans to arrive and taking notes by hand from papers, academic journals and books.
If the internet never existed, I would still be in a dusty library somewhere, with no social life, ruined eyes from too much reading and rheumatoid arthritis from too much hand writing. -
All were right to say about the importance of the Internet for learning, cognition, rapid communication and exchange of information ... but still - without the Internet would not be Love, even if virtual, but many hearts united thanks to the internet =)
I'm in the process))) -
My visions would still be 20/20.-
good one
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I would not have found you! -
I might still be reading the encyclopedia. -
I wouldn't have gotten exposed to the wide range of ideas and opinions found around the world.
I would have written, but in a much more insulated way, where I would not have had readers unless a traditional publisher chose to publish my work. And that's a very hit-and-miss business.
My 9-5 job would change, too, as most of my activities there involve writing for the web in some way. -
Maybe I will be more productive and meet my own inner talent like dancing or cooking.-
good point
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I'd have a lot more time on my hands for sure. Blogging, surfing, and reading on the Internet definitely takes up many hours of my day. I wouldn't have created my on-line craft blog and probably would be making crafts more locally for craft fairs etc. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of sharing my ideas and free patterns if not for the Internet though. Maybe I would have written a book featuring all my craft ideas...
Your thread question is very thought provoking and does make a person wonder how their life would have been different without the world wide web.-
thanks Cindy.
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I'd still be driving around looking for a pay phone that worked and didn't steal my quarter.
Why? Because the net changed the world and how we live in it.
No more people claiming how they had to walk 10 miles in a storm to get to school. Over hills and and through the valley. They click and boom they are there if they want to be. The net opened doors for cell phones as well. We grew way too much in just 20 years. -
Oh my gosh! No internet. I would probably have a life, know what the sun looks like and I would not be so over weight. -
I'd be slogging through the rain into an office somewhere instead of at work in warm, comfortable clothes in my bedroom. -
It would take longer to gain information and it would have taken longer for us to evolve technology wise. -
I would say that if the internet never existed the world's population growth ratio would have continued to climb at an alarming rate.
Internet = Less Sex Being Had = Population Control.
It is all a conspiracy by the governments of the world! Who know?!?!
* This message, for those without humor, was presented as a smart ass comment. By it's very nature it is ludicrous to assume that any such government of the world would have the collective intellect to mastermind such a broad reaching plot! No, really!-
This is a most excellent reply. I like it. -
Great point!
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The growth of technology is driven by porn. Colour tv, VHS, the internet. If the internet didn't exist, we'd all be getting lucky in virtual reality. -
Without the Internet we may have felt slightly more secure. Bored maybe, but changes in our lives, our perceptions would arrive at a more comfortable, adjustable pace.
I have to admit I like the whirlwind the Internet has created. The social world is in flux. Media control, copyright, honesty, fraud, creativity, politics, media, networking, instant bonding...a swirl of questions. I like not knowing all. (Knowing all would be boring).
I am typing here. Enjoying it.-
Thanks for sharing your views Rivy
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I wouldn't be answering this thread. -
I probably wouldn't have found my favorite book, which was out of print(one of the first things I did on the Internet was look for it on Ebay)I wouldn't have met William. Now that would really suck.
But there are a lot of things I would prefer to do without, like my Internet addiction, too much sitting around, recurring phases of mild to moderate agoraphobia. -
my job would be easier... if not non-existent! and I would have a lot more time on my hands! -
Trying to meet hot girls by morse code or ham radio couldn't have been very good.
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ROFL!
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Simple, brain storming with my studies(planning to kill the people who wrote our books), playing my guitar on streets, riding carelessly in our tiny, little streets, having loads and loads of fun with friends!(ofc i miss them now) -
I wouldn't know people in many different countries... but I bet my mouse-hand wouldn't always hurt like hell -
I wouldn't be getting married to my fiancee next month, I wouldn't have have the guff I have in my house and my Nintendo game collection would be minimal. Let alone everything being broken or having to spend a fortune paying someone to do things that only now need a quick search engine result. -
Then u poor things sooooo woulda lost out on ME -
I wouldn't have met some of the great people that I have had the pleasure of communicating with from far off places. -
I couldn't have met you! -
I wuda read sooooo many good books instead of daily supply of spam/BC discussion *rap
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Me to
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Bill Gates would be working at Burger King. -
I wouldn't be e-stalked and accused of it at the same time
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I would have kept thinking other countries still looked like they did in the history books. Even now when I see posh cities, where I least expect them, it just shows me how liberating the Internet has been for all of us. I am so interested in the world's inhabitants and without the Internet I would have lost out on ... well ... almost all of you. that would have been very sad. I would have been reading more literature, going to more shows and hanging out in nightclubs for art and conversation.
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Porn would be distributed by people actually going in to shops that specialize in it. No one wants to do that, no one.-
hahah xD Porn addict! LOL
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My day job (web content strategist) wouldn't exist.
My hobbies (ebook publisher, blogger, ebook writer) wouldn't exist.
I wouldn't have met my girlfriend (we met online).
I'd probably be a starving novelist, still living in a garret somewhere.-
Wow! your life seems to have changed completely cause of the internet.
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I met some very good people online too!
and part of my hobbies are online too. -
I guess I'm pretty lucky I live now rather than a hundred years ago. Still, I figure that one of the reasons I'm drawn to the web is the opportunities it represents - and there were always opportunities. I guess I would have just had to look in a different direction.
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You defiantly would have not read this reply -
I think Internet has woven the world around into one. Without it, we would have been miles apart. Enjoy the technology ! -
It never did for me until eight months ago. So I guess my world wouldn't be that much different.
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I wouldn't be writing this comment.-
very true
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beer only -
I dont have a blog... I dont have a facebook... And maybe I am not an I.T student...Farmer probably.. -
Volumes of Encyclopedia (hard books) may still hot as boiling water in the market.
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