If the computer and internet was not invented, what would you be doing right now?

[sure_smile]

i would be doing my geometry project, due tomorrow, that i am "doing" right now....actually, i would probably be sitting on the floor next to my geometry project picking at carpet fibers....ah, the many wonders of the offseason....

[RbtGal1351]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

All kinds of cool non-computer related stuff.

Yeah, I'd probably be buildling some sort of nerdy mechanism to do what i wanted it to do, and (OMG!) it'd have to be all mechanical.

I'd also be taking apart all the [now-broken] appliances in my house, like the washing machine, (have you ever taken one apart? the dials at the top are AWESOME as to how it times stuff, and i still cant believe its all mechanical... it just mind boggles me), the hair dryer, the toaster, the blender, etc etc.

Oh, and math problems - all by hand! wow.. math team would be so different!
Also, science experiments.. dont forget those!

Course i do most of that stuff now (i'm so upset Mom won't let me take apart the blender yet cuz its not broken... yet.. *gets hammer*)

~Stephanie
Team 1351

[KenWittlief]

I think I would work in a hat shop, selling hats

what size are you? seven and a half? oh I think we have that!

You know, I think I could do that. It depends though, what are the hours?

['lil Gach]

I think that I would have to do things I havent done in a while. Such as clean my room, start studying for finals and hang out with my sister. My life is online so I really dont know what I would do. If it was during one of my sports seasons I would be practicing till about 5:45 and then I would come home to do homework.. I just cant live with out the internet because how would I be able to contact my friends from FIRST without racking up my phone bill. If it was during build season that answer would be a lot easier!

Tiffany

[KelliV]

I may be forced to go back to my cheerleading days...
Or I would be in sports... those have been around forever...
I do think that it would be a lot of fun to make clocks though...

And oh yea... that photo project 'lil Gach and I are supposed to be doing...

[MissInformation]

Right now, as in this very second right now? I would would be eating my lunch outside underneath a tree while reading a book. It's beautiful out, 74 degrees, slight breeze, bright blue sky with white, fluffy clouds... so I think I'll give technology a break for a short while and go sit on the soft green grass underneath that Cherry tree, I don't have a book with me, but I'm sure I can occupy my time by watching the clouds roll by. I see a cloud from my window that looks like a snail!

Heidi

[1086Programmer]

Reading a book. Actually doing my homework.

Or more likely sketching (my long lost love) and writing poetry (how many months have gone by?). XD

[Arefin Bari]

If the computer and internet was not invented, I would be building Robots (yes I know I wouldn't be able to program it, but yea.. IFI controllers do come with the default code)

[Pat Fairbank]

Hmm... well, for one thing, I probably wouldn't be replying to this thread.

I would be spending more time on the piano, and I'd probably have learnt to ride a unicycle by now.

[KenWittlief]

I was thinking about this question during lunch, and its really hard to imagine our world without digital computers.

you would have to go back before 1940 to undo digital computers, and the math and research goes back even further

the impact to our world and our culture is hard to imagine, if computers had never existed

a program like FIRST could still exist, because engineering and science encompasses many fields that are not based on computer technology

but you would literally have to push us back to about 1940 to imagine the world with no digital computers of any kind

so another way of looking at this would be, what would you be doing right now if you were living in the 'world' of 1940?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I would be reading or playing with the radio. (Ham Radio that is.) I don't have as much time for either while I am replying and reading here. But I have met a lot more interesting people on the Internet with many different hobbies and interests even though radio does a nice job of introduction.

[JoeXIII'007]

I would be studying my chemistry notes for the final exam. This means I'd be looking through my great big file cabinet that contains all the notes I've taken for the class (theory: since a lot of work now is made using computer applications, if we had to hand write them, it would take a lot more space. Yet again, the printing press was available. ). Also, I'd probably have something to do in the woodshop. Instead of using inventor, I'd have to use a drafting board, T-square, 30/60 and right triangles, rulers, tape, pencil, erase, that curvy thingy, and whatever else manual drafters use.

Then after all that, I'd be maintaining the front and back yards of my house. Before going to bed, I'd read LOTR.

Basically, without the computer or internet, my life would be much, much different and so would be what I'm doing right now.

[MissInformation]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

so another way of looking at this would be, what would you be doing right now if you were living in the 'world' of 1940?

That would be another way of looking at it, but it wouldn't really be even nearly the same thing. A woman's role in society was very different in 1940 and if the original question had been "what would you be doing right now if you were living in the world of 1940?" I would have answered very differently. I would either be a spinster, most likely a teacher or a secretary, or even more likely, since my family would not have had the money to send me to school, I would be married with several children. I would have married young, and so my children would most likely be in their teens by now. With the rest of the world at war, I would be content and happy with my country for staying out of it, horrified, of course, that it was happening, but with little impact on my daily life of raising children and keeping up a home.

Heidi

[Conor Ryan]

thinking on this topic during class today, and talking it over lunch with a couple of friends, I've determined that I'd probably sit down and bang my head on a desk at the lack of ingenuity and creativity that engineers and inventors have.

Or maybe I'd find myself playing/viewing/using whatever else they created instead of Computers and Mass Networking, any one have any idea of the alternatives? Or maybe we will never know...

[KenWittlief]

if there were no computers

that means there would be no calculators either

and that means we would all still be using [shutter] gasp! SLIDE RULES!

Agggghhhhhh!!!!

how did people live without square-root buttons?