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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