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53 years ago was the first time data was sent through the internet. it was only the 2 digits “LO” because the network could not deal with so much information (AKA to complete the word “LOGIN”) so it crashed after the first 2 digits.
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Nostalgia can be a powerful thing.
Have you looked at any of the movies to come out in the last year or so?
While nostalgia can be a fun trip to go on—letting you live in the past and feel like you did when you were younger, the lights were brighter and the sugar didn’t quite hurt your teeth as much—it can be damaging to the present. If your eyes are on the past, you’re not looking at the now.
That being said, there is a strange idea that what you went through in your youth might never be replicated now. After all, life goes on, and we’re never going back to dial-up internet service.
Thank goodness.
“What is something your generation got to experience that no other generation will be able to experience?”
“Going up in the cockpit to meet the pilots. Thanks terrorist, ruined it for everyone.” ~ paksman
“You’re right. In flight it’s a no-go for the vast majority of airlines that all fall under certain TSA regulations.”
“However it’s no problem while boarding, unless we are busy with something. Just tell the flight attendants right when you step on that you’d like to say hello to the pilots, or that your kid would.”
“The flight attendant will check with us really quick then let you come say hello. Usually it’s children and they get pictures etc…, but I’ve also had the occasional nervous passenger or curious individual.” ~ duprass
“If something bad happened to you, there was no video of it.” ~RoriksteadResident
“We would have absolutely ended up in jail had there been smartphones & social media when I was in high school.” ~ Jealous-Network-8852
“When good moments would become memories, instead of desperate attempts to whip out your phone and document every moment” ~ Guava_
“Walking over to a friend’s house because of boredom and knocking on the door. Them coming to the door to see who is knocking and discovering it’s a friend who dropped by unannounced and being happy.” ~ LurkJerk55
“Malls being the town hub. They were always really crowded.” ~ Ohsoeasy
“I remember going up to the mall to ‘hang out’ in high school. Friday nights the mall was packed with teenagers walking around, hanging at the food court, smoking ciggs out the main entrance, skateboarders out back.”
“Today’s kids buy everything online. Totally different world.” ~ PrincessPeach1229
“Video games that required cheat codes rather than credit cards to unlock features.” ~ Leesider1
“I remember when my mom figured out from a magazine we got at the library that you could cheat code Bill Clinton into NBA Jam on SNES. How 90s is that?” ~ iStealyournewspapers
“Changing the channel on the TV and having to go outside and turn the antenna until my older sister yelled ‘OK!’.” ~ NagromTrebloc
“Having to schedule things with your friends that either A, was well planned out in advance with very agreed upon meeting times, or B, waiting around the house to get a phone to call to set up the aforementioned plans.”
“Also knowing all of your friends and family phone numbers in your head so you could call from pay phones” ~ febreeze_it_away
“Not that big of a deal but I got to go home from school knowing there would be new episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark, Ahhh Real Monsters, Rockos Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken, TMNT, Mighty Max, Street Sharks, Kenan and Kel, All That, Angry Beavers…” ~ SimpinOnGinandJuice
“Porn mags hidden in the forest” ~ blindsniperx
“We were on a weekend Scouting trip and were hiking uphill on a paved road. We were fortunate that the Scoutmaster was up ahead and out of sight because I spotted something over the hill behind a tree.”
“We went down to check it out and discovered porn and pints of Iron City beer. Some of us ended up having an especially fun time that weekend. I suppose that we violated several tenants of The Scout Law.” ~ NagromTrebloc
“Being a kid and a teenager without social media.” ~ paksman
“I’ll add too growing up along with the internet evolving. When I was a kid there was no social media and basically no internet.”
“Around my late middle school/early high school years AOL became a thing. So we experienced the anonymous internet.”
“Everything was through user names. You connected with people on themed message boards.”
“Then came the personal but still a little anonymous part. Programs that let you connect with people you know but still in a semi private way. Things like ICQ, AIM, Xanga, LiveJournal, etc…”
“About halfway through high school came the first modern social media: MySpace. Learned a lot about connecting with people, music, etc…”
“It was opening the door to internet that was connected to your actual person. And all the top 8 drama that went with it.”
