what would you do if the internet was GONE?

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Let's see... there are really no people close by I can really visit and spend time with... no real places I can go to socialize, and wouldn't be able to socialize with them anyway...I can't go anywhere that's halfway-decent without a car... my mother is about the only relative who visits me once a week...
I have hobbies and things but I don't always feel like doing them, or I can't because I'm unable to get the supplies needed for my hobbies...and everything on TV sucks.

Can a person literally die of boredom?

I would think that my natural curiosity would compel me to walk around and adsorb what my home town was like 25 years before I was born. However, I can safely assume that my curiosity would be outmatched by my uncomfortableness with people at which point I would find the nearest library which shall act my my replacement internet and I would never leave. During the day I would scavenge for food among the other visitors while at night I would read by candle light all the collected works that were on offer.

I am now starting to wonder if the strange and scruffy looking old man who always seems to be at the library is in fact me who at some point actually did find himself back in 1965 and no one has yet informed him/me that the internet did actually get invented after all and I can go home and check my email.

Film of relaxed deviceless people.

A few caveats while pre internet this was filmed in the 70's not 1965. While it was filmed in New York City for the most part it was not filmed in the many crime, grime, decaying areas which was the hallmark of that era in NYC. While it may not be representative of the New York of that era it does demonstrate a theme of this thread.

I take back my initial post. Now that I've had some thought-- if the internet was gone and it was 1965, well, I'd invent the internet. I'd make lots of money, invest it in creating a company called Microsoft, a shell company called Apple, and a project called Google. I would hire every available programmer and crush any computer company, including IBM since well I'd be Microsoft. I would also get Prescott Bush kicked out of congress with my money and his son George Bush thrown in prison on trumped up charges of some sort and get his grand children expelled from their ivy league schools so they couldn't assume power. I'd also invest in Hollywood to keep Ronald Reagan doing something he didn't completely suck at: movies. I'd run a modern style media blitz until 1968 featuring only one commercial that merely showed Nixon saying, "I didn't take money from that family, I am not a crook" juxtaposed to his sweaty, grimy looking face during the Kennedy debate. After that I'd give most of my money to planned parenthood with the strict terms that there be a planned parenthood on every block in the republican suburbs. The remaining money I would use to get a young Bill Clinton arrested for inhaling and get Hillary kicked out of Wellesley. I would die destitute and alone in about 1970, but I'd know that I made the world a better place and feel content.

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wow that's a pretty tall order of business in a short amount of time, no?

yeh, imagine if the internet and home pc revolution took place 20 years earlier.