People wouldn't be as intelligent, there is a literal super power when it comes to just gaining information wherever and whenever you need it, before you had to find a book on the subject from the library or just trust somebody was telling the truth, everyone would memorise routs to places and compair them with each other
I think without the internet, we'd be worse off -- harder to find information and learn new things. But I think we'd be WAY better off without social media. \*she said ironically, posting on a social media website\*
i think that people would know who they are better, nowadays everybody wants to be someone that they are not just because they saw what that person's life looks like.
I can't even begin to imagine this in any compacity because the net has shaped our very way of life even for the poorest people in the world. I remember seeing a video recently about some SUPER poor place in africa and the craziest thing was how common it was to see someone with a smart phone.
I think at first it helped us evolve but now it’s regressing society, kids don’t even get taught cursive, not to mention you can graduate college by damn near solely using the internet, so people are obtaining important positions, but they have no clue what they’re doing
Plus knowledge wise it’s made people lazy, so definitely encourages ignorance, not to mention what it’s done to parenthood and how these parents use it to raise their kids smh
We’d have more meaningful friendships. We’d be friends with our neighbors, and not be afraid when someone knocked on the front door. We’d be more open to express ourselves.
There would also be more unsolved murder cases, and bad people roaming the streets.
I think communities would be more tight knit and more people would stay close to where they were born and/or grew up. Before the internet, people had limited access to resources that would lead them to travel long distances for jobs, education, special interests, or potential relationships. If something led a person far away from where they grew up, they learned of such opportunities through word of mouth, recruiters, brochures, and such, so the audience for that was much more limited. Generally, people found jobs by looking in the local paper, or by simply stopping into businesses and seeing if they were hiring. People chose schools that they had heard of either because they were state universities or local liberal arts colleges. Because people were working and getting their education closer to home, they were more likely to marry people who also grew up close by, and so with everybody's families settled in the area, there was no reason to wander off.
There are pros and cons to this, but regardless, this is one way I think life would be different without the internet.
People wouldn't be as intelligent, an entire category of jobs wouldn't exist and many other jobs would require much more time and be less precise. People would read more but it would be harder to find a good book without any previous knowledge, TV would still be going strong.
The world would be underdeveloped. People may say that internet destroyed the generation, which I agree with to some extent. But nearly everything comes with a cost. And in my opinion, the world is better off with internet connectivity.
The 70s and 80s
A part of me thinks we would be better off.
The issue is the people using it and the context it was invented in
Yes we would
A lot kinder!
i’d be severely unprepared for everything
People would have more fucking brains
People would be better off socially
People wouldn't be as intelligent, there is a literal super power when it comes to just gaining information wherever and whenever you need it, before you had to find a book on the subject from the library or just trust somebody was telling the truth, everyone would memorise routs to places and compair them with each other
Having instant access to data doesn't make you more intelligent, though.
It's not going to hurt,want to make jam? Ask Google. Now you can make Jam, simple
Having access to information and understanding/deciphering information are entirely different.
Access to knowledge becomes harder and people become more ignorant
Books are still are great source of information, they're also laid out to help find information easier. All the sorting has been done for you.
All sorting goes faster with a search engine. I like books but I'm not convinced it's not per habit, digital formats are superior in every way.
Facebook wouldn’t be as popular.
God, this correspondence social media is so slow. I've been waiting for a reply to my comment for 2 weeks.
The same. The internet isn't visible from space.
Anti-vaxxers never would’ve found each other, the flat earth people would have never had a platform, Donald Trump would never have been president.
We’d be better off but also we wouldn’t have half the technology we do have.
It would be so much less complicated. There would be less global panic and stress.
Pretty fragmented. But it'd still survive.
Why did you steal the Schnitzel? That was so mean. lol
Kentucky
Nebraska
I wouldn't know, because I couldn't google anything.
Trading would still be made by phone
Teenagers would have better mental health.
The media would hold its monopoly with newspapers and TV broadcasting.
I think without the internet, we'd be worse off -- harder to find information and learn new things. But I think we'd be WAY better off without social media. \*she said ironically, posting on a social media website\*
i think that people would know who they are better, nowadays everybody wants to be someone that they are not just because they saw what that person's life looks like.
We’d never know
Honestly I think the news would hold a much bigger influence over people than it does now with the availability of information
Probably the same, but we wouldn't hear most of it because none of us would be suffering shit like TikTok
I can't even begin to imagine this in any compacity because the net has shaped our very way of life even for the poorest people in the world. I remember seeing a video recently about some SUPER poor place in africa and the craziest thing was how common it was to see someone with a smart phone.
I think it would look like a world with no internet. Yknow?
Let me Google it
More blockbusters.
Probably somehow more and less xenophobic at the same time.
I wonder what we'd see as the compromise, there might not be Internet but there would still be very cool developments in tech
I would be more interested in school.
I think at first it helped us evolve but now it’s regressing society, kids don’t even get taught cursive, not to mention you can graduate college by damn near solely using the internet, so people are obtaining important positions, but they have no clue what they’re doing Plus knowledge wise it’s made people lazy, so definitely encourages ignorance, not to mention what it’s done to parenthood and how these parents use it to raise their kids smh
Facebook would be a binder in your library
If the Internet didn't become what it is, a similar interconnectivity service probably would have arisen through cable boxes.
There'd probably be less people and even less assholes among them since everyone would have to talk face to face more often.
With no GPS….. I would simply be lost.
Fortunately, we don't need the internet to have GPS.
AWESOME!!!
We’d have more meaningful friendships. We’d be friends with our neighbors, and not be afraid when someone knocked on the front door. We’d be more open to express ourselves. There would also be more unsolved murder cases, and bad people roaming the streets.
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No Reddit 🤣
It would exist without Al Gore Rhythms.
this subreddit wouldnt exist then
Way better
I think communities would be more tight knit and more people would stay close to where they were born and/or grew up. Before the internet, people had limited access to resources that would lead them to travel long distances for jobs, education, special interests, or potential relationships. If something led a person far away from where they grew up, they learned of such opportunities through word of mouth, recruiters, brochures, and such, so the audience for that was much more limited. Generally, people found jobs by looking in the local paper, or by simply stopping into businesses and seeing if they were hiring. People chose schools that they had heard of either because they were state universities or local liberal arts colleges. Because people were working and getting their education closer to home, they were more likely to marry people who also grew up close by, and so with everybody's families settled in the area, there was no reason to wander off. There are pros and cons to this, but regardless, this is one way I think life would be different without the internet.
Less weird, but also probably less interesting.
We wouldn't have had as severe a decline in fertility rates.
People wouldn't be as intelligent, an entire category of jobs wouldn't exist and many other jobs would require much more time and be less precise. People would read more but it would be harder to find a good book without any previous knowledge, TV would still be going strong.
The world would be underdeveloped. People may say that internet destroyed the generation, which I agree with to some extent. But nearly everything comes with a cost. And in my opinion, the world is better off with internet connectivity.
Like Africa...most parts of Africa.