This was something that I recently saw trending on Twitter. I have thought about it and did not come across it until now. The internet to me is very important, I cannot imagine my life without it. So to think that there was a world where it did not occur, it is just hard for me to picture.
My parents have told me on multiple occasions that they grew up without the internet and were able to survive without it. They had to actually go to books in their school libraries and find out the answers to their questions, they could not just google it like we would have done today. So I think that probably was challenging for them, but it was all they had at the time. It was their normal.
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They also had to handwrite everything, including citations. I do not know about you, but me and EasyBib are best friends, copy and paste then boom there's my citation in one click. To me, I just could not fathom having to hand write everything down on a sheet of paper. But that is what they had to do back then, it was all a different learning experience without the internet!
I think that it would be cool just for a day for everyone to live without the internet. Most certainly, I would want to watch everyone around me and see how they would be surviving without the internet. Yes, the internet would also include phones if this were to happen because all of our apps on our phones can be accessed online in some form and because well duh there's also google, that is also internet.
I guess we truly will never know what it is like to live in a world with no internet. But it is nice to know that we have evolved as a society since then. I think that having the internet now has made a huge impact so far. Nevertheless, I do think that it is important to not use the internet when we don't need to use it. But when we do, I hope that we will always remember that we are lucky to live in the age of the internet!
