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

[i_am_Doug]

Well......I WOULD GO NUTS!!!!!! this site would mabe have to be done by mail..... Email would be ...mail BUT mail with out the E is meaning less, the E puts the E in the mail....understand? "Fore without the E in Email, mail is pointless" -unknown

[Enterprize]

I would be reading, avoiding sunlight, and listening to radio.

And libraries wouldn't be all that different, sans the notecard system...ugh...

Stores would be very very different though...imagine no barcode system? Grocery lines would take forever?

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by 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?

How did they live without square root buttons? Going back to middle school algebra, I think we used factor trees, which could get us down to all the whole numbered roots of any number we chose.

If you think about it, if we didn't have calculators today, we'd be practicing the many hand methods of calculating that brought us to the technological level we are at today, for it had to start by hand. At the same time, we'd in theory have a better grasp of what we are doing with the numbers we manipulate.

Today, it turns out we have these calculators which we can freely use and without much thought punch in a few numbers, operators, etc. and get an answer, and we believe it. We take this granted unfortunately.

So to answer the question at hand, again, I think I'd be doing hand calculations for something.

[Elgin Clock]

Welll.. I wouldn't be about to throw my cable modem out the window for dropping the connection on me for many times in the last 2 weeks and now 8 times within 5 hours or saying a few choice words about Adelphia..


Btw, I'm kidding.. I'm not that violent. But in reality, more problems are created than solutions are made because of the internet. The same may not be so for computers in general, but for the internet I believe so.

[santosh]

Sleeping, because CD wouldnt be here to keep me awake.

[tiffany34990]

i would be sleeping probaby at this hour...my time would be more devoted to drawing, painting, doing puzzles and reading probably....

i'm soo glad that the computer was invented along with the internet....evenutally someone had to come up with it of course... i wonder what great things are in store for the future....

[Ashley Christine]

::Covers ears:: LALALAL I CANT HEAR YOU!!

[I dont even want to imagine my life without the internet!]

But, I guess that I would get myself involved in maybe music/ a band. I always wanted to be in a band.
Also, if there wasnt internet, maybe I would have more instate friends then outa state friends. Then I would actually have people to hang out with.
But. I still dont want to think about life with computers. Technology is like my everything! hehe [I mean, not to many people I know hug robots and practically live on their computers.]

-Ashley

[wilshire]

wow life without computers.
well no more easy way doing technical drawings. Its time to bust out the old drafting tables and start doing the drawings by hand ( and with some parts it can be a true thorn in the side) also no more CD.

heheheThen I would actually have people to hang out with.
But. I still dont want to think about life with computers. Technology is like my everything! hehe [I mean, not to many people I know hug robots and practically live on their computers.]-ashley

Totally agree that technology is everything nowadays. Every new tool, appliance, medicine, medical procedure is all due to technology whether it involves robots or not. Really without the computer and our ability to utilize it to quicken the pace at which technological advances are made or without the internet toquicke the spread of the ideas behind these new breakthroughs we would probably be 40 years behind our atual time. really in my opinion the internet and computer are very beneficial if used in proper manners.

[RbtGal1351]

Originally Posted by wilshire

Totally agree that technology is everything nowadays. Every new tool, appliance, medicine, medical procedure is all due to technology whether it involves robots or not.

They're practically all made with robots too!
Factory tours are awesome! It's amazing they can make things that do the things they do. (My favorite is the robot that folds and wraps hershey's candy bars.)

~Stephanie

[shyra1353]

Probably paying attention to my algebra class .... but in a littl eless than an hour .. I wil be done all my classes in high school ... ... ::goes and bawls my eyes out::

[Heretic121]

actually studying for my english FINAL exam which i need to pass to pass english for the year and graduate =X *yes i know i am a slacker... if you read this and think OMG HARRY YOU IDIOT!!! go right ahead and IM me

[Ashley Christine]

Yeah, I just decided... I would deff be dead. I dont know what I would do. AHH

[and I wouldnt be able to talk to/know my "brother" haha.]

[Jay H 237]

After my cable modem got hit by lightening during a bad storm we had Thursday afternoon I got to see what it'd be like without the internet. It gave me a chance to watch tv for two days until I got a new modem earlier today although the tv could never take the place of the computer.

It's good to be back online!

[nparikh]

Originally Posted by Wayne C.

I'd be reading books- lots of books..... You know- those bound paper things...

Before the internet (yeah I'm old) I would read about 3 books a week on science and my favorite topics in biology.

But now it is so easy to connect with others. But unfortunately the internet is largely superficial in the depth of the information it offers. More people seem to be concerned about the most trivial things and selling product seems to be the driving force.

The potential for greatness in the internet is there but it doesn't seem to be working up to what it could be. Maybe in the future?

WC

So that's how he got so smart!

I'd probably be studying more...like for the SATIIs I have tommorow (Saturday), and yeah..I'd be reading more. Like Cokeley said, the internet has great potential, but I think right now we end up using it for a lot of the wrong reasons

[John Gutmann]

I'd be a little less lazy and therefore a little less fat maybe?

But nowa days everything has a computer in it! It is like trying to think what it would be like to live in 1843!!!!

Oh no!!!Bad dream!!!

*wakes up*