“When I went to college my first semester I couldn’t get on Facebook because my college had not registered with them yet. Spring semester they had.”
“It was a great way to connect with others in my college and stay in touch with friends at other schools.”
“Then we got to watch it all grow and become more sinister and become the influencer culture with instagram and tiktok. Also all the data collection and lack of privacy that seems unimaginable when I think of the early days of anonymity.”
“It seriously feels like I grew up along with the internet and got to go through all its phases too.”
“It’s been a unique perspective being on both sides of the internet revolution.” ~ dont_blink_angels
The old days might have been fun, but they’re gone.
Don’t forget to love and live in the present.
You might find it’s just as good as things used to be.
During the Super Bowl of 1984, Apple debut a commercial inspired by George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. The commercial was announcing the release of their first personal computer called the Macintosh.
But was the computer actually used to keep “Big Brother” and the threat of totalitarianism at bay like the commercial said it would?
We went to AskReddit to find out what people were actually using their new computers for in the mid 80s.
“People that had a personal computer in 1984, what did you actually use it for?”
Here’s a list that’s sure to spark some nostalgia.
“Lode Runner.” – John-Musacha
“And Wizardry!” – OneSidedDice
“And Archon.” – hossbeast
“I’m actually trying right now to get Lode Runner to work in my PC emulator I’ve been writing….” – valeyard89
“I remember a good friend of mine introducing me to that game. I can’t recall how many levels there were, but I think we made it in to the 120’s? We would challenge each other by making our own maps. That was a great game!” – MickeyRipple
“My father has a Mac SE with a Rodine hard drive that still works and plays lode runner (as long as you have the license disk!)” – stevebri
“Hunt the Wumpus.” – fireshitup
“Adventure international expanded on that if I remember correctly…” – Eticket9
“Got my first computer in 1983. A Commodore 64 with a 1541 disk drive and a dot matrix printer. I used it for homework (writing papers), but mostly for games. First game I ever played was Zork and the second was a game called Blue Max. (flying/shooting game)”
“By 1984, I also had a 300 baud modem and went online, calling BBSs and joining Q-Link in 1985. Q-Link would, in 1989, become America Online. But, it was mostly BBSs, because Q-Link cost money and the BBSs were free.” – BranWafr
“Zork is a text adventure, something that would’ve probably cost around $40. The computer itself was $595 at launch, but various retailers have cut the price down to around $99 in the 1990s.”
“You’ll also need a disk drive, which costs around $400 for a 1541 disk drive. The price would be just a little over a thousand dollars, at $1035. You would also want a display device, but normally you can use your home TV if it has an RF or composite output.” – pixdoet
“I loved Blue Max…that was a great game! I typed in SpeedScript from Compute’s Gazette magazine and used that word processor through high school and my first year of college.” – sdtopensied
“I remember seeing commercials for something I think it was called prodigy.” – Jolly-Idea-5079
“At the time the big, national online services were Q-Link, Compuserve, and Prodigy.”
“Soon after there was also GEnie, which I joined and where I discovered Babylon 5 since Joe Straczynski was a GEnie member and was talking about the show as he created it and filmed the pilot. That was a lot of fun…” – BranWafr
“Games, using bulletin boards.” – SlimChiply
“That’s about all there was then. Oh, and learning how to write code.” – jcpmojo
“Games mostly. But I also wrote a bowling league software package my dad used for around 8 years! Trs-80, Coco 3, Commodore 64.” – hagemeyp
“Yeah, I had my trash-80 as well. But it was a real computer. Originally has a cassette device for loading and saving software and ultimately hit a disk drive.” – Stay-Thirsty
“I had Trash 80s at school and a C64 at home. And my friend had an Apple IIe. I got to cover all the bases.” – BranWafr
“Learning to code in good ole BASIC. Playing games that you typed in from the back page of a magazine.” – xilog
“Spending hours typing them in, only to have it crash, then spending another hour going through line-by-line and finally finding one misplaced comma.”
