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How long could you go without the internet?

How long could you go without the internet?


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Such Irony

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LOL. People in your profession did not require the internet in the recent past.

I'm a librarian and virtually all the research I do to help people is all found online. We still have print reference sources but I rarely use them. Someone needs directions to somewhere? I head right to MapQuest. Sometimes I forget that there's road maps right behind me.
 

Saslou

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I do have moments where i'm not online for a day or two but i'm busy elsewhere.

I enjoy the flexibility that comes with the internet. i like my Online banking, being invisible on FB, if i want to talk via IM then it's there, downloading music, checking out random facts and bookmarking pages.

I like to keep my options open. I think after a week i'd be going through the withdrawals.

When i go on holiday this month, the place has free wifi and i'm taking my netbook.

EDIT - How sad.
 

Flight

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forget "a day" i go antsy if my internet is down for longer than like 4 hours in a power outage.
 

ceecee

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Sometimes I forget that there's road maps right behind me.


Now this is where I draw the line personally. I had a GPS for a total of 3 days. I couldn't stand it. It got downright Nazi lippy when I didn't go the way it wanted. As long as I have a map, I'm good to go.
 

Octarine

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I had a GPS for a total of 3 days..

You know, it is possible to use a GPS without the vocal navigation (which never tells you the way you'd go if you actually looked at a map).
 

ceecee

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You know, it is possible to use a GPS without the vocal navigation (which never tells you the way you'd go if you actually looked at a map).

Yes I know. I don't care for the entire concept. I only got it because my ENFJ was worried I couldn't find my way around in a totally new place and this would make it easier.
 

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Well, realistically, not long, seeing as it's required for my job and all systems are internet-based.

Hypothetically, I could easily go several weeks if I were traveling or something. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the internet. For me, being away from the internet is freeing and wonderful... I love it. Just letting go of all of that, and.. gasp.. actually reading a book, or doing things away from a computer. (Of course this is also coming from someone who has always philosophically been rather anti-technology, in some respects. In many ways, the internet has made things immensely easier, and I love it as far as being able to make purchases / bank without having to go anywhere. I also :wubbie: it for emailing my friends - as the written word is far, far preferable to me over the verbal. BUT. The internet has also complicated various other things, and I definitely resent it - my need to attach myself to a computer for significant portions of my life - in many ways too.)
 

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I'd be fine. It would only be a hardship if only I coudn't get on the internet and everyone else could.
 

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When I was in prison four years ago, I had no internet access for six months although I did have access to an email program. That made it an updated letter writing system.
When I was recently in Ecuador, I had no internet access at all for two weeks. I was happy with a sketchbook and a journal and my camera. Plus I was kept really busy working outside in an organic reforestation project.
 

uncommonentity

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Probably suprising to hear from an INTJ that he could indefinitley live without the internet but I'd just find something better to do with my time. Like work-out all day or something. There'd still be plenty of things to do on a computer with no internet.
 

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I need internet for brain stimulation and looking into things I can't or wouldn't want to physically. Even when I'm on vacation overseas, I like to stop in at internet cafes to check my email, etc. In the past I've also downloaded a lot of [not porn, get your heads out of the gutter!] movies, tv shows, Hulu, etc. on my 'puter, as much as I watch cable. I also need the net to download music [legally]. Sometimes I will look something up online and start lily-padding topics until I am reading about something that seems completely unrelated to the first topic. When I was kid, pre-internet days (geez, totally ageing myself here) I LOVED my physical encyclopedia collection and thick books with stories and visiting the library. So the nerd in me just loves the 'net, it's like a natural progression... I don't think the internet or Kindles are *replacements* for the physical books and libraries, but they are a millennial counterpart.
 

entropie

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Well most of my friends I have on the internet so it would suck going without it somehow, but if I lets assume would have all my friends in range and didnt have internet, I'ld prolly have a lot of gadgets. For instannce I like to know the weather, at least 3 times a day in summers I am watching the weather waiting for a nice thunderstorm. I am intrested in the physical layer of airmass movement and heat convection, it's like a huge dynamic clockwork which sparkles my intrest. If I wouldnt have the internet to check on the weather, I'ld prolly have a lot of tools at hand, like a small weather station at home (which I'll have despite the internet sonner or later :) ).

But that aint everything, I like to be informed and to know whats going on around me. Without the internet I'ld prolly dig deeper into radio communication or some sorts of communication to get the latest news. Since I am a person who loves to chatter, these news will be shared and will travel. So even without internet, a new form like an internet soon will be born.

I dunno, you'll never be able to stop things like that, I could write an whole essay on this ..
 

Patches

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I can't vote in your poll options, because it doesn't include any values less than 1 day.


Sheesh. My internet goes down for 3 minutes and I start hyperventilating.
 

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Not very long, especially since I've made friends here... :wub:
 

strychnine

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I can't vote in your poll options, because it doesn't include any values less than 1 day.


Sheesh. My internet goes down for 3 minutes and I start hyperventilating.

I agree, and also can't vote lol. It's so sad. I have one hour lectures and start getting must-get-on-internet urges like 15 minutes in. Nothing else in life is sufficiently stimulating, it seems.
 
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Asterion

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I could definitely go without the internet... but, it is required at my university that I check my emails and get information off of lecturers from their website, so the only way I could go without is if they went without and gave me all of the info by hand. I guess, if it's only my household internet, I could just use their computers. I would use it for wikipedia... but there's books for that, that are actually a million times more reliable and more in depth, wiki is just easier :p
 

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Technically, I could go without the internet indefinitely. I just wouldn't want to. The internet is an extremely useful tool.
 

Chloe

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I am an internet addict, but I could go without internet forever. I would easily switch, and within a week it wouldnt matter anymore. I think my life would become much better actually. Though I dont know where would I get my information fix from, but I guess as other people would, if whole internet went down.
 
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