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[whyme]

Another not-so-obviuos quetion, this sparked up again when I made a prevoius topic, What do you use the internet for?. For me, I'd proably be sitting in my bedroom tqidling thumbs, i mean if ther ewas no interent there would be no:

Google, or Amazon, or eBay, or PayPal, or Forums, or Flash Games, or Websites, or Online Banking, or PHP, or HTML, ASP, or CSS, or Yahoo, or heck, even trap17 wouldn't have existsed.

Just thinking about losing the internet is scary.

[no9t9]

If there was no internet then I would have a life. I would go out and be active doing things like jogging, rollerblading, or football. I would not be the fat slob that I am right now.

I would also develop social skills because I would have to go out and make friends and hang out with them. Ideally, I would like to develop wit and sarcasm.

But, since the internet is here and looks like it will stay... I retire to my room so that I am able to continue being a fat, witless, slob.

[bowti3]

Exactly. If there was not internet. I would be died pretty much of bordem. Everyone thinks that internet is like a need now a days. I can't think of living without it for one day. When the cable goes out. I have nothing to do. I get so bored and without Internet...i wouldnt be as smart.. internet is the best thing that has happened to us.

[leiaah]

If there was no internet I would not have chosen my course (BS in IT). I would not have experienced the kind of satisfaction when you see something that you've created being seen anywhere on earth. I probably would have gone to a lot of libraries if there was no internet and I'm sure I'd have a difficult time searching for things that I need.

[err]

no internet?!
means... welcome back 2 flinstone era
yaa... bee... duu... baa... duuu.....

[boyCradle]

if there's no internet, i would probably be continuing my degree in architecture. designing houses and structures which are not mine. I stopped my schooling because i got interested more in computers, designing websites and gadgets and gizmos. now that i am out of school I have all the time to connect to the internet. I just need to find a work so i could enroll for a computer school here in the Philippines. Because computer courses are very expensive in our country. right now i am doing sidelines as webdesigner for our or my former university's official student publication and the website my former College of Architecture and Fine Arts. But I am also planning to continue architecture after gatting a degree in computer.

[Hamtaro]

If ther was no internet...I'd probably be really bored, or something. Also, I couldn't be creative at ALL (I'm not that creative, but working on my website is a way for me to be creative, and it's the only thing I'm actually SOMEWHAT creative with.) Also, I wouldn't be able to chat with other Hamtaro fans (None around where I'm at...anyway, you don't wanna hear me talk about Hamtaro...) Just thinking of their being no internet is creepy, VERY creepy! It's hard to even think about!

[darkmeca]

well internets a very useful tool to have around but i dont think its something i would die for. my longest time for being off the net was about 3 months, my computer broke down plus my broadband was gone so i was left with nothing. so i just hungout with friends and watch tv do what ppl usually do. but now that my comp is back and im on dial up im using the net again and yes internet is fun though there is so much you can do...

[spiderink]

The internet has been escape for me. If it didn't exist... I would probably still be reading books voraciously and/or spending a lot of time on adventure and simulation PC games. Would I have been satisfied with that for six+ years? Maybe, maybe not. I might have been a bit happier overall, or I might have had less joy. Something that happened to me two years ago rather embittered me. But several things came into my life at the same time that have given me a great deal of laughter. And I don't know whether I would have survived just on books. (I was rather depressed about five/six years ago.) I like games, but Sims did get a bit boring. Maybe certain life-changing choices would have been made earlier or not at all.

[Spathi]

without internet, i'd spend all, or at least most of my day either programming or learning how to program games. i'd be more of a waste of space than i am now

[Dawid]

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If there was no internet then I would have a life. I would go out and be active doing things like jogging, rollerblading, or football. I would not be the fat slob that I am right now.

Bravo, good to at least see somebody not shouting "I love the internet!" or "The internet is my life!". The internet has definately helped many many aspects of life but it makes slaves of people. I enjoy the internet thoroughly but make a real effort to never use it if it's a sunny day or anything. Basicly I try to not let it get in the way of me doing something better.

[T100]

Security Focus estimated that around one third of internet traffic went to p2p file sharing. And I estimate that about 70% goes to large files, which include DivX or Xvid files, DVD ISO and etc. And I think half of those files are porn movies. The traffic is really appalling. So it is really a good question to ask: What do you use the Internet for. And think the frankest answer is downloading.

I think most of us have gone through various states being online. From downloading pics, to mp3 and then to software and movies. From 10MB per day to 10GB per day. I was once in the flat of my friend. I immediately spotted out the piles of CD-R there. There are really many people living more or less the same life around the world. We are downloading people.

