No.
Not counting the first four decades of my life, when home PCs weren’t really a thing yet, I have done occasional vacations without computer access in the more recent past. Until two years ago, the beach house we regularly rent in the summer didn’t have wi-fi, so no computer.
In addition, I’ve gone huge swaths of my life without a TV. Got my first one, used, when I was 28, left it with a grad school roommate a few years later, went another year or so without a TV then got a cheap B&W.
Have had televisions ever since, but it hasn’t always meant much. We haven’t had cable since 1998, and broadcast access where we’ve been living during that time is sketchy at best. Back when I was still a football fan, I had a rooftop-style antenna in the attic to pull in the Redskins games, but didn’t watch TV other than that from 1998-2008, then once the Firebug came along, even that got squeezed out: I haven’t watched live TV at home in eight years now. The Firebug has grown up watching DVDs instead of regular television, which is great because we know exactly what he’s watching.
Multiple times, since the mid-1990s. Because I was traveling (usually when with family, and without or before I even had a smartphone), because of power/internet outages (rural Northern California winters. No more than the record of five consecutive days, to far, though, knock on wood.), or during a couple of hospital stays and/or home convalescences. In the last case, while I technically had ACCESS to a computer, I spent most of my time sleeping, retching, or trying to sleep to avoid retching.
Sure from birth until about age 18.
Then I went to college and had access to the mainframe.
I got my own PC by the time I graduated.
I don’t think there is a week since then during which I haven’t used a computer though.
Sorry, CookingWithGas, I must have scrolled past you.
Everyone on a forum thinks that.
At least a couple times a year or more. Heck, if it wasn’t for the SDMB it would probably be a monthly thing for me.
I just spent three weeks in Barbados and for nearly all of the last week, there was no internet. My laptop connected to the router, but the router had no connection (more precisely, extremely intermittent, too much to even read email) to the internet. The same thing happened at a cafe a block away. I got to their router fine, but no internet, so I assume it affected the whole neighborhood.
I look at a PC (actually many of them) 80 hours a week for work, after a while you dont care if all computer technology exploded over night
At home? I have one, i stopped upgrading it in 2006?
I turn it on once a month to pay bills
I have no landline phone, have no TV service.
I have a cell phone, in 6 months i have used 7 minutes of talk time and about 220mb of bandwidth. It is used more for the alarm clock than anything else. Also makes a good water proof flashlight.
Once in a while i will get GPS directions, or look up something on it.
Not exactly an irreplaceable tool.
If i woke up one morning and all technology vanished, i would probably have a party
I’d definitely have an extra 80 hours a week for things like naps
I spent three weeks in Australia and New Zealand without a computer last year, but damn, did I keep burning through my local data plans on the phone! I had to call customer service to renew after the first time, because the phone app only let you renew once in a month.