Since you used the internet, what was the longest time you went without it?

In other words; what was the longest time you didn't use the internet since you use the internet?

In another language; sinds je internet gebruikt, was is de langste tijd dat je zonder internet hebt doorgebracht?

 

I first started using the internet in about 2001.Then shortly afterward there was a period of about 4 years where I didn't have it.I didn't really need it.I have never really understood the internet and found it intimidating,and in a sense really rather a negative,dead space with which to share one's life.Increasingly though I am becoming dependent on it,and finally starting to learn how to use it properly,especially for downloading software for my creative projects which I am just getting into now I have this super duper new iMac machine.

 

A couple of months at most. The internet and I are attached at the hip.

 

There was also a period between 2008 and 2011 when I wasn't online.I kind of see it as a necessary evil,which is co-equivalent to this increasingly fractured and isolated existence we lead.It will be useful for ordering food from the supermarket when I get old though,and stuff like that.Having the option of being a total recluse does hold some satisfaction,even as I try to counter it by engaging actively with the real world at present.

 

I'm really not sure. We got it in 1999 the day before I started 7th grade. I know we definitely didn't have internet when we went on vacation the following summer, but we were only gone for about a week. There were a few trips I took between then and last year that had me out of town and away from the computer for anywhere from a couple of days to a week. And then a year ago I got my smartphone and I haven't really been without internet for very long at all, whether I'm home or not now.

 

One month when I was in the process of moving. It was a long month.

 

I’ve had internet access continuously since 1993 :2thumbsup:

With several one or two day gaps when I switched services from people PC, to AOL, to Verizon DSL, etc…..


Hotwater

 

6 months without internet at Job Corps, a few months without internet when I enlisted in the Army, and a few months without internet during a couple of stints of homelessness.

 

I have no idea. Probably not longer than a week. Yeah, I can really remember my Internet activity in - for e.g - 2004.

 

Since tablets.came in, or it was actually usuable on a phone, the last couple years, wouldnt be surprised if i havent gone a day without checking something.

 

Maybe a month-
I dont have a iPhone, Tablet,laptop or any other device--- I just use this Dell desktop, :computer: on a table in the corner of the living room. So for the younger folk I might be behind in the tech world, but its fast and Im connected- so its all good

 

Have always been able to access it in some form since 2001. Maybe when I was living in China and the internet used to be cut off sporadically for days at a time?

 

i can quit anytime i want, no really i can.

my best guess is there was a time between 1 week and 2 weeks that i didnt have it since i first logged on in 2001. i really could do without it, i have books i been meaning to read and games i been meaning to play, but since im paying for it every day i might as well use it everyday.

 

hey jack, unless you have dial up, the worst connection available to you is better than the best connection i can get. one of the things i miss about jersey.

 

Ah dial up, 3 kb/s, those were the days

 

My family got AOL in 1996 and a few months later our modem got struck by lightening through the phone line(haha, oh the early days of the net) and we didn't get it fixed for like 4 months. Then a few years ago I moved and we didn't have the internet for a month or so, then later my laptop broke and I didn't get it fixed for like a month but I still checked my email and did basic things at work.

I take a family vacation every summer and used to make a point not to use the internet during that time but smart phones make the internet a hard thing to avoid.

 

2 Days In 7 Years Whilst The Puuuter Was In The

Repair Shop Getting Upgraded...



Cheers Glen.

 

^ that! :iagree:

I got connected to the internet via the land/home line in 2006 or 2007. There have been times the computer has misbehaved, a new one was built, or power was out - as in the lines being damaged - for maybe 2 weeks. I used to go maybe 2 weeks without going online...not anymore.

 

Probably about 6 months or so

 

I first started using the Internet around 1995.
I lived in a house with no Internet connection for 2 years or so, from 2009. I'd go to Internet cafes if needed to do something important, but that was fairly rare, a couple of times in a month at the most. Even though I had been pretty hooked previously, I was completely fine with not having an Internet connection