Could You Live Without The Internet?

By Steve Spalding August 14th, 2008
Under: Polls, Questions

Last week Ophelia posed a picture of a world in which the Internet didn’t exist, what I want to know is whether this is a world that you could actually live in. Many of us have jobs that are bolstered by the web, and a many more of us have jobs that could not exist without it.

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Chris

The Internet plays I huge role in my life now, but if it was non existent I would find something else to do. :-) But because it is here I live in a browser now http://theperfectbalance.blogspot.com/2008/08/l...

Great thought though.

Richard

Well, I love internet because internet had a big part of my life to communicate with my Friends and Family. And also I used internet in my work.

Money Talks

NO, I realized it when i got my net off for 6 days, Those were the hardest days.

New to Programming

No way, I moved house recently and had no internet for about a week.
It was the most boring week ever. Sad huh.

amaterashu

ummm.. that's hard question..
I can live without internet before.. but now, I think, I still can do it
but not forever..
I love internet, and now I have my first personal blog. come and visit me ^_^

http://shwoomp.com

MaggyYoung

I guess if there were no internet you'd get something like withdrawal, but that it would go after a time. Main problem is that apart from work & fun & socialising, it's also so damned useful. Google is such a big source of ready info on everything that it couldn't have been imagined before. What I'd miss most is being able to simply look things up on Goog.

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August 14, 2008 at 8:06 pm Mike Fruchter

Absolutely NO!
August 14, 2008 at 8:09 pm Daynah

Nope! I wouldn't have a job. Yikes!
August 14, 2008 at 8:12 pm Glenn Batuyong

Yes, but it wouldn't called "life" ...I'd just exist.
August 14, 2008 at 8:15 pm Steve Spalding

Yea, that's a great point. I wonder how many jobs Social Media has created. Anyone have any stats?
August 14, 2008 at 8:16 pm Bill Sanders

I'm with Daynah - and I really don't want to go back to civil engineering!
August 14, 2008 at 8:29 pm Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I'd also have no job, although I won't work in social media.
August 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm Amber aka SDA

I'd have no hobby.
August 14, 2008 at 9:03 pm RudĩϐЯaЯïaȵ

I'd have a job, but I wouldn't much like it! The card catalog would be back on cards, and all the info would be locked in silos! BORING! And, we'd just have to reinvent the internet all over again....
August 14, 2008 at 9:08 pm Captain Integrity

That's like asking if I could live without a telephone or electricity or running water. The answer is: yes, but not happily.
August 14, 2008 at 9:08 pm Heidi Blanton-Hansen

no
August 14, 2008 at 9:29 pm Eric @ CS Techcast

back to buying tons of CD-ROMs. Cinemania FTW
August 14, 2008 at 9:49 pm Steve Spalding

I'd have to learn how to drag and drop physical mail.

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