After another outage yesterday and lots of websites being unavailable etc, I’ve been pondering this - if you woke up tomorrow and the internet was gone completely with no chance of it being restored, what would you miss about it? And what would you be pleased about? I’m not talking about if the internet never existed, because you wouldn’t know what you were missing in that scenario.
For me I’d miss:
The ease of keeping in touch with friends through WhatsApp, etc
Gifs
Being able to read the news at my convenience without having to buy a newspaper or watch on tv at a designated time
Mumsnet
Online only games
Working out what else I’ve seen that actor in when watching a new show
Streaming tv/music
Being able to work from home
Benefits I can potentially see:
Might make me see friends in person more frequently if we can’t catch up with a WhatsApp anymore
Increased pressures to look and act a certain way might be gone
Online bullying - I won’t miss that!
Trades might see more people studying them as less people will be able to fix things themselves without a YouTube tutorial to show them what to do
I’m sure there’s loads more - but I’d probably then say everyone else’s too!