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Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access?
An anonymous reader writes "I've decided that the internet is no longer a positive influence on my life, and am interested in canceling my service. In the interest of not forgoing all digital conveniences, I plan to set up a small intranet, hosting a few resources that I think I'd like to have access to on a regular basis (e.g. a text dump of Wikipedia). I'll also still have access to the internet at my office, and have easy access to public Wi-Fi at libraries and coffee shops. My questions are thus: Does anybody have any experience living without the internet? What major nuisances did you encounter? What resources should I put on my intranet? Is there anything I'm overlooking?"
I've got some really sage advice for you, but you won't be able to get it...
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Stage one, preparation. For this you will need one room which you will not leave. Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. Paracetamol, mouthwash, vitamins. Mineral water, Lucozade, pornography. One mattress. One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus. One television and one bottle of Valium.
It's been over 6 years since I had any sort of access to the internet in any capacity. I don't find that I have any problems with it. You just spend more money on actually buying porn. Otherwise it's no different.
Does anybody have any experience living without the internet? Yes
What major nuisances did you encounter? Lack of internet
What resources should I put on my intranet? A router hooked up to your ISP
Is there anything I'm overlooking? The usefulness of the internet
In all seriousness, good luck.
please excuse my apathy
Is Saturday really the right time to be asking on the Web for helpful advise from people who have already foregone the Internet except at work?
"Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life." -- Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_, Book 9, 37
Speak for yourself! Mine turns on unbidden at night and beams images into my brain. That's the only explanation for the queer thoughts that have been running through my brain of late - shameful things like voting for social progressives.
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George Washington had no internet access -- and now he is dead.
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Hey buddy, why not just ask anybody that's older than say 30, "What did you do before you had internet?" Since internet access from the home isn't that old, i'm sure you can find some things to do and resources to use.
I'm older than 30, and I remember the pre-internet era all too well. Constant crying, and frequent pants-soiling. I couldn't even feed myself.
Then I got my first taste of the Internet when I started college back in '86, and life got so much better!
I've decided that alcohol is no longer a positive influence on my life, and am no longer going to drink continuously. To prepare for this, I am planning to stock a small cellar with wine, beer and some specialty liquor.
I'll still be drinking at work, and can frequent bars and taverns.
My question is thus: does anybody have any experience living without a steady stream of alcohol? What major nuisances did you encounter? What and how much should I put in my cellar? Is there anything I'm overlooking?
"Is there anything I'm overlooking?"
You're overlooking the irony of asking Slashdot.
I do the same, but my boss complains about me not doing anything at work on Wednesdays!
This is blinging