Would you trade the internet for...

In the threadThings You Miss in Cafe Society, people are lamenting shows, movies, commercials, etc. that they miss from their past. A few posters have touched upon a few other amenities and characteristics of decades-past that just aren’t around anymore.

And it got me to thinking, we’ve gotten rid of those things to make room for modern-day amenities like the internet. And I for one am not sure if I would trade in my computer and connection so that my children (when I have them) can play kick-the-can, or so my cousin can hitchhike across the country without worrying about the consequences.

What about you?

Neither my wife or I (I just asked her) ever played “kick-the-can”, although she played “hop scotch” and I played “mumbly peg”. I agree with you that I wouldn’t want to trade my computer to be able to play any of them. I’ve also hitchhiked and picked up hitchhikers. Can’t say that I miss either side of that activity, so no trade there either.

Hand written letters.
The internet is wonderful, and I love that I can actually have a discussion here (almost without exception intelligent discussions) with people from everywhere, but…

a little part of me regrets that the hand-written letter is going away. Little note envelopes stuck in my vanity mirror, the smell of my mom’s perfume in her letters when I was far away and home sick, the stack of love letters from my husband; there’s a whole generation of people growing up who won’t know what it’s like to get those things.

Or, .;), maybe I’m just slightly melancholy today. Cheer me up, Much.

I would trade in the Internet for having unlimited, endless always-new (aas in no reruns) “Sex and the City”!

I’d trade the Internet for Calvin and Hobbes returning to the newspaper.

Don’t worry Maureen the physical letter isn’t going away. Just today I sent a two page letter to a very dear friend in Malaysia, whom I’ve met 6 years ago in a chatroom :slight_smile:

I can’t imagine anything I’m merely nostalgic about that I would trade the internet for. I mean, world peace or something…

I would trade my access to the Internet for money. Without a second thought.

If anyone wants to see a girl live withotu any of the following in exchange for cash payments, let me know - internet access, the ability to print at home, cable, TV at all, the phone, the fridge, AC…

But I’ll never give up my hot water! Never!!

I think we still have cans to kick. Although if you let your children kick a can, you’ll probably be considered an unfit parent for exposing them to botulism.

Vast sums of money is about the only thing I’d trade the internet for.

Well, maybe, but it would have to be a lot of money. Enough that I could pay somebody else to do my surfing for me.

You can have it all for nothing. Just leave me mapquest. How the hell I ever found my way even to the local bakery before mapquest I can’t remember.

I always thought Kick the Can and Hopscotch were things people did to pass the time until the internet got invented.

I can remember sitting around after kicking the can saying “Boy this sucks, when are they going to invent the internet?”

ROFL, ^^^^^^ :smiley:

Wow, I actually used “ROFL”…

The internet. I’d trade it all for a little more.

Since I found this website . . . well, and a couple others, no way. It would have to be a heck of a lot of money! But now that I think about it, I’d give up the Internet if I had to, to go back to my life 20 years ago, and be that age and in that place again.

Kick the can was a lot of fun, though.

Miz

I would trade the internet for the MATRIX if I could program my own virtual environment. It’d be okay with me to spend my life in a gooey womb, if all my senses told me I was boinking Hollywood starlets.

Since I found this website … well, and a couple others, no way. It would take a huge amount of money to get me away from it. But now that I think about it, I’d give up the Internet if I had to, to be back in my life 20 years ago–be that age and in that place.

But Kick the Can was fun, though.

MizQuirk

Double posting’s not much fun, though. Thought I’d lost the first one. :smack:

Miz