“Of course, that’s assuming the programs worked in the first place. More than a few had typos, and those were the worst. Especially since the code normally wasn’t commented, which is a terrible practice to teach kids.” – APeacefulWarrior
“I had a commodore 64. I used it to print basic word documents that looked like a typed page and spent hours typing in program code from a book so I could see 3 balloons float across the screen in different directions.” – Dapper-Dance5549
“I remember when I was a little kid hearing stories of my grandpa spending loteral hours and hours typing a code just for a ‘song’ to play like 5 notes on repeat.”
“It was beeps also. Not atcual music like today. Sounded like those old Nokia ring tones. But just 5 beeps of a different pitch.” – TaintedTruth222
“I was in college and set up a Radio Shack TRS80 with a dial-up modem that connected to the University mainframe. While other kids were stuck in the computer lab (think rows of dumb terminals) late into the night, I sat in my apartment and did assignments any time I wanted.”
“Game changer.” – dartdoug
“Games, typing essays for school.”
“My teachers hated my dot matrix printer.” – I_only_eat_triangles
“Not porn.” – TheFutureIsAlmostNow
“No back then it was a tape.” – Jolly-Idea-5079
“You didn’t have copy of Strip Poker by Artworx?” – Amiiboid
“I also didn’t wait for it to download line by painstaking line.” – theriveryeti
“Tried to calculate 2+2. Somehow, I got a 5 as a result.” – EarlyGalaxy
“I had one at work as a process engineer for an electronic component manufacturer. On Lotus 1-2-3 (spreadsheet), I had to set calculations to manual mode from automatic. It would keep the machine from getting paralyzed after each keystroke.”
“I was tasked with getting an ultrasonic scanner mated to a fancy new x286 computer To replace our 1960s vintage analog scanner. What junk.”
“Way too much data for it to work. The cutting edge in computers was pretty blunt.” – Apical-Meristem
“I received a Commodore VIC-20 as a birthday gift in 1984. It didn’t even run on floppy disks; it had a cassette drive.”
“I used it to play Hangman and Galaxian and a couple other crappy games.”
“I could also write letters and print them out on the archaic dot-matrix printer. One page took about five minutes to print.” – filthy_lucre
“Making greeting cards and posters.” – throwawayb122019
“Xerox that ran CP-M. Had a really primitive spreadsheet program we used to keep track of union membership, dues, and print mailing labels. Still have it. Still works. Including the printer.” – ccie6861
“That’s funny. If you buy a printer today it will not last long.” – Jolly-Idea-5079
There wasn’t a lot people could do back then, because the technology was so new.
Games were still incredibly huge back then, but the internet hadn’t really started to get even close to what we know it to be today.
So much has changed in the past few decades.
It’s incredible to think we only used computers for coding, games and essays. Now, we hold them in the palm of our hand.
Do you remember when the internet was new? We had grunge, and dial-up and the computer was a mystery.
Can you believe how far we’ve come? Now the internet rules the world.
Those who can think back, admit it, we all kinda thought… “This will never last.”
How wrong we were.
But with growth comes massive change.
Redditor ransom0374 wanted to discuss the good ole days of the internet, a much simpler time.
“What do you miss from early internet times?”
Do you remember the time?
“I miss the wild unknown frontier that the internet was.”
“It seemed there was so much discovery to be had on the internet. And if you were good at the internet ‘Hackerman’ you were like a God amongst your peers.”
“It seems like there isn’t anything ‘new’ on the internet anymore. No discoveries to be made.” ~ SmallTownJerseyBoy
“I miss the look and aesthetic of old websites. Now everything is so clean and boring.” ~ LucianaLeak
“I personally like the designs from 2003/2004 for example. If you go on sites such as Spacehey or YTMND, they look very unique with the basic layouts of text and GIFs.”
“The moving text and how damn smooth it is, also appeals to me.”
“It looks very satisfying and futuristic. The crispy gifs always feel homely. And you could copy and paste images and icons that the site had.”
