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WHAT did we do before the internet?
I'm disabled so it's my window on the world and has stopped me going mad!
21 Answers
- sherzada8Lv 42 decades agoFavorite Answer
raised too much hell drank too much wiskey you know just young and dumb then i grew up now i have insomnia sometimes and the internet keeps me from going totally bonkers
- rachelsweet2001Lv 42 decades ago
We managed to survive with conversation and seemed to have a life! if we wanted information then there was a funny thing called a library.
Wonder if the next generation will think the internet as a dinosaur and how could we possibly be satisfied with it.
- 2 decades ago
like everything else it is good and it is bad.. for people such as yourself it has been a godsend..for others an outliet for their isolation and personality disorders which it will only aggravate despite their short term relief....
I am so glad that the positive outcome is such as the one you state.. but the answer to this is a thesis and the result will not be known for decades to come when the impact can be fully judged....
Source(s): are we all just bits and bytes in the phospher stream.. (there is a citation but can I recall it.. ummm. no! lol) - 2 decades ago
MUCH MORE, SOME LESS.
In my opinion, Internet is great, but like anything else,to be used in moderation, and in co-ordination with other things you are trying to do.
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- Anonymous2 decades ago
I dont know i cant even remember what happened 2 weeks ago nevermind b4 the internet.I must buy i diary.
- Anonymous2 decades ago
Had better and closer relationships with our families and did more things together and had more face to face conversations. I love my computer but it does make your friends seem further away.
- 2 decades ago
well, before the internet..the computer was used generally for all the analytical and mathematical purposes...
- catty blondLv 52 decades ago
watch reruns from tv, use telegrams, analog phones, write letters via slow postal mail