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Could you go one month without Internet access?

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Go for it.

I decided to stop watching Netflix for a week. It ended up being two. I got a lot done. 😛
 
rh71 said:
Umm work requires it (work from home full time). Once upon a time they even paid for it until they said "by now all of you should have it for yourself anyway".

Other than that all my entertainment is through either torrents or paid streaming services. Have FIOS for tv but hardly ever watch things real time. Too many interruptions with commercials and of course there's the time commitment thing.
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LOL...you realize a company cannot require you to have internet and then force you to pay for it, right?

Your troll just got Bro-ko-ko-loled.
 
Ruptga said:
You came in here just to tell him to fuck off, and you think the mods will side with you just because he poked back? Glass houses, broseph.
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are you his other account or are you and him five star members at broke back?

I told him to try it. His post is a troll.

Only you and him took that as a threat or something.

Personally if I lived in Colorado, I'd just be outdoors if that was my thing. The weather is not so great and you have to deal with shitty snow.

I work there A LOT. Beaver Creek is a nice thing to have. Unfortunately, I have to have my rental car washed usually.

So thank you for equating giving up internet to insulting my mother that just passed away; troll.
 
Pretty much impossible - no email? No online banking? Movies on Netflix? Entertainment like Youtube & forums? Research like Wikipedia & recipe websites? Shopping like Amazon & Newegg? I'm in an IT-related field & I'm on-call and constantly use the net to remote-connect to work, so no way I could do it unless I changed jobs...to something that didn't require email or looking up vendor websites.

Sounds boring. I guess it's good to disconnect, but life seems so slow outside of the connected world.
 
Yea, unless there was a major event that caused everyones lives to drastically change, then I don't see myself w/o internet. It's work AND entertainment rolled into one. You can practically do and learn anything via it.
 
Internet access is far more than a novelty or time passer.
Security system uses it and thus so do I, banking, health, financial.
Might as well ask could one do without electricity or a car for a month?
Or FOOD!

Loved that South Park episode when all internet went down.
 
If I could live in the open in or near the Rockies somewhere, I'm sure I'd go quite a while before getting bored.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
I don't want to hide or, steal from others. I have all the entertainment I need in friends who visit, the wind in the trees, the sun on the rocks and, the crackle of a well laid fire. People who get bored don't have enough to do.
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And people who don't have enough to do go camping
 
1 month, no internet, not at home, no.

But if I was on vacation, I could go a month with no internet, using maps and compasses to find my way around, and then looking in a book with phone numbers rather then google to book places or make reservations....
 
Hrm, I'd have to dig out an MP3 player and dust off my MP3s. No cable, so I'd have to rely on my DVD collection or find something else to do. I guess I could play some games that have been sitting around. Otherwise, yeah I think I could do it.

I mean, work wouldn't be cool with me not using the internet though.
 
TwiceOver said:
Hrm, I'd have to dig out an MP3 player and dust off my MP3s. No cable, so I'd have to rely on my DVD collection or find something else to do. I guess I could play some games that have been sitting around. Otherwise, yeah I think I could do it.
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Answers like this miss the whole point of the "challenge", imho.

The underlying idea is to stop reflexively sucking off of the technology teat, and to reintroduce yourself to the simple but profound joy of immersing yourself deep into a good novel that has actual pages you have to manually turn, and to emerge from your basement or cubicle, blinking like hairless mole in the noonday sun, and bask in the awesome 3D graphics and stately, healing rhythms of nature.

Now, have I gone an entire month w/o the internet in this millenium?

Fuck no. :colbert:
 
I think I could. Did it for about two weeks when we were in Hawaii and did not miss it. Got a lot of reading done.

KT
 
alkemyst said:
LOL...you realize a company cannot require you to have internet and then force you to pay for it, right?

Your troll just got Bro-ko-ko-loled.
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If Rh71 still works for who I think that he does, he should consider himself lucky that he has a job with them. A lot of his colleagues have already had their jobs outsourced overseas.

I used to work there, and it's amazing how cheap they were. They wouldn't pay for a cell phone (even if you were on call), they wouldn't pay for training, and they wouldn't even buy us office supplies. We had to scrounge for pens and notepads from promotional events and raid the offices of people who got laid off for working dry erase markers.
 
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