i may be forced to kill myself? the internet is my life lol. i have no clue what i would do without it. life woudl be so boring and uneventfull
just hink about it no games no xbox live no trap17 no online shopping no wikipedia no nothing life would be pointless to me lol i would be so bored id go emo or somthing

LOVE THE PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Simply put, if there was no internet, my phone bill would sky rocket. Im usually using the phone and some kind of IM at the same time. Not to mention E-Mail. In order for me to get in contact with all of my friends, I would have to use the phone or... *gulp*... write them a letter

Of course ALL of us wouldn't be able to use Trap 17...

Also, reports for school would be a very daunting task. I'd have to rely on books for ALL of my citations. The internet is really (in my opinion), the central hub for all kinds of information.
You really take the internet for granted sometimes... now that we have it, we can't really imagine
life without it!

If no internet.. i just cant imagine it now for i got addicted to many things in the web.
But otherwise i will ave more time to spend on other things, play... etc.

But what if i did not know www at all.. not a problem.

Also if there is no internet, i will be assured that nothing is happening online.. so need not worry about it and will be happy.
Willl be satisfied with pc games and missing all the online games.

I have sort of a different take on this type of thing.

As groups of people, societies, cultures, and the world becomes ever more complex and sophisticated (and I'm using the word in the positive, and not the negative sense) pressures build within it, both overt, and sub-conscious, to express latent and previously unexploited capabilities and talents.

That is as things grow they naturally develop new capabilities and abilities to match their progressive momentum. So if the personal computer had not been invented (and the public internet, which is what we're really talking about, not blossomed as a result of that) and the internet not arisen, then something very like it would have. That is it is inevitable that a certain level of complexity will produce or give birth to those technologies which will either maintain that level of complexity, or exceed it. I call this part of the Impetus of God Technology, which is a proposition that all higher technologies imitate capabilities traditionally ascribed to God, but also that all higher technologies (be they physical, communicative, computational, electronic, energy-based, information based, biological, industrial/manufacturing/replicational, etc.) have a built in impetus towards growth and an innate means and method of evolving, given the limitations and strictures of the imaginations (and physical capabilities, both in raw materials and in personal nature) of those who will produce such technologies. In other words at some point God technology will trigger an impetus towards an evolution of ever more capable God technologies, given whatever the nature of the present environment, and that evolution will gain more sophisticated expression which demands the development of new technologies as it evolves. Start the process and it cannot but continue to progress in order to assure it's own progress, or put another way, the pressure to exploit current capabilities always assures that by such exploitation future capabilities will be necessarily gained, even when unlooked for or unanticipated. Or more simply every advance creates new problems and by doing so that advance assures future advancement to solve the problems it created by attempting to solve other problems. God technology works that way, it gives birth to a thing which solves a problem and that thing creates new problems in relation to the problem it solves and that causes new advancements by exploiting and expanding the cycle of both potential problems and potential solutions.

So if I were not using this technology, I would be using whatever technology were available which would be parallel in function and capacity, though not necessarily exactly the same in capability or method. In other words if the PC, or networked computer or the internet did not exist as currently construed then I would be using whatever would have arisen in their absence which was a successor to the manual typewriter (which was simply a Personal version of the old style impression printing press, just a PPP, instead of a PC), and the electronic typewriter (which was a further advance upon the personal printing press, just electrified, and with primitive computing functions for formatting - and like you, I used both by the way, manual and electronic typewriters before moving on to primitive PCs and printers).

But that's another thing about God technology. It is by nature dispersible. That is as it grows in sophistication beyond a certain point (in contrast to ancient and medieval technology, which could be extremely sophisticated but tended to not be mass produced or distributed - at first anyway) it looks for a way to disseminate itself widely, to become personalized (and eventually it will look for a way to become "individualized" as well) and to distribute itself among the largest number of users and within the biggest field of operation possible.

It has a natural impetus to evolve, like a biological organism, and it has a natural impetus to spread itself outwards and infiltrate every possible organism and environment which it can, also like a biological organism. As a matter of fact all modern sophisticated technology is simply imitating biology, the computer the brain and mind and hand of man, the television (to see from afar) the eye and mouth, the radio the ear and mouth, the telephone (the voice from afar) the ear and mouth the car the mobile capacities, and so forth and so on, and so technology also imitates the evolutionary (I am not speaking of Darwinian evolution, which is primitive and short sighted, but I mean real evolution, the natural tendency and desire to gain real advantage and real improvement over a vast array of disciplines; biological, mental, psychological, spiritual, social, religious, artistic, scientific, communicative, etc.) impetus of biological organisms, which in turn imitate God's advantages.

So if not the car, then whatever like it would have arisen, and if not the internet, then whatever like it would have arisen.

This doesn't mean I'm naive about the real limitations of whatever technology currently exists, or may ever exist, I'm very skeptical of the idea that many modern people have that the Internet is some amazing Ubertechnologie which will revolutionize the world and solve all of mankind's problems, but it does mean that whatever it really is, or whatever might have arisen in its place, or whatever superior technology will bury or replace it, I think people should exploit them fully and in the best possible way for both personal and group advantage.

So I suspect that you too would have been exploiting whatever had arisen instead in the best way you could figure out to do so.
And that's just the way it should be, in my opinion.

It would suck horribly... I do so much stuff on it.... man.... damn that would blow..... but I suppose I would get over it...

No net?
for us older people, we would just watch TV or spend time with the family and friends.
As for the younger? I would hope that they would do something that I was tought to do when bored. Pick up a book and read.
True you can get books and even movies in the net. but nothing can beat just sitting back and reading and relaxing.

Without the Internet, I'd probably be making paintings or sketches. I'm okay at sketching.

Of course, if it were a question of whether the Internet was shut down suddenly and for good, I'd bet that a lot of people would be on the streets begging for cash, because the stock markets vaporized and there are no proven records of anything, so they can't claim stuff. Also, Bill Gates would be out of a job.

This post has been edited by tricky77puzzle: Apr 5 2008, 09:02 PM

Well I would disagree with you on that part. That Bill Gates would be o0ut of job because of seeral facts. Microsoft existed before internet or before it was such widely known thing. And currently if you look on the buisness that internet makes on the Microsoft it would not influence it that much since most of their profit comes from elsewhere that is from the retail sales of the software products developer kits and everything else microsoft has to offer.

The point is that if company doesn't make so much profit online it wouldn't be destroyed moreover I would like to note to everyone that giant like google would probably die in an instance when internet would be destroyed.

So this is from me for now. And one mroe thing Bill Gates is out of job already