Live Stoner Chat How has the internet changed your life?

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another random question from tha Joker, This is more for the older members who remember the days of old, before the world wide web or guys who remember when the net first started takeing off.... next part of the question is how much of a shock would it be if one day you woke up and it was gone?
By 'gone" i mean "bye bye" "outta here" "never to return", what if someone took down the virtual "frae train" known as the internet?

 

[AutoMan]

The internet has opened up a world of knowledge for those who seek......a playground for those who want to play....a perfect diversion for those who wish it.......I remember computers becoming a tool for managing my business in the early 80's, and how cell phone changed our availabilities to others, good and bad!
We should all pass the hat and donate to Al Gore for INVENTING the internet.....LOL
Hey Budda, I also visit family in Alabama...thought I saw someone hitting a MFLB driving down I65....was it you??? LOL

 

[Clyde]

Internet has totally changed my life and for the better. I work from home now and spend most of the day at the computer. I work for organisations all around the world - they send some work by email and then text me to let me know it's waiting. I do the work and send it back. I get paid via Internet banking too. I can work in my pyjammas with a doobie in my hand (though I usually try to hold off on the doob until I've done the work).

If tomorrow there was no Internet? Well, I guess I would go back to what I did for 25 years up until I started my on-line business last year... travelling the world working for universities and other educational institutions. That wasn't bad at all, I can tell you. I saw some wonderful places and met some lovely people. I wouldn't have met my wife if it wasn't for that lifestyle. I only stopped because I'm at the age now where I want to settle down and chill a little. I feel the time zones more when I travel now and an uncomfortable bed leaves me sore the next day.

I'm just mentioning the specifically work-related impact the Internet has had on me, but here I am, sitting chatting to people all over the world on AFN - couldn't have done that a few years back. And all those plant pots and lights and plant food I got off the Internet? And all the information on how to use them? And seeds to!

 

[Muddy]

I'm a dinosaur as well. I got my first exposure to computers in 1974 via photo typesetting equipment used in printing. We were taking in data from dedicated word processors via 1200 baud modems with accoustic couplers and converting it to typeset output. I was writing the programs that took the word processor commands and changed them to typesetter commands. A far cry from today's technology.

If the internet were gone tomorrow probably the biggest impact it would have on me would be that I would have to go back to the library again to do research and back to the mall to buy my clothes. I love that I can find shoes for my short, fat feet without having to go to half a dozen stores and even then having maybe 2 styles to pick from.

 

[La Buena Hierba]

aaaaaaahhhh the days of old, remember the days before internet ,lol ( i look old now like you guy's not?)

but now thise days

 

[JM]

ROFL @ LBH!

well lets see... intrnet has changed very facet of my life mostly in good ways...

I learned computers when i was a kid... my dad worked for a major corp here in that industry... was exposed to the very first home terminals... personal computers etc etc.... when i was in junior high and high school had my own BBS I built with 2 dedicated phone lines.... at first i was annoyed with the internet for making my hard work obsolete! lol

but soon realized its power and went with it.... from there on out... research has been DRASTICALLY accelerated as well as reliability and controls for cropping, insect controls, etc etc. not too mention the spinoff inovations (ie wireless networking)... and then as menioned above... the pure, unbridled, "SHOPPING POWER"

I also was into packet radio - basically wireless 1200 baud internet for amateur radio operators back in the pre-internet days... thats was a whole seperate fun and interesting hobby in itself.


I'll end with one final note:

Moore's law states that the capacity of a microchip will double every 18 months..... and has held true since 1969 when he made the statment!

technology will evolve at an ever-expanding rate.... until it destroys us? hope not...

JM

 

[La Buena Hierba]

owh note How has the internet changed my life i dont need too hide my porn under my bed no more

oke!! i still do only on my Big pc screen that autometic comes under out of it?

 

[JM]

ROFL... thats the setup! lol

 

[krug]

I miss simplicity...Me and tech have issues tbh...

 

[AJrexxx]

@krug I agree with missing the simplicity. Especially when you used to be at a bar in the middle of an argument about random sports statistics or trivia. It always ends the same now, no logical debates just six people googling before they say anything. Takes the fun out of bars if you ask me.