What would you be doing right now if the internet never came into existence?

Being stupid.

i will tell you as soon as my quantum computer is repaired.
calculating the movements and interactions of all particles in the universe for several decades in your head is quite hard.

Sleeping or watching baseball.

Reading more books
Playing more sports
Making more love
Watching more movies
Doing more work
Typing a lot less

Reading a book. Having a little spa night with a facial mask, hair treatment, nail polish. Watching a movie with my husband. Talking on the phone. Writing a letter!

I remember the good old days of having a life. (I’m completely addicted to the internet.)

Folding laundry. Emptying litter box. Preparing for bed. I am about to do all that. MIlo is filing his nails and waxing his whiskers.

Be unemployed

Doing what I am doing right now (sitting by a fire listening to all the bugs) except I wouldn’t be using this iPod touch.

@jonsblond: Fire? FIRE? It is 85% and 100% humidity here. (So much rain that brooks, creeks and ponds are overflowing, flooding and taking my newly graveled driveway to the Hudson River.)

@gailcalled It’s 67 degrees right now. Central Illinois just had the coolest July on record with an average temp. of 70.6 degrees. Come roast a marshmallow with me!

@mirza hey me too! haha

Darning socks, most definitely.

typing out my mail art zine on my IBM Selectric to be Xeroxed and sent out to my mail art compatriots, drawing, doing collage from magazines, and probably still working on oil paintings.

As for researching stuff, you’d find me at the local library. I’d also still be watching that damn box known as a television. My computer has replaced that particular form of entertainment.

I’d be very busy inventing the internet.

At this very instance I would probably be sleeping or reading the book I’m supposed to have finished 2 days ago.

Crying.

reading
cleaning
and a million other things

I’m sure I’ve answered this one before. I would be making the gifts for charity auctions and fairs, just like I used to do. I would have handmade greeting cards coming out of my ears, instead of barely making enough to cover the birthdays in my family, I would go back to doing volunteer work in the senior centers, or with the youth groups like I used to, I would walk my dog every day, and lose the extra 40 pounds I now carry. I would be making the reuseable, reversable, washable grocery tote bags like I used to. I would finish the half dozen or so quilts I have half made. I would have knit a blanket for my two youngest grandsons, the only ones who didn’t get one.

whittling?

Killing hookers with an old freezer door and throwing the corpses on the lawns of people I hate.

@boots best.answer.ever.

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 Thank you.

I’d be much further along the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list…

Sleeping.

Most evenings I’d have been reading a book or composing a letter at the typewriter. I used to carry on a heavy correspondence; now most of it is e-mail. I still do read every day. Back then I also used to watch TV about once a week.

Some evenings, I’d be engaged in a sewing project while listening to music, usually opera.

Oh, and when the children were little, it was all about them. Baths, games, storytime. Laundry.

Sleeping.

Reading. And I’d have more reason to quit my job to find something that doesn’t involve me being in front of a computer.

doing what I should do more of…studying

Going cold turkey repeating my favorite mantra over and over, frantically searching a printed (!) phone book and figuring out when the next Netjunkies Anonymous Group meeting is taking place. Why are they not listed?? I knew it, I always knew it! Print is dead. Help! Anybody? What? Netjunkies Anonymous meets online only? You must be kidding…

Staring at a blank screen.

maybe finishing that tim o’brien book. not knowing a lot of the words to the song i’m listening to. probably not knowing about the show i’m going to tonight.