“But many modern sites, just not the “high-end” ones still allow you to do this.”
“Sites made for a Windows XP computer do look better than sites made especially for a phone.” ~ KappaMazinksy
“Variety. There’s a popular tweet that says something like ‘the internet has turned into four websites where on each one people share screenshots of the other three.’”
“I miss when you could search a term and there would be dozens of sites dedicated to it or forums especially for it. Now it’s just ads, Wikipedia, and Reddit.”
“Oh, and not having ads shoved down your throat every time you search a term or navigate to a page.”
“I know there were pop ups and banners, which weren’t any better.”
“There was a few years there where you could Google something and half the first page wasn’t sponsored ads, that had nothing to do with what you looked up, and you could go to a website and it didn’t block the page with a full screen ad asking for your email to join their mailing list, or save 10% on their merchandise.” ~ SociallyInept2020
“How people used to treat it.”
“The internet was, not just a novelty, but an amazing piece of technology that let anyone share anything.”
“It was so wholesome and loving, with everyone still being amazed at what we could do now.”
“Now? There’s so many websites that are designed to make you angry and radicalise your beliefs.”
“It’s quantity over quality. There was a time when nobody on Reddit shared politics, when Facebook was for socialising, when YouTube was where people uploaded stuff they were passionate about.” ~ CameOutAndFarted
“AIM away messages saying stupid crap like ‘BRB going to get some bagel bites.’” ~ fluffy_boy_cheddar
“Don’t forget to update your personal profile with Blink 182 lyrics and the initials of your school sweetheart and some ASCII.”
“Browse for a new inappropriate buddy icon and strike up a convo with SmarterChild.” ~ YOLOswagBRO69
“That all the webpages were just random people trying to figure out HTML.”
“There really wasn’t a corporate presence at all. You could click on a button and make a cardboard hand wave at someone’s cats.”
“You could dispense a coke from a machine in some dorm. It was dumb and fun.” ~ diegojones4
“The learning was endless.”
“There were almost an infinite source of information from all over the world.”
“If you wanted to find something all you had to do was search for it in Ask Jeeves or whatever and you’d find any website that had ever mentioned that thing.”
“There were more than 10 different websites. And at least it didn’t feel like I was being forced to sign up for a subscription after every click.”
“There were so many fun, cute stores to shop. Now it feels like everyone dresses and decorates the same.”
“I miss a lot of things about the early internet. I’m probably wrong, but it just felt safer than it does now?” ~ thatgirlfromthething
“AOL and Yahoo! chatrooms.”
“And the Population Zero forum (I think it was a forum). It was for a local band that attended Orange Glen High School in Escondido, California.” ~ Reddit
“I was in my late teens when the internet was becoming accessible to everyone.”
“Our one household computer was in the kitchen & facing in a way so anyone coming in could see your screen.”
“I remember looking at someone’s website and my Dad passing by to get something to eat, asking me if the person on the website was my friend.”
“I miss those old days! The internet seemed endless & friendly.” ~ LusciousofBorg
“I miss when streaming was a hobby and now everyone wants to make it a career.”
“Meanwhile for every streamer that makes a living, there’s tens of thousands with 0 viewers, or 1 if they’re logged into their own stream.” ~ Shadow_Bannedit
“The pure unadulterated wildness of it. This was the first video I was ever sent. Blew my damn mind. Lol.”
“It was funny, crass and anti-establishment. It was crap my parents wouldn’t, in a million years, let me watch.”
“But here it was, unrestricted and at my fingertips.”
“One thing folks born with the internet will never get to experience is that moment of pure joy when something as simple as a low quality and crass cartoon just blows your damn mind because of all the POSSIBILITIES it represents.” ~ Vanviator
“I can’t remember what it was called, but Yahoo had this great music video program where it showed popular artists, and some very unknown folks.”
“I discovered some of my favorite artists having it play in the background all the time.” ~ AtheneSchmidt
Oh, the good old days—they were wild and fun.
The internet is our bread and butter now. Can you even imagine life without it?
