I'm losing interest in the internet.

[Job]

Seriously, over the last six months I just log on, read my mails, look at FH, BBC news, Telegraph, maybe Guardian, bit of Engadget, Boingboing..then I just repeat, hoping they have updated in like three minutes.
Do I need help?

 

[Gwadien]

I agree, bout time they invented something new

lazy cnuts

 

[old.user4556]

We take the internet for granted now, it's just a tool for 'stuff', nothing exciting about it anymore. Mind you, when I had a broadband outage earlier today I did feel like I was cut off.

 

[Gwadien]

We take the internet for granted now, it's just a tool for 'stuff', nothing exciting about it anymore. Mind you, when I had a broadband outage earlier today I did feel like I was cut off.

What's even more worrying is that people will actually become depressed if PC's/the internet dissapeared, its like, it has to be there, for ever. :|

 

[Wazzerphuk]

It was a spooky ghost!

 

[old.user4556]

It's like any mod con though; take away your TV, take away your car, take away your take away and you'll soon be missing all you're used to.

I remember back in around 1998 to 1999 feeling on the edge of the er33t because I had internet access and none of my mates did. They all thought that "chatting on the internet" was geeky, sad, lonely and lame but now it's being done by every Tom, Dick and Abdul at all hours of the day. Now the hoi polloi are tweeting, facebooking and chatting on MSN messenger - you're not cool unless you're on the net / have a smartphone.

Oh how things change.

If anything the web is no longer full of like minded people gagging for a game of QW or CS beta 5, it's now full of retards and wankers who just generally get on my fucking tits:

"Every time I check Twitter and Facebook I want to reach through the screen and punch people"

I couldn't agree more.

 

[Tom]

I feel sorry for people who've grown up with the internet, I'm sure many of them can't comprehend life without it.

 

[Uncle Sick]

I feel sorry for people who've grown up with the internet, I'm sure many of them can't comprehend life without it.

I agree. I didn't grow up with it.. but it's pretty much my social life these days.
And I would be a sad Panda without TF2 etc.

Besides - it's useful as hell. Dog got sprayed by a skunk the other night. Without the internet that poor pup would have stunk for days yet I found the cure within five minutes - had all the ingredients at home - e voila = dog un-stunk.

 

[Job]

I didn't grow up with the internet, but I did wait for it to develop, from my very first dabblings with transistors in plug-kits and reading electronics weekly, I
saw it's body develop and began to anticipate something like it.
A Nokia 5100 connected to a Casio EM500, running dial up internet was my first
smartphone and boy did you look like a geek getting that out on a bus..actually you would now.

 

[dysfunction]

When I first got the internet I went: "Aha! Yay for me! Now what?"

But when I got it there wasn't a proper browser or search engine available.
I had to use this funny software given to me by the service provider.

The internet now is just like having electricity or having a TV or a phone.
Use it as and when you need it

 

[old.Tohtori]

Just use it as an aid, not entertainment. PC is for gaming anyway

 

[eksdee]

Browsing websites to kill time and refreshing them five minutes later is what I do on a slow work day, but most certainly not what I spend my precious time away from work doing.

 

[Huntingtons]

It's like any mod con though; take away your TV, take away your car, take away your take away and you'll soon be missing all you're used to.

I remember back in around 1998 to 1999 feeling on the edge of the er33t because I had internet access and none of my mates did. They all thought that "chatting on the internet" was geeky, sad, lonely and lame but now it's being done by every Tom, Dick and Abdul at all hours of the day. Now the hoi polloi are tweeting, facebooking and chatting on MSN messenger - you're not cool unless you're on the net / have a smartphone.

Oh how things change.

If anything the web is no longer full of like minded people gagging for a game of QW or CS beta 5, it's now full of retards and wankers who just generally get on my fucking tits:



I couldn't agree more.

back then it was geeky tho, especially in 1950 when you tried it for the first time

 

[old.Tohtori]

By. The. Way.

You're losing interest in porn?

 

[Edmond]

PC was dead for about 3 weeks not long ago, i didnt miss it tbh. Yes i had my iPhone to pick up mail, but email is just the modern/easier way of communicating, rather than fax/phone

I use the work laptop everyday (am as i write this) but i dont usually browse on it, its for doing work, stuff that would have been done on a typewriter 20 years ago, so again, its just the newer way of doing it, as for the internet itself....meh

 

[Lamp]

Worry ye not. I heard a rumour there's going to be pornography on the internet within the next couple of years....imagine that!

 

[megadave]

I've grown up with the internet, I remember using it every day on primary school (no idea for what) but when I go away and don't use it for a while and I come back I always find i've missed absolutely nothing.

Although when we moved in to a new house and didn't have it, I'd find myself opening up a web browser every day without thinking for weeks

Worry ye not. I heard a rumour there's going to be pornography on the internet within the next couple of years....imagine that!

Not so sure, I don't think that'd be popular enough to be viable

 

[Job]

Devo - "Freedom Of Choice" - YouTube

 

[ST^]

reddit: the front page of the internet

Say goodbye to productivity.

 

[Calaen]

Too much out there, but you tend to stick to only a few pages.

Porn got boring once it was available whenever!

 

[megadave]

duh, wrong thread

 

[Zenith.UK]

Worry ye not. I heard a rumour there's going to be pornography on the internet within the next couple of years....imagine that!

I think you'll find there was porn on the internet before it was even called the internet.

I have my usual sites in a folder so I can launch them all at once. Once I've gone through my usual stuff, I start on whatever it is I'm particularly interested in looking for. If I ever start finding myself bored, I go log onto Ancestry.co.uk and plug away at finding more records of my ancestors for a while. Yes, I get enjoyment from a glorified database exercise.

 

[Job]

Actually I think for some time I was more interested in conjuring up strange gadgets that could get me on the internet in more and more obscure situations than actually doing anything with it once online.
I managed to run DAOC on a 4 inch XP flybook, which I bought for the sole reason for doing so, it was impossible to play, but that didn't wipe the smile off my face.

 

[Zenith.UK]

I did the same sort of thing with MAME on a HP Jornada 720 10 years ago.
Now there's a gadget ahead of it's time.

Internet boredom isn't something I suffer from because I can usually find something else to do (reading, watch TV, watch a movie, have nookie etc etc).