Author Topic: If the internet suddenly ceased to exist... (Read 7092 times)

Tatsujin · « **Reply #20 on:** April 03, 2009, 10:03:57 AM »

............ I'd cease mylife, probably.

Tsunamu · « **Reply #21 on:** April 03, 2009, 10:55:38 AM »

I'd miss downloading anime, manga and music since there's no channels or anything like it here. I'd be a little disappointed in the "no more MMO" thing too

; Ah, and getting information has to be done the hard way again too T.T
I guess I'd miss some friends, but meh, we still got cellphones at this time of age so if internet disappeared, things like that'd ought to get cheaper.

So then I'd work my ass off to get school and a job in Japan... well, I'm already trying to do that but no luck. Why is Kanji so difficult to remember ;-;

moonlight · « **Reply #22 on:** April 03, 2009, 03:05:16 PM »

Quote from: Tsunamu on April 03, 2009, 10:55:38 AM

I'd miss downloading anime, manga and music since there's no channels or anything like it here. I'd be a little disappointed in the "no more MMO" thing too ; Ah, and getting information has to be done the hard way again too T.T
I guess I'd miss some friends, but meh, we still got cellphones at this time of age so if internet disappeared, things like that'd ought to get cheaper.

So then I'd work my ass off to get school and a job in Japan... well, I'm already trying to do that but no luck. Why is Kanji so difficult to remember ;-;

>_> I find remembering kanji's easier than remembering people's names and faces... ...

Anyway, back on topic. No internet?!!! I would probably stop studying... Get some shitty job, do a lot of sports and going out. Recently I found out that maid cafés are REALLY GREAT!!!! when you're in Japen, you must visit LittleBSD and Nagome

geoffreak · « **Reply #23 on:** April 03, 2009, 03:43:25 PM »

I'd move to Japan. Nothin' here to do anymore.

fohfoh · « **Reply #24 on:** April 03, 2009, 04:47:17 PM »

Actually, when I was in certain parts of asia, I never had internet while I was traveling there. During that time, I actually worked out (basic stuff like push up and sit ups) and I bought books to read. I also used time to learn Japanese and Korean and actually increased my vocabulary a shitload. But now I've forgotten it all.

SirSkyRider · « **Reply #25 on:** April 03, 2009, 05:07:46 PM »

But not using the internet for some time is actually not a bad idea. I sometimes take some days (maybe even weeks) where I don't use a PC or any other piece of digital technology except CDs and DVDs. I empty all of my handheld's batteries, my consoles are put away and my iPod disappears into a drawer. I use my cam occasionally, but I don't modify pictures on it. I write using pen and paper.

It has a strange effect on the people around you, but it is really comforting and less stressful.

Wizzy123 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 04, 2009, 04:52:12 AM »

Well since the internet is Xbox Live that kinda kills my main source of entertainment and disrupts all my daily activities on alot of levels $:-\$
Not to mention if your job involves the internet you will literally become a bum and unemployed. I think I would have serious withdrawal issues for about a month due to the shock of it all. To recover I guess I'll start bowling again....or something.

The next thread should be called what if food had to be rationed daily? You could no longer Splurged at the grocery shop and spend 200 dollars on crap lol. The world food supplies dwindling daily....what a horrible reality that would be.

voltekka · « **Reply #27 on:** April 04, 2009, 10:19:08 AM »

I'd have to change majors. Comp Sci with no internet just wouldn't be fun anymore I don't think. Well, at the very least, it would remove a lot of the fun from it.

Keevtara · « **Reply #28 on:** April 04, 2009, 10:26:48 PM »

I would watch the shows I've downloaded, then go back to reading books.

BakaBT · « **Reply #29 on:** April 05, 2009, 07:33:35 AM »

well id want a refund on my xbox life subscription and id probably stop my isp money!

i reckon i'd survive ok. anyone seen that episode of south park about the internet going down?

http://southpark1206.blogspot.com/ < good times!

Killbasas · « **Reply #30 on:** April 05, 2009, 08:38:04 AM »

Quote from: Box on April 05, 2009, 07:33:35 AM

well id want a refund on my xbox life subscription and id probably stop my isp money!

i reckon i'd survive ok. anyone seen that episode of south park about the internet going down?

http://southpark1206.blogspot.com/ < good times!

Randy Marsh reference?

Anywho, first I would go freaking out, then hiperventilation... Then go outside, read a book, I'd survive, plus saved a ton of money from my isp

agbaba · « **Reply #31 on:** April 05, 2009, 09:50:12 AM »

.... holy shit the world is so massive and inaccesible again

Would really miss box. Would probably mean no more anime

(too terrible to imagine)

ray1301 · « **Reply #32 on:** April 08, 2009, 12:15:55 AM »

Quote from: iindigo on April 03, 2009, 12:07:17 AM

...how would you react? What part of it would you miss the most?

OOo I have the best answer for this, it's obvious, if the internet ceased to exist! Then! you wouldn't do anything about it, why? Because since it ceases to exists that would mean no traces of it would remain i.e. memories of it. So you would just continue life as if it were never around.

Now if you said, if the internet one day was completely stopped, now that would be different from it never existing.

agbaba · « **Reply #33 on:** April 08, 2009, 06:37:57 AM »

Quote from: ray1301 on April 08, 2009, 12:15:55 AM

Quote from: iindigo on April 03, 2009, 12:07:17 AM
...how would you react? What part of it would you miss the most?

OOo I have the best answer for this, it's obvious, if the internet ceased to exist! Then! you wouldn't do anything about it, why? Because since it ceases to exists that would mean no traces of it would remain i.e. memories of it. So you would just continue life as if it were never around.

Now if you said, if the internet one day was completely stopped, now that would be different from it never existing.

lol @ loophole
internet didn't really exist in my world until i was about 11 and i guess life was pretty good when i was 11 so perhaps it won't be so bad.

wakatabaka · « **Reply #34 on:** April 09, 2009, 01:44:25 AM »

@ loophole:
I would be frantically screaming over and over... "It's gone! IT'S ALL GONE! ALL OF IT IS GONE"
I'd cry. I'd have tantrums. I'd rip sheets of blank lined paper up in RAGE.

and then... just then... someone would ask me what went and gone...
and I would not answer... for I could not utter what it was that disappeared.

Then I'd live as if I would below.
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@if it stopped:
I would be living as an average teenager who was in the 70's or 80's (when the public pretty much had no internet) but with today's technology at hand.
The world would cease to be "small" and it would take way longer for information to spread all over the place.

billlanam · « **Reply #35 on:** April 09, 2009, 09:19:51 AM »

I would just help recreate it, and hopefully make a lot of money in the process.

mgz · « **Reply #36 on:** April 09, 2009, 06:09:07 PM »

ide create the internet again, make billions, then use that to license anime and buy a tv station that simulcasts via the web and play subbed anime unedited 24/7 with commercials though

bcr123 · « **Reply #37 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:23:24 PM »

I'd get even more bored at work.

vuzedome · « **Reply #38 on:** April 10, 2009, 03:29:29 AM »

You're asking me to leave my room? Oh gosh! This is not happening.

queenmetroid · « **Reply #39 on:** April 10, 2009, 03:53:20 AM »

I'd miss it mainly because it's a convenient tool for knowledge. It'd be harder to fix computers, that's for sure. And my English essays would fall flat...