what would you do if the internet was GONE?

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If I woke up in 1965, I would probably invent Dungeons & Dragons. If there was suddenly no internet, I would probably write a 100 page essay about epistemology and then go out start a random convo with someone, play/experiment with them to view reactions and write a report on that. Luckily, I didn't become an adult in the fourties.

This is a fantasy so I would translate all of Hans Asperger's papers and have them translated into English and published in all the peer reviewed journals. Then I would fly him to America with translator in tow and have him interviewed by what ever media would agree to it. So hopefully the knowledge that Autism is a spectrum and that Autistics can be valuable members of society would be known by 1966 or 1967. If the campuses disagree we will just hold sit ins and teach ins in the psychology departments holding signs that say "Make Logic not War". The anti war movement had it's famous Spock (Dr. Benjamin Spock) we would have ours (The original Star Trek ran from 1966-1968)

Same thing I did before the internet - spend every free minute with my nose in a book.

yeh, I read so much more pre-pc.

I just had a thought- this was also before video recording devices or time-shifting, so we who watched television would be relatively more glued to the set compared to today. we'd have to stay up late to watch something, we'd have to wait until something was rerun if we missed it the first time.

The internet is one of those necessary evils in the world. Necessary in the fact that we have adjusted our lives to it to such an extent that we can't live without it, evil in the sense that it does far more harm than good.

So my answer is that I would flail a bit but I'd get used to it, but than I will add that the world would be a better place without it. Deep down I think we all know this to.

remember, not only no internet but no PCs, no personal computing devices also. no digital signal/info processing other than what mainframe computers could do back in the day. that means movies back in the day had comparatively primitive special effects, as the first computerized cinematic sfx did not come along until 1968 when Stanley Kubrick used an IBM mainframe to control the slit screen camera fx in "2001- a space odyssey."

I goofed in that I should have just said "no digital computing devices" or just what happens if one wakes up and it is 1965- what then?

Having been a troll in forums, icq, irc, bb's, etc since the mid nineties there's been a lot of times I've just walked AFKB, generally if I'm housebound I'll pick up a book and have a read, or maybe do some painting.

In the poll there isn't really an option for me since I wouldn't bother wasting energy on the flailing bit, but I may set about getting the MIT train set thing back up and running, here's to the 2600 club! Cheers

I wonder how easy it would be to set up something like the minitel service france had for a while in the 60s and 70s?

My first site would be for RFC's to help get others involved and help make the world a better place!

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you sound thoroughly prepared to live in 1965 then