Life without the internet.

[GabrielT]

So I just moved to a new place and I haven't decided if I can afford the internet yet. 22 days without easy to access internet have given rise to a few things.

 

I clean the house.

I am often bored and long for the internet.

And most of all I seem to be getting more stuff done than usual.

 

That reminds me that I need to get pictures of my motorcycle on here when I am done painting it and generally fixing it up.

 

The cheapest internet available to me is $40 a month. I am posting from the library.

[El_Capitan]

Lol, that must suck.

[SpeedCrazy]

He is right though. We had a 2 day power outage last week, or was it two weeks ago... anyway after i got done moping about not being able to game or tinker with my web design stuff i settled down and did an awful lot of work, would have taken me a couple of days to do it with power and internet but without, well i had nothing else to do.

[imm0rt41]

Without Internet I work on my cars...really, it just means I have to think more instead of looking up info on forums and stuff. I would hate it if the Internet went away forever because then I would be dumb as hell lol

[wevsspot]

That would mean having to pay for p*rn again.............................. Oh no.

[gotdamojo06]

I remember when I first bought my current house...man oh man!

 

I went about two weeks without the internet (didnt want to buy it) and was occasionally "borrowing it" from houses near me...the speeds that people had were soo slow!

 

It was a blessing however because I was able to get a bunch of stuff around the new house setup, like my TV and all the painting done and everything else. Most of the painting I did do before I actually moved in but there was a little left over after I decided to move my stuff in.

 

 

Ended up going with Comcast and its like 50$ a month for their best internet which give me up to 20Mbps download and does include basic...and I mean basic cable...like channels 2-14

[Guest_Jim_*]

Books FTW!

[Waco]

When without internet I tend to get a lot more done that I've been meaning to do - like projects, read books, etc.

[Deathmineral]

There's no way I could do it, I can however go without any TV, I never watch it as it is really.

[gotdamojo06]

There's no way I could do it, I can however go without any TV, I never watch it as it is really.

 

neither do I...only thing I use my TV for is watching movies be it on Netflix, DVD, or BluRay...

 

42" Plasma with surround sound beats the 30" with 2.1 speaker setup...oh and a comfy couch

[WhenKittensATK]

I would be even more unproductive without internet.

 

Perfect example is last Saturday. Cable line went out, so no internet or TV.

You know what I did?

1. Watched "Tucker and Dale vs Evil"
   
2. Watched some TV shows from HDD
   
3. Watched a CCENT video
   
4. Slept the rest of the day
   
5. Watched "Hung" Season 1 and half of Season 2 all night
   

 

I did one thing productive that entire day. Usually what I do everyday

[IVIYTH0S]

Sadly I always have internet (phone, or tethering my phone to desktop/laptop)

 

If you have a smartphone, I suggest tethering! Just if you're not sprint don't do serious downloading that will pop your 5GB crap cap.

 

 

I can control myself if I need to get something done, but I definitely have even greater motivation when there is NO temptation of internet.

 

There's no way I could do it, I can however go without any TV, I never watch it as it is really.

Yeah I really wished we'd cancel other TV, we have Netflix and I usually just output movies from my laptop. I never watch TV anymore, just USE the TV as a monitor.

 

I know my house wont have a house phone nor cable television