Do you want to?
We’ve all heard the advice to “not Web MD” our symptoms, as in, to not do a deep-dive of our own symptoms on the internet before seeing a doctor.
We could easily become misinformed or even scare ourselves with a disease we don’t have.
Fortunately for doctors, some of the situations they find themselves in are pretty funny.
“Doctors of Reddit, what was the dumbest ‘I read on the internet…’ moment you had with a patient?”
“I once had a lady come in who clearly didn’t believe in modern medicine, but had to see us for an official diagnosis for her disability application.”
“I remember she probably had fibromyalgia, admittedly a very difficult condition to manage. She presented me with a report written by a complete quack (and I use this term very rarely but it applies here).”
“This ‘practitioner’ had taken a strand of hair and run a ‘DNA’ test on it for some significant amount of money. The whole report went through all her symptoms and decided that because the patient had lived in a moldy house 10 years ago, all her symptoms were caused by residual mold in her body.”
“Specifically named her kidneys, heart, nervous system, and brain as having mold in. Then recommended a homeopathic remedy to fix it. The patient had swallowed this story hook, line, and sinker, and nothing I could say would dissuade her.”
“It’s the only time I have tried to track down a therapist of any kind to try to report them. Funnily enough, they chose not to respond to my e-mails or telephone messages.” – clickygirl
“Not a doctor. As a transplant recipient, I have to take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of my life. There are studies that some people do come off them completely, but it’s such a huge risk to take that it may trigger organ rejection.”
“A family member of mine still can’t grasp how a life-saving surgery provided by western medicine which initially saved my life, is still keeping me back from living my life. He suggested that I get off my immune suppressants because I am a cash cow for big pharma.” – mango_invasion
“You’d be amazed at how many people tell me (type 1 diabetic) that I could get out from big pharma and my dependency on insulin if I just eat right…”
“I’m skinny and otherwise healthy. Type 1 is autoimmune disorder that must always take insulin due to the pancreas no longer creating any on its own…”
“These conversations are often met with a blank stare by me.” – BearXW
“Conversation I had with a doctor a few days ago:”
“Me: ‘So I was told that if I can identify what food I am eating that is giving me gout I can avoid it and won’t have as many flare-ups, is that right?’”
“Doctor: Literally laughs out loud ‘Aaaaaaaaaaa no. Evidence for dietary-based management of gout is very sketchy at best. Take the pills. Where did you even hear that?’”
“Me: ‘Your nurse said it to me…?’” – reverendmalerick
“I suffer from gout. I was diagnosed with it last summer and had to go through various combinations of pills to work out strength and dose I needed to manage it.”
“Anyway, my Mum tried telling me it was because I drank too much beer. I ate too much red meat. All stuff she’d googled.”
“Doctor told me that they don’t fully know the cause and that he knows professional athletes that have struggled with it. I’m not saying I’m a professional athlete. But it made me better knowing it can be literally anybody.”
“On the downside. The bouts I have had have been some of the worst most consistent pain I have ever endured. I literally wanted to chop my foot off to stop it. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Gout is horrific.” – highlander2189
“Had a pt prescribed NuvaRing for birth control to be inserted vaginally. Ring lays around the cervix. She came in complaining it was too tight and needed a bigger one. Shows wrist, pulling on a tight ring to show how was cutting off blood supply to hand. “ – wereallmadh3r3
“Not a doc (nurse) but my doctor friend who works in the ER had a patient with a few garlic cloves stuck deep in her vagina because she had read on the internet it helps with certain infections and yeast.”
“(I realize garlic does have antibacterial properties but needs to be used appropriately and with caution.)” – Professional-Quote59
“As a general surgery resident on the colorectal surgery service, we do a lot of hemorrhoids, anal fissures, etc.”
“One of my colleagues prescribed a cream for a middle-aged woman and she later called back and asked if the cream would still work while she was on vacation in Hawaii.”
“Uh, yes it will, why? She replied, ‘Because I was told to apply it locally.’” – TypeADissection
“I’m an RN. A patient with diabetic foot ulcers read on the internet that salt would dry them up.”
