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Off grid is typically defined based on things that help you survive. Water, electricity, and gas help you survive. Internet doesn't.
by heliodor 4y ago
Off grid is typically defined based on things that help you survive. Water, electricity, and gas help you survive. Internet doesn't.
- jillesvangurp 4y ago"Off grid" quite literally refers to the notion of not being connected to a grid. Mostly that means the electrical grid but people also include other utilities like gas, sewage, and phone/internet. All of which involve some kind of physical infrastructure that you are cut off when going "off grid". Wireless internet was not an option until fairly recently. Now it is. And you can generate your own electricity too. Not making this up by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid I get that a lot of people would love it to mean living like hermit in some hut in the middle of nowhere without a lot of comfort. That's a choice you can make of course and more power too you if you do. But for most of the rest of us, being off grid and having working internet are no longer mutually exclusive.