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Post by karlpalaka on Dec 16, 2019 7:59:24 GMT 10
The idea of the internet was first invented in 1969 from ARPANET, though around the early 80s, people in general have been using usenet, which is basically like the web, but without online games and social media, and then around the late 80s came the World Wide Web, which though became common to have inside households around the mid 2000s at least in developed countries like the US, Canada, England, Australlia, etc, so now here comes the catch. Suppose if right now, the web has suddenly been permanently recalled, would you guys be able to still live without it assuming we would still be going about our everyday lives, but we would have to rely on resources other than a web browser? Online activity would still happen, but in other ways.
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Post by karlpalaka on Dec 16, 2019 8:02:48 GMT 10
I can live without the web, cause really, all I actually need it for is actually just for my work purposes, but really I can, cause I dont use social media, and I never really play online games. My work does require me to use a web browser, since that is the world we now live in. Its a shame as I remember life around fifteen years ago, when more than half of the people living in the US had no web access at home, and I only first used it when I was in third grade, meaning before that, I never knew this was even a thing. Bottom line, I can still manage without it.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 16, 2019 9:24:56 GMT 10
I would be lying if I said that I would find it easy to live without the web, but I think I could handle it. I'm not a massive user of social media. Facebook is the only site I have a personal account on and I only check in to that maybe once a day for about 5 minutes. I haven't made a status since 2016. In a way, I do wish the internet wasn't around, or at the very least, that I was old enough to have been able to experience a time before the World Wide Web was launched.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 9:41:25 GMT 10
Nope, my family got Internet in 1993, the year I was born, so I have never known life without Internet (other than on vacation before the advent of Wi-fi in 2003).
I could maybe survive without it but my quality of life would be a lot lower without access to the vast wealth of information.
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Post by karlpalaka on Dec 16, 2019 10:24:25 GMT 10
Nope, my family got Internet in 1993, the year I was born, so I have never known life without Internet (other than on vacation before the advent of Wi-fi in 2003). I could maybe survive without it but my quality of life would be a lot lower without access to the vast wealth of information. To be honest, I know people born in 1992-1996 who had internet at home when they were just babies. I didnt even have a computer at home until 2002, a few months after I turned five, and I first got exposed to the internet in third grade, dont remember if it was late 2005 or early 2006, but that means I spent more than half of my childhood without ever knowing this thing called "The Internet" existed, though the Internet refers to the connection that lets people see stuff from all over the world in instants, and I really hate it when people call the Web, the Internet, considering they are two different things.
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Post by karlpalaka on Dec 16, 2019 10:30:07 GMT 10
I would be lying if I said that I would find it easy to live without the web, but I think I could handle it. I'm not a massive user of social media. Facebook is the only site I have a personal account on and I only check in to that maybe once a day for about 5 minutes. I haven't made a status since 2016. In a way, I do wish the internet wasn't around, or at the very least, that I was old enough to have been able to experience a time before the World Wide Web was launched. My older brother is quite the opposite. He always uses wifi for every single thing. He would vote no for sure, since he always is dependent on Yelp reviews just to decide where to eat. My dad is only the opposite in terms of watching and listening to Malayalam songs and videos on YouTube as well as reading the Kerala news. He can actually live without the internet, though around two years ago, he is now dependent on the Internet just for these activities. Like whenever we go out, he always asks if wifi exists so he wont use up his data on the phone. When we went to Seattle two weeks ago, he was listening to Malayalam songs out loud with his phone wherever we want. He is pretty addicted to videos about life back in the country where he was born in. I mean I used to be using the web a lot back when I was in high school and during the first two years of colleges, but afterwards, when I saw how people looked when they were glued onto their smart phones, I decided I could no longer do it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 11:00:58 GMT 10
Nope, my family got Internet in 1993, the year I was born, so I have never known life without Internet (other than on vacation before the advent of Wi-fi in 2003). I could maybe survive without it but my quality of life would be a lot lower without access to the vast wealth of information. To be honest, I know people born in 1992-1996 who had internet at home when they were just babies. I didnt even have a computer at home until 2002, a few months after I turned five, and I first got exposed to the internet in third grade, dont remember if it was late 2005 or early 2006, but that means I spent more than half of my childhood without ever knowing this thing called "The Internet" existed, though the Internet refers to the connection that lets people see stuff from all over the world in instants, and I really hate it when people call the Web, the Internet, considering they are two different things. You didn't hear about the Internet from TV or your friends? In Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy Turner buys a lot of things from the Internet  I honestly can't remember the first time I went online. I know my dad made a Hotmail account for me in 1999, and I used MSN to chat with my relatives abroad. But even before that, in first grade (1998-99 school year) the teacher taught us how to use a search engine, and before she could say it, I knew to type in "www.ask.com" (a popular search engine before Google), so I was already an Internet pro before that*. *I did learn one thing in that class, and that was that you could double-click on the icon to execute an application. Before that, I used to right-click and click "Open/Run". 