“He put his foot in two plastic shopping bags w/rock salt & turned his foot into prosciutto basically.”
“Had to ‘carve/amputate’ most of his foot. He has forever been nicknamed ‘hammy’ by me.” – scottylynn77
“Had a patient come in with horrid cellulitis because they thought they read that putting dirt in a cut would help stimulate their immune system. It did for all the wrong reasons.” – captainspalding232
“I’m not a doctor, but I did take my very elderly Nana to the hospital after I showed up to her house and found her slurring her words and behaving very strange overall.”
“Now, my Nana is a major hypochondriac, and when she was admitted the first thing she told the doctor is that she believed she was experiencing the beginning signs of Parkinson’s.”
“It turned out that she had mixed up a bottle of non-alcoholic wine with a bottle of regular wine, had drunk the entire bottle, and was completely hammered.” – Pygmalion335
“My grandmother was not an alcoholic, per se, but she was accustomed to having a glass of wine in the evening. As the years passed on, one glass turned to two, two glasses turned to three, probably to help her sleep.”
“Given that she was living alone, we didn’t actually know how many glasses she usually drank, except that it had been increasing over time.”
“She ended up at a nursing facility at one point, and it was pretty clear she was deteriorating and would pass away in the coming months. The nursing facility wouldn’t allow alcohol.”
“With the anger and stubbornness that sometimes shows itself with advanced age, my grandmother was livid and just refused to accept this.”
“My mom talked to the nursing home staff. My mom basically said that she’s really sorry but grandma is adamant, she’s at the end of her life so a 12-step program isn’t really in the plan, and given that no one really knows what her previous alcohol intake was, they also weren’t sure what would happen in terms of detoxing.”
“The nurses said it was against their policy and they didn’t really have a choice, unless it was prescribed from a doctor.”
“So, my mom talked to her doctor, and the doctor ended up writing a prescription for 1-2 glasses of sherry every evening, which she had for the rest of her days.” – longjumpcamel
Though it’s important for us to be informed about how we can better take care of ourselves and stay healthy, there are certain instances when it’s better to talk to a doctor instead of the internet.
Clearly from these stories, there are instances where research will cause more harm than good.
North Korea, “world’s worst Internet black hole,” restricts Internet access to high-level Party officials and then only “to browse fan pages of the leading Kim dynasty”; in response, “North Koreans [are] buying properties close to foreign embassies in a bid to access their wifi.”
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He was frustrated with the fact that he had to go and ask his coworkers what data was on their computer so he can add it to his computer which led to him creating an application that became the world wide Web.
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The internet is really just a place where we go to fight with each other in new and innovative ways.
Luckily, some of those ways are actually funny, and some fighters use their knowledge and wits to make the battle as sophisticated and satisfying as it is brutal.
Such is the way with these particular entries. Players – start!
It’s fun to pair your heartlessness with insults so everybody knows right away you don’t actually care what happens to anybody who isn’t you.
Hey Tomi, Washington Post shithole bureau chief here. Love your foreign affairs reporting. Did you know there are 8.7 million Americans living overseas? Can’t imagine why they would leave home. https://t.co/Vazd6Ts3Pe
— Kevin Sieff (@ksieff) January 12, 2018
What I love about this reply is the the original tweet is gone now and it doesn’t even matter because it’s a one-size-fits-all rebuttal.
Buddy it’s saturday night and you’re talking to a marshmallow sandwich on the internet https://t.co/vniddPmGoC
— MoonPie (@MoonPie) December 17, 2017
I’ll bet you’d like a little of that splash now that ya burnt so bad, huh?
imagine waiting nine months to give birth and it's you
— Magikarp The Fish (@Magikarp_Fish) August 1, 2016
An absolute classic, the metaphor we all need.
The thing about gay marriage is that “believing in it” is irrelevant.
It’s just a thing that happens.
It’s not the Loch Ness Monster.
Ok but how though?
