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Q: What would you do if you lost the internet?
Obviously, I don't mean down the back of the couch...
If you no longer had access to most of the sites you visit nowadays. Obviously, you've managed to deal with not having FB & Gmail/Google, many news sites, etc.
What's the line before you do something extreme?
I've been fortunate, I guess... most sites I would visit I still can (friggen annoying when I can't access my university library!), but I can still stream my radio from back home (sometimes), and I can go to my torrent sites. If I lost those, Gutenberg would have a lot more traffic 
- though, I'm sort of surprised it hasn't been blocked... (until I write this, and then someone asks "What's Gutenberg?"
If I lost those (and obviously, ECC... ), I think that would push me over the edge.
8 years 6 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
I feel like I have the last few days.
I don't like being cut off from the outside world, I see what it does to people everyday.
I think if the state of the internet today was to be a permanent thing a lot of people would leave China. Or, do what the locals do and wander aimlessly into traffic while staring at your smartphone.
I guess I'd play the piano more, and maybe exercise more?
Get a new xbox?
Drink.
well babyyyyy let me tell you if I lost the internet bbbbbbaby Id go stir crazy,da da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,do do do do do dooooooooooo baby yehhhhhhh Id go stir crazy,
oh yehhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Hotwater:
Is that the latest Kayne West ditty? Or whatever his name is!
Maybe it would be wise to download the internet then. Im told it will take about 185,485 years, 4 months, 2 days, 7 hours, 14 minutes, and 22 seconds. GL !
Don't the scientists say a sun flare could knock out the net, as well as power grids?
get back to reading,,,, which I have down a lot less of since getting access to this damn thing. weird,,, cuz the book I'm reading right now, Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure, I dl'd from the 'net and am reading it on my iPad... haha, I guess we are dependent on this damn thing now~
diverdude1:
well,,, I must admit that these e-books certainly have some cool features. I have this special copy of Dracula, it is licensed by the Stoker Foundation, and it is very neat, I guess you would call it interactive, it's full of nice artwork and a lot of the artwork you can touch it and something happens... I wouldn't call it video, because it's still all drawings, but when you touch the art , like the wolves run in the night, or one of the vampiress's bites into the guy and the blood runs down his neck. As much as I like holding a paperback in my hands, I must admit the e-books have some cool aspects a paperback cannot provide.
I was only wondering about that a couple of hours ago. Like; fuk me, is this thing actually rooted now? And then after a while I had another try and it worked. But not my email. It doesn't work about 50% of the time. I'm on outlook/hotmail.
The thing is it's my Mum's birthday tomorrow and I want to communicate with her today. But China says no.
The only reliable web site is ECC. Funny don't you reckon.
And the radio's blocked again. 'King commies.
I reckon the shit's gunna hit the wall.
philbravery:
yep radio is blocked and search engines limited to china i think we have been contained
I would resort to scribbling hieroglyphics on the blackboard for my classes...oh wait, I have to do that now anyway.
I would really only miss my weekly dose from explosm.net
Already read extensively, have a massive e-library, movie collection on DVD, and, in the case of a catastrophic EMI (as ScotsAlan mentioned), I would simply bask in the electrified knowledge that having one's own nuclear generator (only 15055435465435 points from ECC!) provides electricity, power, a source of nuclear deterrents, and eight-legged - four-armed children as long as TaoBao can keep providing the uranium.
i have to have vpn's for bloomberg and the wall street journal, if i could not check my investments, i would be on the next plane out of here, dont mess with a man's hard earned money, sometimes my bank accounts are not accessible and i get the urge to pack my luggage.
