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Ask HN: What would you do if there was no Internet?
Tought question?
Actually, my main interest is to know what you
guys do while not coding or hacking the world.
For instance, I'm a volunteer firefighter and enjoy doing any kind of sports.
- onan_barbarian 16y agoBack to magazines.
- jawngee 16y agoWriting or photography.
- chaosdesigner 16y agoI second that. Plus I would learn how to make music, party a lot and travel even more.
- vyrotek 16y agoCrap, can I borrow someone's hobby?
- niico 16y agoHeh, that's what I mean... Do you guys have a B or C plan? :P
- abalashov 16y agoPhilosophy.
- rick_2047 16y agoEven though if there would have been no internet it won't effect my discipline (electrical engineering) directly, I wouldn't be this smart. I would have been an average kid succumbing to peer pressure and taking up the hottest discipline I can get from my <insert standardized test name here> score.
- MisterWebz 16y agoPhilosophy and sports.
- alexiocowabunga 16y agoMaybe I would actually start getting some serious work done
- AmberShah 16y agoLife would go on. I'd spend more time with my son. Pretty sad, but true.
- stiggz 16y agoInvent the internet.
- runjake 16y agoWrite more code, visit more BBSes, garden more. As I get older (late 30s), I'm finding Internet culture more alien and less appealing to my demographic, so I've been spending less and less time on it. Outside of work, I'm looking at about 5 minutes per day, unless I'm online gaming, but then its just to game, not chat with other players. I read a lot of online articles (Wired Danger Room++), I scan through feeds, find an article and Instapaper them for offline reading. I don't feel like I'm really missing anything. Any information important enough will eventually get to me.
- oziumjinx 16y agoTour guide for white water rafting or mountain biking somewhere around the Grand Canyon
- greatfog 16y agoIf there were no internet, I would subscribe to magazines and visit the library.
- pascalchristian 16y agoComplain, then call my ISP repeatedly :P
- nitefly 16y agoReading, rock climbing, enjoying the outdoors, getting exercise, spending time with my family. If there were no Internet because the Internet didn't exist, the world would be very different and maybe I'd have stuck around school for another degree helping people dream it up. :) If there were no Internet because I were stranded somewhere with no Internet, I'd find a way to get the hell out of there.
- owkaye 16y agoDo more boat designing, building and sailing.
- fezzl 16y agoInvent it.