If Internet was unknown to you......what would be your best enjoyment...........

We have become slaves alright. I always mange to unshackle myself to go for my evening strolls in the beach. If internet is not there I will sure read a lot more and watch plenty of Hollywood movies which I was doing full time before the internet. At times a period a little before that when I used to listen to the Binaca Geet Mala with the wonderful comments of Amin Sayani in a Holland Philips transistor hugged closely seems to be the most wonderful enjoyment in my life.

Hello DD, This is a very nice topic of discussion. Indeed our world starts and ends with Internet. The usefulness of Internet is undebatable, we all know what a revolution it has brought to the world! However, we are getting slaves to mice and the monitors and in the process putting on some gross weights and becoming couch potatoes. Children hardly go out and play these days!! This scares me a lot! I can go on and on and on but let's not digress. Being a reclusive person I just love listening to soft music and reading books (as you know). Internet has replaced books to a great extent and I regret it a lot. It's not the same reading e-books and real ones, isn't it! Going for a long walk is very alluring and good for health as well if it's a good picturesque surrounding. But that's a myth here in Calcutta!

Yes, you are right in a sense that we have become addicted to internet. Frankly speaking, broadband internet services has started here in Delhi only few years back. Previously, we need to go to various internet caffes to enjoy internet. But since I got it at my home, things have changed drastically ....and when I joined Mylot....things or say life changed every more drastically........LOL! and I find myself addicted to it. When it was not there, I used to listen to Radio, instead of watching TV. I still love listening to Radio, now a days it has imporved a lot. In yesteryears there were few choices, I would listen to short-wave stations like Radio Cyclon,BBC, Radio Germany and Voice of America etc. However, now a days, one can enjoy the luxury of listening to FM stations, which have started just few years back and Delhi alone, there are atleast 10 stations, where you can catch with latest bollywood, classical, Indian and western music. Moreoever, now a days even Mobile phone comes with in-built FM, so whenever I am feeling bored, I just switched on my mobile or transister to listen to nice melodies at any FM station. I love to read newspapers, magazines and story books. If I am alone, I find out the ways to pass my time. Reading gives me immense pleasure and it is an exercise to my mind also. So English or Hindi whatever interesting material is available, I go for reading. Excellent Post!

Yes apsara, you are right that we become slave of inyernet .But internet has give lot good things and friends to us. We know most of the friends due to internet only. If internet is there than we didi not know more about world. it is because of internet only we can communicate and get information about most of the things at any time. We all may not be good friends and too closed without internet and even unknown to us. If internet is unknown to me than I may stay with my small world of old friends and relatives. Iam totaly unkonwn about my sis. With out internet my best enjoyment would be TV particularly sports channel.

I like to do every weekend what we do back then when our son was little. Its feeding fish in a pond, watching them eat, going up a mounting and having a picnic by the mountainside, just riding around town in our scooter, nature trailing in the forest. But since he is a teenager now and has his own life, I take my time to do some craft projects such as crocheting, painting and parchment craft. Well, I can say I am not "yet" (and dont want to be) a slave of the internet as other are other beautiful things to do!

sports maybe.

That is a frightening scenario for me. In January of 2004, I was diagnosed with ALS. I am in a wheelchair, and I can't speak. If it weren't for the internet, I would have no link to the outside world. Friends and family have stopped coming to see me, so I would only have the TV to occupy me! http://www.ferncohen.com

Well, I was first introduced to the Internet in 2000 so I had alot of years without it. Before the Internet I watched a lot of movies, read alot and did a lot of crafts. I still do all those things although not quite as much but I still do. I don't ever see me giving them up either. !!HAPPY EASTER!! **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

I think I would read more. maybe watch more tv. maybe do a crosswordpuzzle, and get my aplications done faster. I like internet. I prefere it.

Well, me, I would be just as busy without the internet as I am with it! More than likely, I would just be on the cell phone a lot more! Every weekend, I usually take some time off to enjoy the fresh air and the beauty of nature!

In this past days, I am really too occupied to sitting in front of my PC and going around the internet cyber space. Well, if there was no internet, I'd go back to the basic, that is, reading and writing my journal on recycled notepads. Most definitely going to the nearby forest park for it. This time, though, we have wifi connections, we don't have it on areas where we could breath good fresh air, most of which are expensive coffee shops and restaurants. It is better then to stay in front.

Baking cookies and cakes is one of my favorite hobby and I used to do it often before I found internet.

yes we have became the slaves of internet.if i dont know internet.i like nature very much i will be taking photos of nature it is my hobbies.i love bike ridding.

Ive always been a bit of an indoor hobby person....before the net came along i did much more in the way of sewing /knitting/reading.. But the net tends to take over !!

I have life outside the internet, aside from working on a regular day job, I also enjoy time going out with friends and nature-tripping. The most interest that I consider as hobbies are reading and music, either playing or simply listening to my favorite music. I believe that the most wonderful gift that's been given to us is, to enjoy life and appreciate every each and one of the blessings we receive from it.Having experienced that, I'm sure that there's nothing more for us to ask but just live it to the fullest..

since I do have the internet I am usually on iut but wgen I did not have one I spent my days watching T.V. or moving furnitture or babysitting

So why don't you just do it? I lived most of my life without this and so it is not hard for me to imagine other things to do. I do go for walks and I read a lot and I write and sew and spend time with my kids and friends. I never watched much tv at all and so developed many things that I like to do. I do, however, see how this can be addicting. I limit myself to certain times that I will be on here. Sometimes I do get carried away and have to literally force myself to get up and do other stuff.

Well, I'm pretty much a nature lover. I usually spend my free time in the beach or if not in some parks. If I have a long vacation then I would spend it to my favorite hang out in the mountains. Its my favorite place even when I was young. It a 100 kilometer ride from my place and there's a waterfall there that the water is very cool. There are also cottages there for rent. Now that I am married already, me and my family go there once in a while to enjoy nature and refresh our mind and body from the ever busy city life.

no internet = consoles xD

There are so much things to do except Internet.For example,reading books,walking,playing basketball and so on. I think i am not the slave of internet.I have many other hobbies and likings.