if there is no internet what will happen
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I grew up in the pre internet age. Surprisingly enough everything still worked, but it took a lot longer to get information from A to B and researching was not so easy, you could be working late one evening and realise you need to look up something that isn’t in any of the books you have at hand, the local library has shut for the night and the bookshop has been shut since 5.30, you’re stuffed until the following day. Unless of course you’re trying to do your work on a Saturday evening in which case you were stuffed until Monday.
Buying things before the internet meant that you had what your local shops offered or you had to travel to the big towns or cities or for specialist items it was a case of phoning the specialist supplier you knew of or the good old business phone book the Yellow pages which only had businesses from within your directory area.
Learning new skills without YouTube meant going to an evening class or distance learning. and listening to music was either the radio or buying the record. Being told off and sent to your room by your parents was a punishment (well it would have been if I didn’t enjoy reading so much) there was no going on a games consul and playing war games with your school friend who lives miles away across town.
Skype, wow in my younger days a phone call to relatives half way around the world was a feat of achievement that meant arranging it through your local telephone operator there was a bit of lag between them talking and you hearing what they said and connections were very temperamental, quite often loosing the call part way through and it was fairly expensive. Now not only can you talk to Uncle Bert you can see how he’s doing face to face.
One of the down sides of the internet and mobile phone age I find very worrying is the growing number of young children that are now showing signs of attachment disorder because of the lack of interaction between parent and babies/young children because mum is on the smart phone checking out what all her friends are doing on social media, texting and talking for hours, Dad has to have his daily dose of video games. But never mind as soon as the child is old enough to push the right buttons they will be resisting all attempts to go anywhere where there is no wifi as that would be extremely awkward having to learn to socialise and interact with real people. I’ve been a foster carer a long time I have read the reports and seen it in the children we’ve looked after.
Nearly forgot pornography. In the good old bad old days before internet it was books and magazines. There were films about but you needed the means to view them. Then VHS arrived it got a bit easier for young boys to get their hands on some. Now the porn industry has never had it so easy to get their films out there. There are parental controls but for the young today that have grown up with IT and are taught it as part of their education there are usually a few tricks they can pick up to get round most blocks to accessing porn.
Overall the advent of the internet age has opened so many doors to the next generation that my generation would never have imagined or thought possible, it is certainly a wonderful tool that has made the world a lot more integrated. When I was at school in the 1960s I joined a penpal club and had 3 or 4 children of my age from other countries and we would write letters to each other, sadly for one reason or other we lost contact. Now I have internet friends from lots of countries around the globe and as it’s free (not counting broadband fees etc) it’s not going to cost postage just to say no more than “Hi, How are you” which with the old airmail paper days would have been a bit of a waste of paper and postage not only that I don’t have to wait 3 weeks to get a letter back with “Yea I’m good. How are you?” I get a reply almost instantaneous.
I’ve lived in a non internet time and with the internet. I can live without it without going into withdrawal and I’m comfortable with it
Buying things before the internet meant that you had what your local shops offered or you had to travel to the big towns or cities or for specialist items it was a case of phoning the specialist supplier you knew of or the good old business phone book the Yellow pages which only had businesses from within your directory area.
Learning new skills without YouTube meant going to an evening class or distance learning. and listening to music was either the radio or buying the record. Being told off and sent to your room by your parents was a punishment (well it would have been if I didn’t enjoy reading so much) there was no going on a games consul and playing war games with your school friend who lives miles away across town.
Skype, wow in my younger days a phone call to relatives half way around the world was a feat of achievement that meant arranging it through your local telephone operator there was a bit of lag between them talking and you hearing what they said and connections were very temperamental, quite often loosing the call part way through and it was fairly expensive. Now not only can you talk to Uncle Bert you can see how he’s doing face to face.
One of the down sides of the internet and mobile phone age I find very worrying is the growing number of young children that are now showing signs of attachment disorder because of the lack of interaction between parent and babies/young children because mum is on the smart phone checking out what all her friends are doing on social media, texting and talking for hours, Dad has to have his daily dose of video games. But never mind as soon as the child is old enough to push the right buttons they will be resisting all attempts to go anywhere where there is no wifi as that would be extremely awkward having to learn to socialise and interact with real people. I’ve been a foster carer a long time I have read the reports and seen it in the children we’ve looked after.
Nearly forgot pornography. In the good old bad old days before internet it was books and magazines. There were films about but you needed the means to view them. Then VHS arrived it got a bit easier for young boys to get their hands on some. Now the porn industry has never had it so easy to get their films out there. There are parental controls but for the young today that have grown up with IT and are taught it as part of their education there are usually a few tricks they can pick up to get round most blocks to accessing porn.
Overall the advent of the internet age has opened so many doors to the next generation that my generation would never have imagined or thought possible, it is certainly a wonderful tool that has made the world a lot more integrated. When I was at school in the 1960s I joined a penpal club and had 3 or 4 children of my age from other countries and we would write letters to each other, sadly for one reason or other we lost contact. Now I have internet friends from lots of countries around the globe and as it’s free (not counting broadband fees etc) it’s not going to cost postage just to say no more than “Hi, How are you” which with the old airmail paper days would have been a bit of a waste of paper and postage not only that I don’t have to wait 3 weeks to get a letter back with “Yea I’m good. How are you?” I get a reply almost instantaneous.
I’ve lived in a non internet time and with the internet. I can live without it without going into withdrawal and I’m comfortable with it
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. With no internet that means many services will stop working. Some things affected by no internet would be use of credit cards, electronic devices, airport systems and more services resulting in a catastrophe.
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