Is the Internet an addiction?

[dizietsma]

Say I turned off the Internet for 1 month, would you just do something else or just suffer badly?

 

[digitalwanderer]

Yes, yes I would.

 

[zed]

Ive gone without it for a week or so a few times over the past few years & I miss it like for half a day & then no more. Not as bad an addiction as coffee or alcohol etc
Funny thing is once I get back on it (in fact I sort of dread going back on it), its like ho hum (nothing much has changed, well obviously)

 

[AlNom]

I would write that book/series of short stories I've wanted to write.

 

[Mize]

I would write that book/series of short stories I've wanted to write.

On a manual typewriter no doubt

 

[AlNom]

I think it's still in the basement... XD

 

[digitalwanderer]

I have an IBM Selectric beating around here somewhere, great machine.

 

[John Reynolds]

I gotta admit, after returning from a 10-day vacation in Florida with no internet access at all, I really didn't miss it that much. I don't post on forums as much as I used to (died the GPU wars have for me), I'm not into PC hardware like I once was (the magic of building your own computers and making them run has long faded. . .nothing like doing hardware reviews for years to burn that thrill away), and I could get the news via the old-fashioned means of TV and newspapers.

Gaming, however, that I did miss.

 

[Mize]

NOT a manual typewriter though.
I have the one (in mint condition) that my Dad used in Law School back in the 50s and that I used in high school (in the 80s)