why would you want to live without it when it is presented like this?

OldFriends4Sale said:

benni said:

My job requires the use of internet. Everyone's medical records are on some type of digital program now. I have to have my job to survive, buy food, pay house payment, pay car payment, insurance, gas, so probably not.

But personally, unless I find a good topic on here that interests me and keeps me entertained for a little while, I'm not on the internet the way I was a few years ago. There are days/nights when I don't even turn on my computer and I refuse to use my phone as a computer. I used to talk with a friend daily online - he's across the country from me, but we don't chat any more. Life, work, other responsibilities get in the way, so there isn't much need for me to be on the internet anymore. So, yeah, I could. But I could keep my GPS right? I have to have my GPS for work. And I don't want to go back to using paper maps. Trying to fold those things

come on now, those paper maps were fun, lol it brought people together. It was learning time lol

LOL! I'll keep my GPS, thank you very much! I had nightmares about those maps.

benni said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

come on now, those paper maps were fun, lol it brought people together. It was learning time lol

LOL! I'll keep my GPS, thank you very much! I had nightmares about those maps.

In the mountains of Northern New Mexico, a GPS can get you into a lot of trouble. You could even die. No one, and I repeat NO ONE who lives in places like that goes anywhere without a paper map or atlas in their car.

RodeoSchro said:

In the mountains of Northern New Mexico, a GPS can get you into a lot of trouble. You could even die. No one, and I repeat NO ONE who lives in places like that goes anywhere without a paper map or atlas in their car.

Over here, we're constantly telling idiots not to reply on GPS apps and the like, and to take maps and compasses with them if they head out into the mountains/forests. And that they should know how to use them!

You are all addicted, get real.

OldFriends4Sale said:

why would you want to live without it when it is presented like this?

.

That is one sleek, beautiful surveillance device.

RodeoSchro said:

benni said:

LOL! I'll keep my GPS, thank you very much! I had nightmares about those maps.

In the mountains of Northern New Mexico, a GPS can get you into a lot of trouble. You could even die. No one, and I repeat NO ONE who lives in places like that goes anywhere without a paper map or atlas in their car.

Remind me not to go to Northern New Mexico!

OldFriends4Sale said:

benni said:

My job requires the use of internet. Everyone's medical records are on some type of digital program now. I have to have my job to survive, buy food, pay house payment, pay car payment, insurance, gas, so probably not.

But personally, unless I find a good topic on here that interests me and keeps me entertained for a little while, I'm not on the internet the way I was a few years ago. There are days/nights when I don't even turn on my computer and I refuse to use my phone as a computer. I used to talk with a friend daily online - he's across the country from me, but we don't chat any more. Life, work, other responsibilities get in the way, so there isn't much need for me to be on the internet anymore. So, yeah, I could. But I could keep my GPS right? I have to have my GPS for work. And I don't want to go back to using paper maps. Trying to fold those things

come on now, those paper maps were fun, lol it brought people together. It was learning time lol

The Thomas Guide was my best friend. They don't even make those things anymore iirc.

benni said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

come on now, those paper maps were fun, lol it brought people together. It was learning time lol

LOL! I'll keep my GPS, thank you very much! I had nightmares about those maps.

lol I had to learn fast because my dad would only seem to ask me to read the map when he was lost and turned into a drill sargeant

I think it is a good skill to know though,like writing out a check or writing a signature

which a lot of youth don't know how

Lianachan said:

RodeoSchro said:

In the mountains of Northern New Mexico, a GPS can get you into a lot of trouble. You could even die. No one, and I repeat NO ONE who lives in places like that goes anywhere without a paper map or atlas in their car.

Over here, we're constantly telling idiots not to reply on GPS apps and the like, and to take maps and compasses with them if they head out into the mountains/forests. And that they should know how to use them!

I think this was a week or two ago

morningsong said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

come on now, those paper maps were fun, lol it brought people together. It was learning time lol

The Thomas Guide was my best friend. They don't even make those things anymore iirc.

Those Thomas Guides made the world seem so much more interesting

RodeoSchro said:

benni said:

LOL! I'll keep my GPS, thank you very much! I had nightmares about those maps.

In the mountains of Northern New Mexico, a GPS can get you into a lot of trouble. You could even die. No one, and I repeat NO ONE who lives in places like that goes anywhere without a paper map or atlas in their car.

I and some friends left the City to do some camping in the Adirondacks and lost all signal up there, it actually had us going back south when we should have been going north

RodeoSchro said:

Most of us that remember life BEFORE 1994 have a far better chance of surviving without the internet than most people born after 1990.

Hey - this came out in the paper today, EVERYBODY PLEASE READ:

https://blogs.timesofindi...of-profit/

TonyVanDam said:

EmmaMcG said:

That's probably true but I think I'm the exception to the rule because I was born in 1990 but I'd be fine without the internet.

That's good.

that whole set up is nice right?

StrangeButTrue said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

why would you want to live without it when it is presented like this?

.

That is one sleek, beautiful surveillance device.

Of course I could, but I don't want to

domainator2010 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Instead of shelling out the money for a new phone (his upgrade was due in a month or two yet), he ended up using a flip phone.

Just to let everyone know - I don't have a smartphone! Sounds unbelievable, right?

I don't have a smartphone either! Never have. I had a flip phone up until about 6 months ago but I rarely used it so I let that go when the money on it ran out, now all i have is a landline.

.

Seems like most people (that I know anyway), family and friends, communicate almost exclusively through text messages so I am pretty out of the loop these days as nobody wants to call each other and actually *talk*. I'm of the generation that grew up with just landlines and so I would love for some of the technology to disappear and go back to simpler days where communication was more personal, but I know that time has past.

Oh I donno, me personally, I often feel like I cannot consume any TEXT anymore!! It would be so nice to get a LOOK at you, for example, and hear your voice...?

Of course, the answer to that, as I've told people multiple times around here, is http://appear.in , but no one seems to care....

I can survive without water an electricity. I am ironman.

SuperFurryAnimal said:

I can survive without water an electricity. I am ironman.

luv4u said:

SuperFurryAnimal said:

I can survive without water an electricity. I am ironman.

whatcha say luv4u... that's taking it to the extreme.

I have several family members who don't have Internet... shock, they are doing;OK.

Yeah, I could survive not having the Internet. Its a very convenient and powerful tool to have and use, but it isn't a necessity. People use to ask the same question about TV.

Several years ago the I.P.'s were pushing this notion... oh, you want be able to find or apply for a job if you don't Internet. Funny, the economy is booming where I live. Now you see interview Wed. & Mon., applications for jobs left on the counter-top or hung at the door with signs saying, "Help Wanted".

As far as the Amazon echo and all its creations. Never in my home: Spy machines with shity security. Its a matter of time before people get burned and badly... I'm on count down now.

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No way, I'd rather be dead than living without internet.