Say goodby to yall. Id also make sure all my computer patches were up to date and try to scrounge up all manner of freeware that I could ever envision needing. Maybe download a few thousand songs…If it were legal.
There has to be other people here that rely on the internet way more than I do.
How hard would you be hit and or what would you do with your last internet day??
I have access to the internet at work. I have access to it in the living room (laptop) I have access to it in the evening (desktop) I have access to it in bed (PDA) I have basic access to it out and about (mobile - WAP)
I could live without it, sure.
I’d almost certainly go out more. We’d all be better off without the internet.
First I would wonder who was shutting it down. Then I would wonder why. Then I would shrug and say “Oh well, it was good while it lasted, but we managed without it before, I guess we can now”. Then I would probably start thinking about all those projects around the house that I have been avoiding.
I’d go back to read/write/draw a lot more (like i used to in highschool and college), push myself to go outside when the weather permits it…and exercise more often. I’ll probably end up watching TV again.
I remember the days before internet became popular. They weren’t so bad…
Its cool, but I notice a lot of posters are saying what theyd AFTER the internet was shut down.
I`m sort of interested more in the last minute, panic that would set in and the sort of last minute panicky sort of things you would do before the midnight deadline.
I think Uncommon Sense has the right idea. I would start downloading all the patches, all the drivers for the stuff I have, and as much freeware I could find.
I would also create a huge database for recipes and spend a few hours copying and pasting.
After that, I don’t know, maybe print the SDMB for future reading/reference?
Before midnight:
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[li] I’d send my snail mail address and phone number to all my email friends.[/li][li] I’d snap up any software I don’t already have and would like to get (regardless of whether or not they were legal copies). I’d see which last few MP3s I could get before the Internet went “off the air.”[/li][li] I’d post a final farewell message here in MPSIMS, perhaps with snail mail and phone number.[/li][/ul]
After midnight and beyond:
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[li]Work on the kinds of projects I did before the Internet[/li][li]Watch more TV[/li][li]Go back to reading a newspaper and using an encycolpedia, visit the library more again, start buying more music CDs again with the money that would have been spent on the Internet service.[/li][li]Find something else to do at work to pass the time (besides more work )[/li][li]Celebrate the fact that spammers would have to find new hobbies.[/li][/ul]