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A week without home internet really shows you how addicted you are to it.
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Vermillion
Banned
Right. You can even apply it to other things. Being trapped indoors for a week, being without books, etc.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
This is why when they said peurto rico won't have power until mid december I felt bad for them.
No net until mid december would be unacceptable. No net for a today is already bad for me.
You indeed get a sense of isolation and we get used to the constant feed of information.
The being alone in silence with your own thoughts is something that we just don't do anymore.
Man the middle ages must of suuuucked.
No net until mid december would be unacceptable. No net for a today is already bad for me.
You indeed get a sense of isolation and we get used to the constant feed of information.
The being alone in silence with your own thoughts is something that we just don't do anymore.
Man the middle ages must of suuuucked.
Hard to imagine. Back then a lot of time was spent carrying out chores just to survive. The necessities of life required most of their time. Imagine how fit they would be hand working fields or a soldier spending all day sword training.
An 8 hour a day desk job with weekends off wasn't happening a lot in the middle ages.
TheCthultist
Member
We typically lose it for about a week every couple months here. Shitty service providers and whatnot. Becomes a great time to catch up on reading and writing usually. Really sucks for anyone working from home or taking internet classes though; particularly in the winter when its significantly more difficult to travel to somewhere that has a hotspot...
Before the internet people would just do different 'unproductive' things. It's called
leisure
Baraka Obama
Banned
Pretty much
Finale Fireworker
Member
When I was a kid and the Internet was barely a thing, running out of things to do was fatal. Since my parents capped my television use, I regularly reached periods of intense boredom where I would lay on the ground in my bedroom staring at the ceiling.
This occasionally shows up in media like this:
Friend 1: Im bored, what do you want to do?
Friend 2: I dunno, what do you want to do?
And then they go back and forth until an inciting incident occurs or one of them has a sudden fit of inspiration. But for me, that rarely happened. We would just meander. Walking around, doing nothing, and then somebody would go home because there was nothing to do.
Then the internet happened and we could play computer and never be bored again.
umop_3pisdn
Member
Yeah, at this point the internet is arguably a substantial form of contact with the world, so of course we'd find its absence unsettling.
Why are are you comparing one of your bodys 5 senses to the Internet? That actually seems a bit insulting to those with actual disabilities. If I were a blind person, I wouldnt want my disability as being made equivalent to losing internet access.
AtomskEater
Member
The first few hours/days are rough, but after that I just kind of chill and engage in reading or watching tv or whatever.
Truth.
As a freelancer and small business owner it's also my primary vector of employment. Thank god for cloud services and android apps that allow me to continue working in tandem with other mobile devices when the internet is down (ex: during a hurricane) because without any access at all I would be absolutely fucked.
Sorry but I cannot relate to your hypothetical. Read above for context. To me internet access is absolutely vital.
Both your senses and the internet allow you to communicate and interact with the world. I'm talking to you right now from a room in my basement. You can see what I'm typing because we both have the internet.
PedroPanache
Member
I think the poster is using hyperbole to illustrate to just how intrinsic the internet has become to our daily lives. It's a bit fair to take it in such a way that it's somehow an insult to disabled people.
No, you wouldnt be absolutely fucked. Youd be in good health still and able to find other means to handle your business, even if they arent efficient or good. Going blind is nowhere like your workflow being ruined or not being able to chat with random people alone.
andythinkpad
Member
If you are not tethering off your phone or staying in Startbucks until 10:30pm you are doing it wrong.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
Well yes, and no. Hard to work in the darkness. So a lot of the time must of been sat in a barn or some wooden structure, just being cold and squatting around a candle. Maybe making bread or something.
Just hours in darkness. I suppose you get the weekend execution to look at.
Depends what kind of class of life you had. But when it's dark, time for just sitting and reading, the bible? If you're lucky enough to be literate?
I don't know about how fit, but they must of been some seriously hard men.
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Deleted member 10571
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Last time I had a blackout the first thing I started to do was trying to turn on the pc so I could google what to do during a blackout.
I'm not even kidding.
Literally slapped my hand on my forehead hard after that, too.
I'm not even kidding.
Literally slapped my hand on my forehead hard after that, too.
I'm addicted to breathing. I literally can't stop.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You don't know enough about me to know whether or not I am in good health or whether or not I have a disability and you don't know enough about my work/ business/ skill-set to know how readily capable I would be to find employment elsewhere without internet access.
Figures you're the one who made this thread to begin with. Get a clue/ take the L.
funkystudent
Member
Once my ISP sent a new router and it didnt work and our old one was taken away so we had to wait a few days for them to activate the new router properly.
IT WAS THE WORST. I felt bad for how bad I felt for not having internet. it was pathetic.
I think it was the weekend of the Destiny 1 Alpha as well.
IT WAS THE WORST. I felt bad for how bad I felt for not having internet. it was pathetic.
I think it was the weekend of the Destiny 1 Alpha as well.
Wowfunhappy
Member
When I first moved into a new apartment I didnt get internet for a month or so. I couldnt decide between two different dividers, and besides, I wanted to come to a firm decision on how to arrange furniture so I wouldnt put the modem in the wrong place and regret it later.
Honestly, it was fine, just annoying. My games work without internet, and I keep movies and TV shows on a hard drive where they are accessible offline.
Fun fact I discovered, if you set up a new macOS machine, dont connect it to the internet, and transfer previously-purchased Mac App Store apps over from a USB drive, they will work fine. Apple seems to turn off the Apple ID authentication check on machines that are fully offline.
I did have my phone for looking up the occasional thing on Google, so maybe this experience doesnt count. I couldnt tether though, at least not without jumping through a crap ton of hoops.
Relevent: Paul Miller, a tech journalist, went a year with no internet access at all as an experiment of sorts, and wrote a series of essays throughout.
Honestly, it was fine, just annoying. My games work without internet, and I keep movies and TV shows on a hard drive where they are accessible offline.
Fun fact I discovered, if you set up a new macOS machine, dont connect it to the internet, and transfer previously-purchased Mac App Store apps over from a USB drive, they will work fine. Apple seems to turn off the Apple ID authentication check on machines that are fully offline.
I did have my phone for looking up the occasional thing on Google, so maybe this experience doesnt count. I couldnt tether though, at least not without jumping through a crap ton of hoops.
Relevent: Paul Miller, a tech journalist, went a year with no internet access at all as an experiment of sorts, and wrote a series of essays throughout.
SillyEskimo
Member
Its amazing how much faster you take to poop.
Cannot connect to Kindle Store. Failed to connect to PSN.
Wowfunhappy
Member
Unless you somehow got your hands on a prerelease Xbox One (that also connects to PSN somehow), why do you need to connect to the internet to play your games? Unless theyre all online multiplayer only.
Kindle should work fine too.
Pretty much everything is designed for that