what would you do if the internet was GONE?

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Perhaps why my mother had eleven brothers and sisters?

I guess that was a big reason why families tended to be so much bigger way back in the day. no way [other than prayer] to reap crop failure after sowing the wild oats.

I can remember in the 80's there was a huge promotion of the condom, with women even encouraged to wear condom earrings on a night out, spraypainted in bright colours.

as spock might say, "fascinating..." 1965, btw, was even before spock became widely known.

There would be no spam on forums because there would be no forums except maybe in parliament and I wouldn't know what an auntblabby was except maybe an actual aunt who was particularly verbose and I would probably be reading a book or something and I certainly wouldn't be drunk because I wouldn't even be a twinkle in my daddy's eye.

^ Haha, that makes no sense at all!

no spam in '65? how 'bout vegemite?

Spam of the edible??? inedible??? variety is best forgotten.
I love Vegemite!
- I know shopping was simpler. Only tomato or BBQ sauce. Only Rice Bubbles, Corn Flakes and Weet-bix. Not 200 different varieties to make your head spin. I remember my mother being able to buy chicken drumsticks that weren't attached to a chicken but came with other drumsticks by the kilo for the first time.

vegemite's pretty rare this side of the pond, one specimen landed in my local "shop 'n hop" scratch and dent store somehow, I tried it and it was nice and salty the old days were simpler, to be sure.

I picked "I'd marvel at all the extra time" -- although I actually remember the extra time for real!

Being that I was born in 1961, I'd just live those years the same way I did when I was actually growing up without internet, cell phones etc anyway. I vividly remember life before the internet and I got a lot more done!

Seriously -- before I personally bought my first computer, I did a lot more reading, a lot more of my other hobbies and interests and felt like life was fine.

The internet HAS made life a lot more convenient -- I still marvel at being able to pay bills instantly instead of write checks, stick things in paper envelopes and have to go out and buy stamps and mail the thing. I love the ease with which one can now research stuff instantly instead of haul my butt out to a library if I want to look anything up.

But before I had it I did many more other things that now suffer.

I still do a lot of the older-fashioned things like listening to music on a stereo system and not a puter or mp3 player. I pay bills the old-fashioned way by writing checks and stuffing 'em into stamped paper envelopes. I pay some bills by driving downtown and handing the lettuce over in person, for things like property tax and such. I don't have a kindle so I still read paper books. btw, did you know that the word "Book" is an acronym, it stands for "Bound Organization Of Knowledge."

I’m glad you clarified that, but I’m still a little confused by this topic. So, it’s 1965, 12 years before I was born, but I’m 37. Does the same apply to everyone else as well?
Where do I wake up? Our apartment block was built in the 1970’s.
Those who are now passed on but lived in 1965, are they back?
Is Erna Solberg prime minister like now, or is it Einar Gerhardsen? Will history repeat itself (or happen, as the case may be), or will it be a new and different timeline?

I’m not trying to be contrary, it’s just that my reaction will depend on a lot of things.
If I’m all alone in 1965, then the internet is the least of my problems! No network, no employment, no asthma medication, no good lotions for my extremely dry skin? No loved ones?
OTOH, it’d be easier to get work without qualifications, and I think there was more emphasis on how you did your job back then than how well you fit in.
It would have been very nice to see spend time in that era. I would like to re-live the 70’s and 80’s. I would like the music and the cars.

As far as entertainment goes, books would be around, but most of my fave genres would be in their infancies (if that) or be low quality. All of which would be a moot point, as they wouldn’t be available here anyway.
No video games either.
I would have a harder time emerging myself in my interests, that’s for sure.

But on the plus side, a particular law hadn’t been passed yet, so I could go get myself some pet turtles!


I did that too, back in the 1990’s.




I find that to be the same for me too. I don’t remember new things as well as I used to, and it started with everything being a click away. Now it seems like anything more than a few seconds to get an answer is insufferable. That would be a hard adjustment.

Considering the scenario my first thought would probably to try and find out how I got in 1965. But for the rest, probably read books a lot a more.

I LOVE my paper books!! !! That is one thing I can't go digital for. There is something about the entire sense-experience of holding a physical book in your hands, feeling the paper warm under your thumbs, smelling the scent of the pages waft to your nose, that I love just as much as the content I'm reading.
I'm glad to give up mailing stuff and writing checks, but I'm with you all the way on the books!

I guess I wouldn't even notice any difference with how things were when it was 1965 the first time. I would just continue as if nothing happened. How do we know we didn't wake up this morning being translated 200 years into the past? We're just continuing 2015 the way it was the first time.

*sings like Kelly Clarkson

"My life....would suck...without yooou....Internet"