Could you still function a normal life without it?
How would you feel if the internet went out forever?
Having to convert my entire wiki to something like Microsoft Encarta 95 would be a royal pain. But at least if it's offline, I don't need to censor anything due to licensing. But no one else would be able to read it, unless they specifically requested that I burn them a CD.
Without my blogs, my books would be much harder to share. Or market. My software would be almost meaningless, unless I used sneaker net to share Sims and other game mods. But that's a lot of hassling around with flash drives.
Fortunately, I could be less careful and politically correct if I shared only via sneaker net. I get in, install, and get out of the other party's house quickly. I could share whatever I want. Sure, I'd feel like a drug dealer with all the sneaking around, but it is what it is.
My books would all have to be on flash drives or CDs. My Kindle would be almost entirely worthless. Without Google Maps, I'd have to get a Google Maps CD that needs to be updated every year. Or, use real maps the old fashioned way.
I'd possibly lose touch forever with my favorite GAGers, like Pinay. That would hurt. In the days of my life post-Sunny, she sort of helps fill the void left behind.
My PS4 would be weirder. My subscription to PlayStation Plus would cease to exist. My games wouldn't get updates anymore. I'd probably never bother with trying any game I don't already have.
My TV would have that much harder a time being useful. I don't have cable TV, nor particularly want it. Rabbit ears don't work in my room. And without WiFi, a smart TV makes no sense. It'd be just a glorified monitor for the PS4. My Surface Tablet would be almost useless, as it needs WiFi access to support most of what I use it for.
Several companies, like Amazon, would fall on hard times or entirely collapse. EBay, for starters, would cease to exist.
Gone would be Jango, Pandora, and SiriusXM. Commercial FM would dominate, and there'd be no escaping the stupidity. Rumble and Bitchute would be gone, and all we'd have left is Mockingbird Media. The FCC would be weaponized to keep everyone else from being able to get on TV. Radio wouldn't fare much better, so pirate radio would become a huge thing. Anyone with a CB would become an information warrior. Signal jammers would become the new "fact checkers."
Libraries would explode with demand and public use, as they'd be the new hubs of information to compensate for the Internet going down forever. Every type of shady dealer would be there, along with honest ones. Viruses would be spread to machines through infected flash drives. Swappernetrers would become a reality. Police would be weaponized to harass swappernetters. Then, a new lab-made bioweapon would be unleashed, to shut libraries down. And bars, churches, any place that those of sound mind may congregate to discuss ways to topple these accursed globalist usurpers. After all: if you're meeting offline, it's harder to plant spies to monitor conversations.
The only advantage I can think of, is that the "you will own nothing" whack-a-doodles won't be able to hack us so easily to steal from us. They'd have to send physical armies to loot and pillage entire neighborhoods. It'd be like Viking raids all over again! And "every blade of grass" could be put to the test.
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It would probably be the single best thing to happen to society. We’re all connected but have never been more disconnected. The division, hatred, mental illnesses and lack of social development that comes from being perpetually online has done so much damage to our society.
I don’t have internet most of the time because I cut my phone line. I didn’t want to pay for phone service anymore😂😂😂😂💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭😭
And it was kind of boring at first. And then I learned how to write stories. My diary.
my future plans. My future to do lists. Learned how to budget and manage my spending. I’m even now writing down my dreams that I have every night. And even my favorite memories.there's also this thing called “Law of Attraction” “Manifesting things into your reality” or speaking things into existence. And writing those down is basically the same thing. So I write down my desires and visualize myself in that position. Also to remember them.
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I’ve also been doing more exercises and walking. Even running. I’ve been focusing on me more.You really notice. How asleep and gullible every else is. How obsessed and addicted they are to their phones. Or any attention they could get through a phone. 🤦🏻♀️
At this point every single person is addicted to texting and to TikTok. It’s unbelievable. 🤦🏻♀️
Obviously I do still have internet access. But not like I used to. At work I have no internet. And I still use my phone to basically keep writing more. Or make schedules. And look through my photo gallery. I still get to text people and keep in contact. But not AS MUCH. I still download music into my phone and take my phone with me to listen to my tunes. And specially I still make video and upload videos. And record videos. And take photos. And edit videos.
SO IM COMPLETELY FINE. AND ITS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME OLD DEAL. I ordered a GPS Navigation for $70. And I can’t still go where I want.
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And because of this decision I learned so much about dealing with my personal phone addiction. Or any addiction I had. When I go somewhere I always tell a friend or parents exactly where I’m going. And best of all this I’m saving $60 a month. What I was paying for my phone line.
