How can you go without the internet?

Rare Groove · 18/09/13 - 22:09

I'd be surprised if anyone who posts on DS can go a week without the internet or at least wanting to log on;)

[Deleted User] · 18/09/13 - 22:10

I have no internet when away and get on fine. After 3 days or so you just forget about DS etc.

and101 · 18/09/13 - 22:11

I could go without the internet for a week but my customers would probably be a bit pissed off if I tried it.

[Deleted User] · 18/09/13 - 22:13

I did for the first 30 odd years of my life

Miss XYZ · 18/09/13 - 22:13

A week?! :eek: :eek:

I'd get the shakes after a day with no net!

PlatinumSteve · 18/09/13 - 22:15

tothegrand wrote: »

I have no internet when away and get on fine. After 3 days or so you just forget about DS etc.

Same here when I have to travel for work, or I'm on vacation, I'm like what's the internet? Sadly the last 4 months haven't seen a good vacation for me, and the next one is likely not till next May (super sad face, haha) but maybe the internet will help me pass the time quicker ;-)

~Twinkle~ · 18/09/13 - 22:22

I can't imagine where I'd find the time to keep leafing through books to find out any information that I needed, that's if I even had the relevant books to refer to. So much quicker to do a quick search on the internet than to treck up to the library. I'd manage as I did before but I'd find it frustrating.

zx50 · 18/09/13 - 22:52

Rare Groove wrote: »

I'd be surprised if anyone who posts on DS can go a week without the internet or at least wanting to log on;)

Yes, I could live without the internet. However, it would mean that I wouldn't be able to get hard to get items without it. It would also mean that I wouldn't be able to get any series/films etc to see if I liked them enough to buy them. The internet provides you with loads of things at the press of a key, or click of a mouse button. I'd really miss the internet because of what it provides, but I do think I could manage to live without it. Once I got used to not having it around, I do think I'd just get on with life without it.

Jane Doh! · 18/09/13 - 22:54

Rare Groove wrote: »

I'd be surprised if anyone who posts on DS can go a week without the internet or at least wanting to log on;)

I've done it several times, for longer than a week usually as well.

Baz O · 18/09/13 - 23:00

Yes I can ... I only started using it 5 years ago and if it didn't exist I wouldn't miss it.

Rare Groove · 18/09/13 - 23:02

PlatinumSteve wrote: »

Same here when I have to travel for work, or I'm on vacation, I'm like what's the internet? Sadly the last 4 months haven't seen a good vacation for me, and the next one is likely not till next May (super sad face, haha) but maybe the internet will help me pass the time quicker ;-)

That's different, I am referring to your day to day life. It's easy to forgo the internet on your holidays, that is why they are called holidays, everyone takes a break

NX-74205 · 18/09/13 - 23:02

I could easily go without the internet for a few weeks, but that ain't going to happen any time soon because access to the internet is a pretty big requirement for my job.

stud u like · 18/09/13 - 23:10

I find it useful every day. I read plenty of psychological and sociological articles online I would not have access to otherwise.

ic · 18/09/13 - 23:53

Rare Groove wrote: »

I'd be surprised if anyone who posts on DS can go a week without the internet or at least wanting to log on;)

Then you're soooooo wrong .

[Deleted User] · 18/09/13 - 23:57

Rare Groove wrote: »

I'd be surprised if anyone who posts on DS can go a week without the internet or at least wanting to log on;)

Wrong.

ic wrote: »

Then you're soooooo wrong .

Correct.

Owen_Kent · 18/09/13 - 23:58

Not a chance as I need internet for most things, mostly Jobseeking as if I went to the library to do Jobseeking I wouldn't have much time on the pc.

[Deleted User] · 18/09/13 - 23:59

I find it very inconvenient and I would be annoyed at not being able to google things or look something up quickly. I would also find life more expensive without internet access.

I would be able to find plenty else to do to fill my time though.

RogerBailey · 19/09/13 - 00:00

My connection has been down in the past and it didn't bother me much. I went 27 years without it anyway.

There's plenty to do on a PC without the internet tbh. Mainly reading. And writing.

I still find myself compulsively saving info to my hard drive from websites - for instance I have hundreds of pdfs exported from wikipedia. I'm not sure why when nowadays I have a very reliable always-on connection.

I think it's a habit I picked up from the dial-up internet days. I had a package which gave me access from 7pm to 7am weekdays and all weekend. So I would save stuff to read on the computer when I was unable to connect during weekday daytimes.

Jane Doh! · 19/09/13 - 00:11

Rare Groove wrote: »

That's different, I am referring to your day to day life. It's easy to forgo the internet on your holidays, that is why they are called holidays, everyone takes a break

He isn't the only one who said they can go without the internet.

wear thefoxhat · 19/09/13 - 00:13

When ever I go abroad on holiday I have no internet or tv and get along fine, I also don't buy a newspaper, when on holiday I like to leave the modern world behind and really unwind.

Cadiva · 19/09/13 - 00:14

I go without using the internet whenever we go away to the in-laws or on holiday to the family house in the New Forest. Sometimes I don't bother to check anything online until late in the evening or the following day, depends on what I'm doing.

Magic Cottage · 19/09/13 - 00:14

RogerBailey wrote: »

My connection has been down in the past and it didn't bother me much. I went 27 years without it anyway.

There's plenty to do on a PC without the internet tbh. Mainly reading. And writing.

I still find myself compulsively saving info to my hard drive from websites - for instance I have hundreds of pdfs exported from wikipedia. I'm not sure why when nowadays I have a very reliable always-on connection.

I think it's a habit I picked up from the dial-up internet days. I had a package which gave me access from 7pm to 7am weekdays and all weekend. So I would save stuff to read on the computer when I was unable to connect during weekday daytimes.

I hate saying with respect but with respect is that relevant. It's like saying my grandfather got along without TV. Reason: because it hadn't been invented. Surely, this is the same with any technology, not just the internet. The mobile phone comes to mind.

cnbcwatcher · 19/09/13 - 00:32

I couldn't go a day without it. I'd go mad! I use the internet more than I watch TV these days.

RuthStar · 19/09/13 - 01:26

I couldn't go more than a day, I just find my life is much more enriched "with" the internet, if everyone went without it, they're wouldn't be a DS lol..

Pencil · 19/09/13 - 01:29

I struggle to go one evening without the internet.

OhWhenTheSaints · 19/09/13 - 01:32

Seems a good thread to post this...Anyone else's Facebook chat not working properly?

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