[Music]

Guys/Girls, You would not die of boredom because there had been no Internet in

the first place so you wouldn't have KNOWN there was an internet so you wouldn't

be bored...do you see my point?

If there was no internet you would have never of known about it so you wouldn't

have gotten all depressed (so on and so forth) that it wasn't there...because you

didn't know =D.

[whyme]

Music, on Feb 12 2005, 09:05 PM, said:

Guys/Girls, You would not die of boredom because there had been no Internet in

the first place so you wouldn't have KNOWN there was an internet so you wouldn't

be bored...do you see my point?

If there was no internet you would have never of known about it so you wouldn't

have gotten all depressed (so on and so forth) that it wasn't there...because you

didn't know =D.

I'm making the assumption that you knew that there was the interent, but then, by some micracoulsiuly mysterous reason, it just dissapeared. then, what would you do?

[guangdian]

If there isn't internet ever before.
I would gotta a better life because My life awaful changed by it.
If I didnt connect with it I would gotta a college life better good but not full with PC games & ICQ & webs
Internet,Devil or Hell.
for me it is
If I can ever do it again I will be alone with internet.
ZZZzzz

[nancmu]

If there isn't internet i will spend all day with sleeping zzZZZ and eating ( fat will come back ).
And the big problem is my account hosting at TRAP17 will be suspended
I hope it won't be happened with me .

[eiteljoh]

i know, for sure, i'd have a job working outside. now i work with computers ... so i'm lucky. i always think i was born about 50 years too late, but then there wouldn't be computers. it's my life at work, and my life, unfortunately, at home ... makes me a bit of a geek, i suppose.

the world would likely be a hell of a lot more simple if there were not internet.

[yomi]

I have three choices I think:
chemical engineering
mathematics research
doctor

[matthewbot]

yeas im hoping the interenet stays up online for at least 50 more years lol! I intend on designing webpages for a living in another decade so, if not, i will definitley be picking up trash on teh roads haha. NO seriously, if there was any internet, id probably like, be studing or something . i be a really big nerd.

[ciproxr]

Maybe if there wasent no internet that wouldnt of been the most horrible thing in the world, i mean people got around before the internet just fine.......

I probably would play guitar better and instead of wasting my money on ISP's and maybe get some real guitar lessons...Who knows i could of been a rockstar by now and had girls lineing up for me instead of being locked in a room alone LOL

The real world is so much better....

[Dragonfly]

If there's no internet, my lifestyle would have definitely be very different. First of all I won't spend much time on computer (who wants to use computer without internet except for games - which is kid's stuffs? ). secondly, I won't bother what is php, asp, isp, forum, email, chat, etc.

I'd be doing the same thing I've been doing but much more time I would have devoted to those, not sitting in front of the computer and looks very busy all the time.. lol

[talbotda13]

If there was no internet i wouldnt be answering this question. lol.

Actually i would be working more hours and living a life that would be net free. which i wish was that way right now.

[JaVe]

While other people go out and waste themeselves getting drunk and stuff, i like to sit inside, television and eat. No internet would mean no smallville and would mean a lot of my life would be gone (i loive smallville). If i had no internet, homework would go slower, but i would also have more free time, when my pc broke until i got a temp backup one, for 3 days at around 20:30 i sat staring into space and thinking; i should go to bed...so i got friendly with my buddy Philips-Television, i got to know more cartoons and shows and learnt to like them. Internet fills my day but when you take it away it takes a while adjusting too, some may find this sad but im not into going out and getting wasted.

[mzwebfreak]

Hmm, seems like a pretty good question. My dad's been in computers longer than my 23 years, so I grew up surrounded by computers and learning early how to get around on the computer, and, subsequently, the internet. I would have to say that I would probably, as some have already said, have better social skills since i would, by necessity, have to get out and socialize more. I would also probably not really have gone the web design route, but might have followed my father onto the programming field. I don't know, but what I do know is that I would miss the online communities that I am a part of, including, but not limited to: stripperweb, thefanlistings.org and the tfl.org boards, codegrrl forums, trap17, and especially all my friends on yahoo and livejournal. There are some positive aspects to a world without the internet, but it also leaves a lot of people in this day an age disconnected from people they could otherwise have great friendships with over long distances.

[hulunes]

ohhhh,which is toooo serious...we will lose lots of useful and joyful things.we could not look over knowledge on internet or chat with friends by msn ,yahoo till to forum...since then i could have not imaged what to do with my pc.hehe,luckly,there is no reason that no internet in our life.