I got myself ADSL back in 2002, since that day I haven’t been without The Net at home more than a few hours during power outages or minor problem with the ISP. Me and my fiance have been building a house for just about a year now and are soon to move in to the new house.
30.4 2008 my old ISP cut my 2M/2M SHDSL line to our apartment and we still live in it. 2 may the new ISP connected the 24/1 ADSL line to our new house.
I brought all the servers to the house first of may and the apartment is really quiet now. We are both used to watch TV series and listen to music located at one of the file servers. So how does it feel? I must say it’s weird. Being at home and not being able to look something up whenever you want. Read email, read the news… I could go on forever. I’m really surprised to see how "hooked" on the Internet I am. A lot of my daily activities are on the Internet, and suddenly the activities are cut of. Well almost at least, as I said I can still surf at the building site but then I loose precious time. *cough cough* like writing this blog post. Well I did it while taking a coffee break.
This makes me wonder are the modern people really this dependent on the Internet? And if we are, is it a good or a bad thing? How did we manage before the Internet, mobile phones, mp3 players? Sometimes I think back to the times when you could go out to the summerhouse and no one could get a hold of you. We had no phones there and for a week or two, sometimes for a longer time the only thing that you’d think about was fishing, catching some sun, swimming and other normal summer activities. No work related calls, no interruptions in the vacation.
Are people more stressed due to this? I’d say they are, you can’t get any real peace anymore. The companies and colleagues assume they can get a hold on you anytime. Setting auto replies to email might cut some of but some still don’t get the hint.
Comment and tell me about your experiences in this.
I need to get back to building my house so I can move in sometime soon and get my Internet back.
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