Can you imagine your life without internet?

Life without the internet? It's a loaded question. Taken at face value, yes I could live without the internet. Most of my internet is spent 'at play' - nattering on Facebook, writing and rating reviews, entering competitions and so on. I wouldn't like it, but at a push I could give that up - my theory was tested actually over Christmas 2010, Sky had ballsed up the installation and we were without the internet for nearly three weeks. We bought a dongle but the signal was so poor (as in you could only get the internet while standing in the corner in the kitchen) that we gave up once the initial ... more

Do we need the internet?With the internet... We got Greedy The internet is a powerful thing. We all want world domination and we can have it at our fingers tips. Quite literally. We can do pretty much anything - buy a car, listen to music, looks at our friend's photo albums, watch a film, find a lover, write a review ;) With the right knowledge of coding and HTML, we can also create our own worlds. It's a scary thought when put like that. We got Lazy The internet makes it easy to spend more time sat on our bums, and not getting the same daily exercise. Prime example of this; shopping. Nowadays ... more

So, since the american military and a certain Tim Berners Lee decided to combine forces, the human race has been subjected to what is coined as 'The Information Superhighway'. The Internet. These very words you are reading this instant would not to possible without this mass of circuits boards, disk drives, wiring and bizarre languages, and over the last 20 years the world has made the Internet the controlling hub of all human concerns, albeit government, military, commercial or personal. Like a creeping vine, the Internet and it's incorporated troublesome offshoot, the World Wide Web, has ... more

Could there be a more ironic competition title guys, most of us not having a life because of the internet, the days of going out in the week to catch a gig or a movie a thing of the past for most, the pirating everything for nothing attitude and online porn the easier option. If you want to ten pin bowl or Laser Quest then go to Facebook apps and do it for nothing. You tap it into Google and there it is! Only students go out before Friday night these days (apart from those irritating ‘numpties’ on the BT advert). The internet and slumping in front of the telly or webcam is most people’s lives ... more

Intro I have no need to imagine life without the Internet, for I can indeed remember the days when no such thing existed, well not for us mere mortals anyway. I’ve sat and watched its rise of popularity until as now it has overtaken out lives. A few years back this was not the case, but the Smartphone now means that the Internet can be with you anywhere, anytime, anyplace, and I for one am not so sure that is a good thing, although I’d also have to say I am a big fan of the Internet Days gone by In days gone by if you required to find out some information the local Library would most probably ... more