Seriously, everyone I grew up with used “they” as a gender-neutral singular all the time and didn’t have a problem with it until people started asking them to.
You walked right into that one.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
English is just a stew.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
We get it, you’re vaped.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
It’s five bucks dude, that’s like one beer.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
Shine bright like a diamond.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
No idea if this response is real but I want it to be.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
Let’s get way down deep.
Via: 50 Shades of Nerdy
Well I need to go fan myself off after all that heat.
What’s the best comeback you’ve heard recently?
Tell us in the comments.
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Reddit’s got a horrific scenario it wants you to consider, and then it’s gonna ask you to make a tough decision about it.
You ready? Prepare yourself. Here we go.
The internet is scheduled to go down forever. You have a week to prepare and download anything from the web you think is necessary to have for the rest of your life. What do you download and why? from AskReddit
So, the time constraint is the interesting part. That would mean that the biggest determining factor in how much you’d be able to get is how good your internet connection is.
My home PC, when plugged straight into the router, pulls down about 450mbps. Of course, actual download speeds are almost never that fast, because it depends on what the host is giving you, so let’s slow it down to 100. Allowing for a couple of hours of downtime each day of the week allotted, that means I could nab around 50 terabytes – assuming I ran out and bought some new drives so I had somewhere to put it all.
That’s way more than enough to nab all of wikipedia. Nice.
Let’s see what other nerds thought.
Every How-To book ever written.
At this point, the only way the internet is shutting down is if the world is ending.
Gotta know how to start over.
– cbite
The Pirate Bay’s top 100 in each category for the kneejerk shotgun approach.
After that an offline copy of Wikipedia, my entire GOG library, and everything from Project Gutenberg.
– Aperture_Kubi
Download all of the roms I would play
– ninjaboss1211
Maps.
I got lost in the middle of nowhere this summer, had no cell service or internet access, and realized it would have useful to have offline road maps on my phone.
Anyone have recommendations for a good and/or free source?
– BlueMacaw
Everything I need to know on how to build the Internet
– SubcooledBoiling
I’d start with books on how to live off grid. How to dig wells set up irrigation. Gardening and food preservation. 3D printer plans for all sorts of tools and equipment. Animal husbandry and everything I would need to set up my own cnc shop.
I would also be downloading science databases, sewing, leather making etc. I was 27 before I ever had access to the internet and I had already graduated with a B.S. and at first it was a novelty but I soon realized how powerful it was when I realized that you get access to a lot of knowledge that normally would be unavailable to the average person.
The internet became the ultimate do it yourself book.
– Maxtrt
That’s about 70TB I can download so I’d probably go with all the music ever made and then get rich selling bootlegs because everyone else is downloading wikipedia and p*rn.
– antaryon
All of the medical, history and math books that I can find.
And every song I can think of.
Aaaaand “Bartender – the right mix”
– JosheeFence
Well since I work in IT, specifically network infrastructure, I’ll be out of a job.
So I guess some books on welding or something.
– [User Deleted]
This is literally why I have about 3TB of lossless music copied to four different hard drives. I also have thousands of books too.
I simply do not need any corporation, record label, or anyone deciding how I consume music content for me.
I have a backlog of thousands of albums I will never hear even though the majority of the things I haven’t heard I very much would love to hear…just not enough time or motivation for it.
So, I guess if I had to, I would download whole albums of lyrics since I know where to get them and I’ve done that in the past. It’s an achievable goal.
– RageForOrder17599
A video of my dad talking to my first grandchild.
It is the only recording I have of his voice.
– katneedle
I find out who all these hot singles in my area are and why they want to meet me.
– Shinespark7
The real ones are going to use that time to commit all the cyber crime possible ( steal money, hack and steal information of bank accounts, financial statements, dirt on ppl etc)
it’s the ePurg
– -knight-who-says-ni
I would just invest in a good pair of prescribe glasses for reading.
I do not want end up like that dude from the Twilight Zone.
– davidwal83
Plot twist, everyone downloading everything is what causes the internet to go down.
