Could you live without the Internet for a year?

NUance said:
Dude Living Without Internet For a Year Will Prove What We Already Know: It’s DistractingDodai Stewart, July 20, 2012, www.jezebel.com

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Simple? Ha! Sounds like a huge pain in the a$$. As a stunt, it's a pretty good one, but it seems like Miller has already learned in three months what living without the internet for a year can do: He says he is much more productive, he writes more, and his mind is "less cluttered." And: "There is less to distract me while I am writing." Earth-shattering! Pretty sure all of us already know that the internet is distracting. It's full of amusement and wonder and horror and rabbit-holes of ridiculousness, endless gif walls and jpegs and videos and everything. Everything. It will suck your life away if you let it.

Still, maybe we can learn something from Miller without actually going cold turkey. He says: "I am definitely coming back to the Internet, but my goal is to be a little more in control and intentional in how I approach it."

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It'd be hard to go without the Interwebz for a year. I send/receive a ton of email each day--I would actually have to talk to people again. No instant weather reports at my fingertips. I'd need to figure out how to use paper maps again. Naaww, I don't think I could do it.
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Does Huskerboard have a 1-800 number???

 
AR Husker Fan said:
Slackers. I went decades without the Internet. All of the '60s, all of the '70s, all of the '80s...

Kids today. I swear.
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Well I don't think these days we could live in the woods as easily as you could back in your 60s. :)

I don't know what I'd do without my xbox live subscription...course the thought of gossipbook being out of my life for a year might be worth it...

 
i just moved to the country (kind of) and the internet here is super slow, i can barely survive just slower internet.

 
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