What if there were no internet or computers?

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Before this year I did not have the internet so there was no reason for me to use the computer. I would play games, watch tv and read novels, and of course I am pretty much used to haveing a nill social life. I would play my 360 which I did a lot before I had the internet.

It was done in the 1970s BEFORE microcomputers really took off and before a little company called microsoft. BTW My apologies to B.G. (aka W.G. III) It looks like he DOES have A.S.! Someone I know AGAIN saw him, told me he is she, VERY QUIET in front of small groups, rocks back and forth whenever he concentrates, and this person also said that he heard B.G. "has a syndrome that causes it". He DID hear from someone else that he "may have aspergers"! Go figure.

ANYWAY, D & D was known as a GEEK's game! I wish I really put two and two together, and looked into it. I never really thought about my standing as a geek. I was heavily into electronics, computers, etc... I was ODD. The FIRST time anyone ever called me a geek, to the best of my knowledge, was a COWORKER! When he left he called himself and me "GEEKS"! For the record, I didn't consider him a geek, and some think anyone working with computers is a geek, so I don't know how much that means.

A lot of people I respected were into D&D! The last person I knew that was involved with D&D was in the class one year behind mine(he was a year younger than I was), and was in the boy scouts! He was REALLY into computers, creating mazes, and ended up working for JPL. I guess my last official act as his friend was to give the FBI the type of review(very favorable) he deserved for his security clearance.

I'd probably not have a social life either. I didn't have one before I got a computer and an internet connection (but I knew exactly how to get to the public library, at which times the different ones opened and closed and how low the checkout limit was).

NOPE, you WOULDN'T! The 360 has a CPU in it! In fact, it is a POWERPC processor that was one of the few lines actually created by and for a COMPUTER company!

As for me, regarding how MY life would be, that is a TOUGH question! I guess, without computers, the electronics industry wouldn't have progressed to the multilayer PC boards, like it did, and I would have stuck with electronics. Heck, I probably would have created a computer.

As for social things? I would probably have kept going to libraries. At least I would have had a little exposure, etc...

It didn't say that technology related to it is excluded also, and the 360 is not classed as a computer. I was takeing it what if all computers and internet was taken, so my answer is still valid.

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Well, it uses the same technology, and programming a game, to that degree, would require the functionality of a computer. AND, if computers didn't exist, apple wouldn't have existed to encourage IBM to come out with the PC which caused a war that caused Apple to persue the PowerPC that is used in the 360.

BTW isn't the 360 the XBOX 360 a MICROSOFT product? Microsoft was created to work with computers, and was just about to shut its doors(GO OUT OF BUSINESS), before it got a license request from Apple! THAT was over 30 YEARS ago! YIKES! NOW you did it. I feel ANCIENT!

SO, even if you were right(about the meaning intended), you would have been wrong(about being able to play the 360)!

Without the Internet, I never would have met my friends on the Siamese site. I would miss that.

It wouldn't be a big deal, I'd just hang out at home with the couple of friends I have now if I felt the need.

Ham radio.

Well if we take this further then you could say the lack of computers and internet could put some members out of jobs.

Ok how about this, I would then build computers and the internet.

Nope! I had interests BEFORE computers! My GOAL, since I was 5 or younger, was to be an electronic engineer!

I'd be on the phone yapping all day, or on the motorbike or push bike. Doing more constructive things I think. But I couldn't imagine life without them now.

I would die. I can't live without the internet or computers. But if they haven't been invented yet I don't know what I would do. Maybe read more books and draw even more than I do already.

I'd go back to drawing, and writing, and making clothes again. The internet sucks up a lot of my creative time, now. Pity.

There's a myspace bumper sticker with a guy hugging his laptop a little maniacally, "I love my laptop, my friends are here." Some of us are old enough to remember life without computers. Sad, eh?

Probaly die. I don't need to socalise whatsoever but I have countless powerpoint projects I work on all the time. If I can't work on them I get super anxious and depressed. I'd probably reinvent the computer myself.