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 ;-)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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I'd get the shakes after a day with no net!
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 ;-)
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.
I've done it several times, for longer than a week usually as well.
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
Then you're soooooo wrong .
Wrong.
Correct.
I would be able to find plenty else to do to fill my time though.
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.
He isn't the only one who said they can go without the internet.
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.