Anyone remember when The Times ran a big annual quiz competition called 'Tournament of the Mind'?
Every day for about 4 weeks, there would be 5 questions, all of which required great feats of mathematical brilliance, lateral thinking, or just detailed research to answer.
I imagine the answers to every Tournament of the Mind question from the 80s could be found online within minutes, so if there were no Internet, maybe the Times would still be doing that?
EDIT: Ah! And here's the self-proclaimed geek who won it!
I'd have to watch more TV
I'd have to buy CDs instead of downloading music from iTunes
I'd have to spend hours searching through hundreds of books to find something rather than finding it in a few seconds on Google
I'd be bored stiff without Youtube
I'd be lost without DS and MacRumors forums
'What a crazy state of affairs! Its 2013 and no one has invented the internet'. That what you think as you wake up in the morning to start your day.
But what of that day? What would a day in your life be like without t'internet? Sure, big companies use networked systems to exchange information and we can use basic messaging services on computers, but that's about it. The internet as we know it never took off - there is no world wide web, just nerdy networks used for business purposes.
What would be the biggest changes that you think you'd notice if the WWW didn't exist as the open source, cultural, all consuming thing that it actually is?
For anyone born before 1990, you can probably remember a time when the internet played no part in your life, so bring that experience to the present day - how would it affect your day to day life, technology, culture etc?
My job would exist, but in a more bureaucratic, less effective way. There would still be bookshops and CD shops on the High Street. I'd get frustrated that I couldn't check bus or train delays like I used to in the early 1990s, except by phoning the company direct. But, back in those days, I COULD phone direct, and speak to someone actually working there. Outsourcing offshore would be much lower key, for instance.
I'd be less well informed than I am now, and unable to check the facts and offer instant rebuttals as I do presently, when told complete ill-informed rubbish ;-)
Surely the very fact that you are complaining that no one has invented the internet means that (a) you know what 'internet' means and (b) by default it must exist, at least in theory.
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Shhhh, don't give away the secrets.;)
Every day for about 4 weeks, there would be 5 questions, all of which required great feats of mathematical brilliance, lateral thinking, or just detailed research to answer.
I imagine the answers to every Tournament of the Mind question from the 80s could be found online within minutes, so if there were no Internet, maybe the Times would still be doing that?
EDIT: Ah! And here's the self-proclaimed geek who won it!
http://johnsadventures.com/2008/03/27/my-5-minutes-of-geek-fame/
I'd have to buy CDs instead of downloading music from iTunes
I'd have to spend hours searching through hundreds of books to find something rather than finding it in a few seconds on Google
I'd be bored stiff without Youtube
I'd be lost without DS and MacRumors forums
I'd be less well informed than I am now, and unable to check the facts and offer instant rebuttals as I do presently, when told complete ill-informed rubbish ;-)
When jobhunting, it would be a matter of walking around town looking for posters in windows like the old days.
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It's a profession, a trade, not some sort of holiday job. :rolleyes:
Which is probably still preferable to online job searching.
2013 and no internet ?, I'd have to talk to people and get a girlfriend.