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TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Yup, since there won't be anymore Twitter/Facebook 
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Yep. Did it before, do it again.
Bladders
Twats everywhere
No, not now.
Wouldn't mind life before mobile phones though.
Wouldn't mind life before mobile phones though.
CorgiRegisteredFriend
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Think there should be Internet free areas such as restaurants. Can't stand seeing kids at the table on I pads etc rather than socialising properly and talking!
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
- 10,732
That is an excellent idea. Unfortunately the horse has bolted - free wifi is now a selling point that entices more people in.
As for the original question...as some have intimated, the vast majority of humankind has existed without the internet. There would be no problem if it had never existed. But it does, and I like it.
One hot tub one ambition
Active member
No NSC?
Hampster Gull
New member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,462
Lets do it
CorgiRegisteredFriend
Well-known member
Watched This is England 90 and characters arguing about who was going to answer the phone- as in the landline. Quite refreshing.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
It is invaluable for work, and contacting colleagues instantly around the world (Ms Lync / email / video conferencing) however socially and at home I am aware that I spend an unhealthy amount of time procrastinating, watching pointless videos and reading/replying to pointless threads. Oh!
Shirty
Daring to Zlatan
I genuinely believe my son would rather have the water supply cut off than the Internet.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,297
internet or WWW? you know the difference, right?
either way working in IT, no couldnt do without it. at home, times i wish i could, its a massive distraction or excuse not to get stuff done. but then so are games, TV, even books when one thinks about it.
either way working in IT, no couldnt do without it. at home, times i wish i could, its a massive distraction or excuse not to get stuff done. but then so are games, TV, even books when one thinks about it.
Pogue Mahone
Well-known member
- Apr 30, 2011
- 10,732
Yeah, the internet is in a box.
Prince Monolulu
Everything in Moderation
Dunno about me, but BG....that's another story.
This
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
- 12,309
I was at Shambala a few weeks ago and, it being a festival, I decided not to take my smartphone. The battery wouldn't last, it might've gotten damaged/nicked etc. Decided to buy myself an old Nokia brick type phone. It had SMS and call capability. Nothing else. Well, Snake but that was it.
I was in that field for four days without internet access and it was bloody marvellous. No flicking around websites for new things to read, no emails, notifications on Twitter etc etc.
Apart from when I'm at work the internet is really just a distraction. Tabbing through open web pages has become the new channel surfing.
There's more knowledge available to people thanks to the internet than ever before and we use it look at cats and laugh, repeatedly, at the video of Reading fans celebrating 7th.
I was in that field for four days without internet access and it was bloody marvellous. No flicking around websites for new things to read, no emails, notifications on Twitter etc etc.
Apart from when I'm at work the internet is really just a distraction. Tabbing through open web pages has become the new channel surfing.
There's more knowledge available to people thanks to the internet than ever before and we use it look at cats and laugh, repeatedly, at the video of Reading fans celebrating 7th.
OzMike
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Yep, but would have to use the phone a lot for work.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
When I used to walk to work in Brighton, I used to listen to the radio on the way in. I can distinctly remember listening to news reports about an "Information Super Highway" that had been invented, that connected computers up around the world, and when it was rolled out it would completely change the world as we knew it.
I thought it was bollocks.
I thought it was bollocks.
Leyton Gull
Banned
- Sep 14, 2015
- 411
never had a iPhone, smart phone or iPad. I know I'm evil but I'm kind of hoping they/you go blind and/or get run over/or develop a major serious RSI to fingers and thumb.