– RedditUsername42
Honestly, thinking about this is just making me anxious, so I’m gonna stop doing that now.
But I’m curious – what would your answer be?
Tell us in the comments.
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Well, this promises to be interesting…
Kids and their access to the Internet has been a pretty divisive issue among parents for quite a long time now and I don’t think it’s going anywhere…because the Internet sure isn’t!
AskReddit users debated whether young kids should have access to the Internet. Let’s see how it went.
“They have no reason to have access to internet.
They will find information that will destroy their innocence
They will start being influenced by d*ckheads on the internet, e.g. Jake Paul.
Which will lead to a bunch of other problems.”
“They should have limited access.
When I was like 10-11 my parents monitored me but still let me have fun. Because of that I got to get into gaming, acting (online videos inspired me) and drawing (art you tubers).
Of course I found some edgy offensive humor and s*x jokes but kids still found out about those at that age before the internet.”
“I think that’s because really it depends on the child, how they were raised and how naturally vigilant they are. (meaning a lot of active internet people disagree because they turned out fine)
You can’t just say all children need to be monitored, but it may be good to check on ‘em now and again just to be on the safe side.
However it is doubtful you will successfully protect a 11-13 year old from losing their ‘innocence’. This is the age where children start to get curious end will look for stuff whether the parent likes it or not.
Really I believe it’s better to provide a safe environment where they feel they aren’t patronized, but you can be sure nothing really bad happens. The alternative being them sating their curiosity will mean being forced to look for it elsewhere and god knows what they will be exposed to.”
“We monitor our kids fairly closely, and my six year old watches a ton of videos on science and nature.
He probably knows more than me about some topic because of it and it’s really made him even more interested in space, geography, etc.
He also watches videos about video games, but the good has definitely outweighed the time wasting.”
“I wouldn’t agree that that is the right way to think of it. It’s like saying that kids shouldn’t read books because some books are not the correct content.
What I would agree with would be more specific. Certain material should be off limits which can be done quite easily with certain programs or firewalls etc. K9 web protection is maybe a good example.
I get what you are saying though.
But I don’t agree with cutting off their ability to watch Netflix (internet) maybe even Google cookie recipes (internet) say they like playing fireboy and watergirl (internet).”
“I suggest parental controls/monitoring your child – it’s kind of hard to block or monitor everything. Like YouTube, there’s everything from children’s cartoons to violence.
I’m not a parent so I don’t know how much it takes to monitor a child on a device, I’m sure it’s not easy though.”
“Good luck finding parents that will monitor their children by watching along with them.
Jake Paul is a famous d*ckhead that will get into your child’s head.
The classmates will try to make your kid watch his videos and in the end your kid will start to rebel you by seeing you as an overprotective chopper parent.”
“Watching my 9 year old son research how to mod Minecraft was amazing.
He literally uses computers and does research more effectively than many baby boomers I know.
He learned way more from that about research than he did at school.”
“I don’t possibly have the time to monitor their every internet usage.
Also, I don’t want or need to learn all the techno crap involved in blocking them from internet bad stuff.
I didn’t have internet at 12, they don’t need it either.”
“I would’ve agreed with this 15 years ago when the internet was much newer.
But nowadays a lot of schools are even use the internet for learning and teaching. There’s a lot of important content that they may need to have access to.
And honestly, the internet has become a part of our daily lives like electricity is. It’s no longer a luxury or this crazy new thing.”
“Overprotectiveness can end in negative outcomes too. Teach your child what is internet, how to use it as a tool and only as a tool.
Internet is a means to an end. It gives you basically 70-80% of human knowledge at the end of your fingertips. Helps you keep in touch with people who are tens or hundreds kilometers away.
Can give you entertainment. But it can also show you things toxic, or be used as a weapon.”
“Children should just be monitored by their parents. It’s really that simple.
There are many tools at a parents disposal to monitor child usage of a computer and of a web browser. If the parents are doing their job then the child won’t have access to anything detrimental to their psyche.
My child has learned so much that I am not capable of teaching him through monitored use of the internet.”
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