Question of the Day, March 21, 2010

[The Escapist Staff]

Question of the Day, March 21, 2010



What's the longest you could go without any internet access at all? (Assume you don't need it for school or work.)



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[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Kollega]

A week shouldn't be too hard for me. A day would be normal. A month, though... no.

 

[MurderousToaster]

I could go around a month before I started going insane.

 

[Aunel]

as long as I want, or if you rephrase the question "live without computer" it will be longer, I have my bass notes on my computer damnit!

 

[Disaster Button]

Maybe a week, more if I were chained to my wall or had something els einteresting going on.

 

[bjj hero]

I spent the first 18 years of my life without it so I think I'd be fine.

 

[hazabaza1]

No internet? Ha. haha. Hee hee heehee[sub]heeheehee[/sub][sub][sub]heeheehee[/sub][/sub]

I would go insane very quickly.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Well I managed 6 weeks while I was camping in Italy. It was fine till I got home and had nearly 1000 FB messages =/

 

[Lazy Kitty]

A few hours. Meaning those hours I sleep.
Except when I leave my PC on to finnish downloading something.

 

[Rhayn]

Considering most of my uniwork goes through the internet, a week before I started to fall behind seriously.

Excluding school, a month. I've gone that long before. I have quite a few singleplayer games to entertain myself with, and the 5 hours per day I spend online would do wonders for my guitarplaying. That said, I get all my news and such through the internet, so it'd be like living under a rock. Newspapers are great and all that, but quite expensive when you're already barely surviving with a student budget. The internet is great in that way; easy access to the rest of the world.

With enough money to buy new singleplayer games (assuming everything doesn't go over to Ubisofts Nazi-DRM), and a way to get news from the world, I could probably go without it for years. It'd take some time to adjust, but entirely doable. Would probably cave in when ME3 is released and I needed the DLC for it.

 

[Kermi]

I went without internet for a week when I moved house. I was able to use it for about an hour a day at work before work/during lunch. Would not like to do it again. Without using it at all? Gah, I'd barely last a weekend!

 

[The_Decoy]

Excluding uni work (and my part time job) I could go without pretty much indefinitely. I would need a tv though, and a licence, so that would suck. Internet is more like another way to waste time than anything else (such as now, when I'm supposed to eb doing a lab report...). Would also buy a PS3 most likely, only console I've got here is my wii.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Fairly long, it'd become easy after a week. Think of that as the withdrawal period.

 

[Keava]

Pretty much couldnt for too long, after all my job requires that i have pretty contanst source of news/discussions to follow on and internet is currently the best medium for it. Sure i could just buy 20 newspapers each day but that would be bit expensive.
For the pure 'entertainement' puproses however can get used to lack of it after day or two

 

[ItsAPaul]

Not using it for 5 days while on a cruise was pretty rough, though tbh a cruise with family should be 3 days tops.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Well, the longest I've been without the Internet ever since I started using it actively is one to two days... I think I might have a problem.

 

[Swaki]

we dont have internet at the vacation house and I'm usually up there for about a week at a time, going to spend my 9 day easter vacation up there, but if it was any other time or place i would probably be really cranky the first couple of days and either check into another hotel or go home at the fourth day.

i need my interwebs!

 

[samstewiefisher]

I use it everyday from work to chillin out readin the escapist. Going with out the net wouldnt really be an option.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

When my PC got fried in a power surge last summer i haven't used one for a week, than finally i had to use my dad's laptop, so there you go, a week without internet and/or PCs altogether.