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I've had this conversation before, as I've been around long enough to not rely on it. 😂
Although I think I would really struggle, because we all know how much easier things are with it now, how much faster things are, and the convenience it gives us.. going back to to a world where we don't have internet, not only would be extremely difficult for the world we live in now, but on the plus side it would give us a very structured, slower moving, having to learn to be patient world, again.
Things were so much simpler back then, and it's such a cliche to say, but it's true!!
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I tend to go "off grid" for a month each year. Even went without electricity and running water in a friends cabin for a few weeks a long while back.
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What would I masturbate to? Have you seen Victoria's secret magazines lately? There's no way I can go back to that. First, they stopped showing their nipples and now they have fat chicks. Not like normal fat chicks either... like the type of fat chicks you have to make sure isn't going through your refrigerator during parties type of fat chicks. I don't want anybody touching my cheesecake.
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Just today, I got the money to pay for the internet so they don't cut it off. However, I've come to realize that i don't NEED the internet. All i do with it is come here, look at youtube, look at twitter and post art/videos. I can do that at a barnes and noble or something. So when i'm on my own, I don't think I'll be wads of cash just have internet in my home
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This would absolutely disrupt my life. I have an online business and work online, so without internet it would be extremely difficult to do both...at least as easily and regardless of time, that I do now. I definitely would not be able to do one job and would have to I guess resort to doing a brick and mortar business for the other if there was absolutely no way the internet was coming back.
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I would be ok I wouldn't like it and would be annoyed that I couldn't look up anything I wanted to know from anyware but I'd just have to go to the library more I've lived without electronics completely before so not like I couldn't do it again I used to live in a Hogan which has dirt floors and no door for 6 months ps it was a bitch but could be done.
For the record I'm not like 85 I'm 22
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1. No more racists to make unfair generalizations about minorities.
2. No more women lamenting about how annoying and useless short men are all whilst praising women of varying sizes/body types.
3. No more men seeing women as a subhuman species unworthy of trust, respect, love or compassion.
4. No more alt-right propaganda.
5. No more SJW propaganda.
Oh wait.
People are still doing those things even without the internet.
Nevermind.
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If it happened after I got married, I'd be fine with it, if it happened before then. I'd probably never find a girlfriend. Online gaming is inferior to local co-op/vs gaming. And computers and software were better before internet. But online dating? thats far superior than the offline version.
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We are too independent on internet for it to not be effected. Want to look up a recipe? Google it. Want to listen to a song? Search on Spotify. Want to show a friend a picture? Just send it. Transfer money to a friend? 2 seconds on cash transfer app/internet bank.
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I do not live my life on line, and mainly use the internet as a research tool supplementing them the other sources I have , so if the internet went down or disappeared all together it would not be as catastrophic for me as it would be someone younger.
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Relieved, at it's inceptionthe internet was a fairly useful idea, but , in my opinion, it's morphed into a ridiculously bulky personal information gathering tool and more and more , I find myself unwilling to play.
We should not have to sign up or sign in to get the cost of a part for my car so now I come away empty handed ( by choice) because I don't need another account on some website, I just needed to know the price of a car part. -
I would lose the defining invention of my generation and that would be a big blow but humans are adaptable creatures.
Do you guys have any idea what it's like going from writing out rough drafts over and over in paper to suddenly being able to edit it in a word document? Being a millennial is something else.
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I talk to a lot of people online and if the internet went down forever, that would be a real bummer. Having to find new people to talk to who live near would have to be the new thing for most people I guess.
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I think it will at some point, or at least I wouldn't be surprised if it did. I would be fine. I'd need a short adjustment period, but I'd be fine after.
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Kinda want that to happen so it forces society to interact with each other again like human being’s, Like how the heck do you make friends outside of the workplace these days as an adult if you don’t drink or do drugs? Feels impossible tbh
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Just to be fair,
as long as the "internet went out forever" for ALL of us in the ENTIRE universe,
I'll actually be glad.
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It would be extremely hard for a while (Weeks? Months?). But then I will get used to not having it around. Back to TV, Computer, Newspapers, Books, all that stuff.
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I'm from a different century when people were raised to KNOW things - not to look them up.
If internet is off... then I will have a huge advantage over MANY others :D
Not being a saint, I'll take advantage of course 😜
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I'd need a few months to get used to it, but I grew up without internet. I'd just go back to watching TV and playing hard-copy video games, again. I feel bad for the Zoomers (under 25) crowd, though.
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Since I need it to contact my boyfriend overseas this would be a problem. Otherwise I might be somewhat delighted that it be gone.
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It is already long past the time to deal with the New World Order lunatics and their useful idiots.
Turing off the Internet, to prevent patriots organising and recruiting is part of the NWO plan.
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