How long could you cope without the internet?

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A Day?
A Week?
A Month?
A Year?

Briefly read about Paul Miller on The Verge 'disconnecting' for a year in some sort of social experiment.

I'm not sure what he expects to gain during this year long absence from the internet considering he works for a tech blogging site but it got me thinking if I could disconnect.

Frankly its a big clear NO, I could & have for a week or so but thats if I was away on holiday where its a break from your normal everyday life, you relax, you read more.

To disconnect without anything changing dramatically in your life then it would be extremely hard. For someone like me who doesn't have a social life worth mentioning, or a busy career to focus on, the internet is my only tool to the outside world, it brings me entertainment, tv shows, movies and pictures of cats!...(not forgetting pr0n ;)).

I would clearly read more, I hardly read the news paper or watch the news because I get it that online. I'd have to call and talk direct to people instead of FB/MSN (...also no smartphone, just a simple txt/talk dumbphone :eek:), and I'd play all the single player games on my xbox I could afford to buy, listen to music more....but ultimately I think I'd cave after a week at the most if I was pushed to try it.

Now could you do it, disconnect for a year or would a week seem like a lifetime without the net?
 
I read that article as well Paul Miller will fail almost impossible to avoid it for a year unless you isolate yourself.

Which I guess is what you're doing anyway but not taking notice of it as much as you feel you're doing something at all times. I think I could cope for a week or so maybe even months but I'd need to be socializing at all those times for most of the day with friends/family/co-workers. Ideally a job which requires physical output from 6-12 hours a day and the rest of it social involvement.

Without those things happening I couldn't last a day.
 
If my lifestyle was changed to suit and I always had better things to do then it wouldn't be hard. But with my current lifestyle it would be impossible.
 
I've recently moved house and was nearly 4 weeks without any real form of Internet access.

For me, the Internet is pretty boring (saying that, I've spent all night on it :p) but the accessibility it provides is fantastic. Quite a few times I've been sat watching TV and wanted to quickly check something out, but couldn't... very frustrating.

It's quite scary to think that when I was a teenager, I didn't have the Internet and as such, didn't miss it. These days, I think a month without access is hard enough.
 
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MrViper said:
without the internet the art of fapping would be lost!
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The noble art of fapping was invented thousands of years before the Internet and will be practiced when the web is just a distant memory, and the whole of modern civilisation has collapsed. :D
 
Blue160 said:
The noble art of fapping was invented thousands of years before the Internet and will be practiced when the web is just a distant memory, and the whole of modern civilisation has collapsed. :D
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Not if she gets her way, though her name is not apt :D

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Long time me. I now live with no TV, Smartphone, PC, internet or games console. and i'm loving life.

the Internet reached its peak back in 1999.
 
Septym said:
The internet is slowly killing the social aspect of humans.
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This

I dont need the internet, it just just there, on demand, when it was 56k it was a lot different, it was there but it was a hassle and slow, Take me back to my youth, no mobile phone, no facebook, multiplayer gaming by going around to peoples houses and playing split screen :eek:

Also the rumours that the new xbox console will have need an internet connection to play a single player game, total joke, MONEY MONEY MONEY, if you are on the internet now, you have access to buy stuff and know someone with a CC, remember having to sign up to original xbox live with my dads credit card, you needed a CC on the account, even though it was pre-paid, back then.

If the internet went down tomorrow, I would miss it for about 2-3 weeks then life would resume!
 
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