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Post by John Titor on Dec 16, 2019 11:43:26 GMT 10
To be honest, I know people born in 1992-1996 who had internet at home when they were just babies. I didnt even have a computer at home until 2002, a few months after I turned five, and I first got exposed to the internet in third grade, dont remember if it was late 2005 or early 2006, but that means I spent more than half of my childhood without ever knowing this thing called "The Internet" existed, though the Internet refers to the connection that lets people see stuff from all over the world in instants, and I really hate it when people call the Web, the Internet, considering they are two different things. You didn't hear about the Internet from TV or your friends? In Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy Turner buys a lot of things from the Internet I honestly can't remember the first time I went online. I know my dad made a Hotmail account for me in 1999, and I used MSN to chat with my relatives abroad. But even before that, in first grade (1998-99 school year) the teacher taught us how to use a search engine, and before she could say it, I knew to type in "www.ask.com" (a popular search engine before Google), so I was already an Internet pro before that*. *I did learn one thing in that class, and that was that you could double-click on the icon to execute an application. Before that, I used to right-click and click "Open/Run". Mine had to been 96 on Yahoo, looking up codes on how to beat Super Mario 64 when it came out
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Post by karlpalaka on Dec 16, 2019 13:22:04 GMT 10
To be honest, I know people born in 1992-1996 who had internet at home when they were just babies. I didnt even have a computer at home until 2002, a few months after I turned five, and I first got exposed to the internet in third grade, dont remember if it was late 2005 or early 2006, but that means I spent more than half of my childhood without ever knowing this thing called "The Internet" existed, though the Internet refers to the connection that lets people see stuff from all over the world in instants, and I really hate it when people call the Web, the Internet, considering they are two different things. You didn't hear about the Internet from TV or your friends? In Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy Turner buys a lot of things from the Internet I honestly can't remember the first time I went online. I know my dad made a Hotmail account for me in 1999, and I used MSN to chat with my relatives abroad. But even before that, in first grade (1998-99 school year) the teacher taught us how to use a search engine, and before she could say it, I knew to type in "www.ask.com" (a popular search engine before Google), so I was already an Internet pro before that*. *I did learn one thing in that class, and that was that you could double-click on the icon to execute an application. Before that, I used to right-click and click "Open/Run". I didnt even have cable until fourth grade, so until like first grade, I was just watching preschool level shows, and from first to third grade, we were just renting VHS and DVDs, since our antenna at home kept struggling to make the TV work. For kindergarten, I was in one school, and the students were never allowed to use the three crt computers inside the classroom, and for first through second grade, I went to an elementary school, which was seperated from third grade and up, and no internet use there. Third grade onwards was when I first heard about it, which was when our family got internet access at home for the first time. Students began to talk about it then. I only had a computer at home when I was in kindergarten, and home internet use didnt hit 50% until the mid 2000s in the US.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 13:56:21 GMT 10
I didnt even have cable until fourth grade, so until like first grade, I was just watching preschool level shows, and from first to third grade, we were just renting VHS and DVDs, since our antenna at home kept struggling to make the TV work. For kindergarten, I was in one school, and the students were never allowed to use the three crt computers inside the classroom, and for first through second grade, I went to an elementary school, which was seperated from third grade and up, and no internet use there. Third grade onwards was when I first heard about it, which was when our family got internet access at home for the first time. Students began to talk about it then. I only had a computer at home when I was in kindergarten, and home internet use didnt hit 50% until the mid 2000s in the US. Did you live in a rural area? Cable and Internet were really cheap by the early 2000s over here so I'm surprised it took your family so long to catch on  Internet use hit 50% in 1999 if I remember correctly, but that's only if you include Greatest/Silent gen who were still numerous back then but never cared to get on the Internet. For Millennials/Gen X/Boomers, I bet it had already hit 50% by 1997. I can't find the stats for the US but this is for Canada www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/canada/ Unfortunately there's no data before 2000, but it does show Internet access already at 50%+ by 2000. Mine had to been 96 on Yahoo, looking up codes on how to beat Super Mario 64 when it came out Oh, you didn't just hand your cartridge over to the kid at school who finished the game already? Me neither.  I do remember looking up Ocarina of Time cheat codes only to find out there weren't any 
