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The internet

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Was the world better without it?

I love the 'information superhighway' as it was once known for information and connection.

I grew up having to walk to libraries (using microfiche or books) or read newspapers and magazines if I could afford them, for my information, especially current affairs.

TV was sometimes available but the limited channels gave a narrower bias than these days.

I was dependent on 'experts' like doctors for diagnoses (or the occasional book written by these 'experts').

A lot of walking around shops to be done too (which of course the internet is killing).

There was also the option to ask people questions and try to sift their sometimes dubious replies.

However, it facilitates crimes to a rather horrendous level.

It also isolates people and childhood appears to have drastically changed because of it.

What do others think?

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  • I met the internet when it was young, back in 1997 or so. 

    Soon after there was a debate about how "cookies" work and I knew it was going to be "Tricky".

    It allowed me to be a part of a multi-national collabration that did some work in the field of nuclear fusion and hasgiven emteh answers to many things I would never have got answers to under the old system. 

    The internet also has allowed us unprecedented access to the hidden world of our leaders and other "icons" and has allowed me personally much greater facility to examine alternative ponts of view than my own, and obtain life saving briefings in the event of, say, a disease outbreak or other significant events.

    It's also exposed me to a LOT of sheer usless rubbish, made buyig stuff we do not actally need, vastly easier and more tempting through teh targetting advertising and profiling that most of you submit to, largely unaware of it's depth and pervasivness. 

    Then there's the porn... An essential part of teh plot to destroy western males (according to the LURID CONSPIRACY THEORIES mostly set to distract and ensnare anyone who's vaguely awake and concenred about the world they live in. I watched a guy lying his face off teh oethr day, about an event that he claimed was going to happen yesterday. WHY do they do that?? 

    I do fidn teh internet far more interesting that TV programming though and there's loads fo stuff telling you how to fix things so it's not all bad scary and mad.

    Dunno why I wrote this really, it'll most likely be a week before it appears.

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  • I met the internet when it was young, back in 1997 or so. 

    Soon after there was a debate about how "cookies" work and I knew it was going to be "Tricky".

    It allowed me to be a part of a multi-national collabration that did some work in the field of nuclear fusion and hasgiven emteh answers to many things I would never have got answers to under the old system. 

    The internet also has allowed us unprecedented access to the hidden world of our leaders and other "icons" and has allowed me personally much greater facility to examine alternative ponts of view than my own, and obtain life saving briefings in the event of, say, a disease outbreak or other significant events.

    It's also exposed me to a LOT of sheer usless rubbish, made buyig stuff we do not actally need, vastly easier and more tempting through teh targetting advertising and profiling that most of you submit to, largely unaware of it's depth and pervasivness. 

    Then there's the porn... An essential part of teh plot to destroy western males (according to the LURID CONSPIRACY THEORIES mostly set to distract and ensnare anyone who's vaguely awake and concenred about the world they live in. I watched a guy lying his face off teh oethr day, about an event that he claimed was going to happen yesterday. WHY do they do that?? 

    I do fidn teh internet far more interesting that TV programming though and there's loads fo stuff telling you how to fix things so it's not all bad scary and mad.

    Dunno why I wrote this really, it'll most likely be a week before it appears.

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