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Post by John Titor on Dec 16, 2019 14:56:36 GMT 10
I didnt even have cable until fourth grade, so until like first grade, I was just watching preschool level shows, and from first to third grade, we were just renting VHS and DVDs, since our antenna at home kept struggling to make the TV work. For kindergarten, I was in one school, and the students were never allowed to use the three crt computers inside the classroom, and for first through second grade, I went to an elementary school, which was seperated from third grade and up, and no internet use there. Third grade onwards was when I first heard about it, which was when our family got internet access at home for the first time. Students began to talk about it then. I only had a computer at home when I was in kindergarten, and home internet use didnt hit 50% until the mid 2000s in the US. Did you live in a rural area? Cable and Internet were really cheap by the early 2000s over here so I'm surprised it took your family so long to catch on Internet use hit 50% in 1999 if I remember correctly, but that's only if you include Greatest/Silent gen who were still numerous back then but never cared to get on the Internet. For Millennials/Gen X/Boomers, I bet it had already hit 50% by 1997. I can't find the stats for the US but this is for Canada www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/canada/ Unfortunately there's no data before 2000, but it does show Internet access already at 50%+ by 2000. Mine had to been 96 on Yahoo, looking up codes on how to beat Super Mario 64 when it came out Oh, you didn't just hand your cartridge over to the kid at school who finished the game already? Me neither. I do remember looking up Ocarina of Time cheat codes only to find out there weren't any nope but I had them do that for me LOLLLLLL I never let anyone use my games but my friends would always give me theirs with the Saves at 99% on them lol I swear Ocarina of time when that joint dropped made me throw my controller against the wall
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Post by karlpalaka on Dec 17, 2019 5:01:20 GMT 10
I didnt even have cable until fourth grade, so until like first grade, I was just watching preschool level shows, and from first to third grade, we were just renting VHS and DVDs, since our antenna at home kept struggling to make the TV work. For kindergarten, I was in one school, and the students were never allowed to use the three crt computers inside the classroom, and for first through second grade, I went to an elementary school, which was seperated from third grade and up, and no internet use there. Third grade onwards was when I first heard about it, which was when our family got internet access at home for the first time. Students began to talk about it then. I only had a computer at home when I was in kindergarten, and home internet use didnt hit 50% until the mid 2000s in the US. Did you live in a rural area? Cable and Internet were really cheap by the early 2000s over here so I'm surprised it took your family so long to catch on Internet use hit 50% in 1999 if I remember correctly, but that's only if you include Greatest/Silent gen who were still numerous back then but never cared to get on the Internet. For Millennials/Gen X/Boomers, I bet it had already hit 50% by 1997. I can't find the stats for the US but this is for Canada www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/canada/ Unfortunately there's no data before 2000, but it does show Internet access already at 50%+ by 2000. Mine had to been 96 on Yahoo, looking up codes on how to beat Super Mario 64 when it came out Oh, you didn't just hand your cartridge over to the kid at school who finished the game already? Me neither. I do remember looking up Ocarina of Time cheat codes only to find out there weren't any I am including people of all ages, cause now, even 70-year olds use the Internet, and 2-year olds as well on an iPad. In the US, home internet use hit 50% of the population around 2005, but people having internet access at home was 50% in 2003.
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Post by sman12 on Dec 27, 2019 9:27:04 GMT 10
Honestly, not really, because I wouldn't have y'all to chat to.  Plus, I'd rather watch internet television like Netflix and Disney Plus than to pay hundreds of dollars on cable each month.
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Post by Captain Nemo on Dec 27, 2019 10:25:28 GMT 10
What our internet addiction will ultimately lead to;
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Post by John Titor on Dec 27, 2019 10:25:40 GMT 10
Honestly, not really, because I wouldn't have y'all to chat to. Plus, I'd rather watch internet television like Netflix and Disney Plus than to pay hundreds of dollars on cable each month. you can get cable tv for 25 dollars on almost any device www.sling.com/Dish owns them and it is pre paid like Netflix is, no contracts There is also Hulu Live and Youtube TV, tons of alternatives out there
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Plus, I'd rather watch internet television like Netflix and Disney Plus than to pay hundreds of dollars on cable each month. 
