If there was no internet/mmorpg's what would you be doing instead?

[Maril]

So this is something I occasionally have talked about with others, I find it interesting to hear peoples answers. 

Imagine that there wasn't any internet, or that there were not any mmorpgs, what would you be doing instead? 

 

For me, I'd probably be a book-club person and read way into the night. I do still read, but not nearly as much as I did before we got proper internet at home. That and if the internet was to completely disappear, I'd move in to the nearest library because I wouldn't feel good about not being able to google my random questions.

[Roswyn]

I'd still be a pleb console gamer. :cactuar:

 

I'd be reading a lot too. I used to devour books by the shelf before I discovered the wonders of the interwebs. I usually always have a random tab in my browser containing something like this:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene

 

I'd probably be more outdoorsy too. I used to run around in the woods and go tubing and camping and stuff when I was younger and now I'm like "Ew, a stick. Get it away."

[QueenFrejyalen]

Hmm.. I'd probably be writing and reading, the same as I do now, but in MASS QUANTITIES.

 

And focusing more on my education... >////<;

[Melodia]

Also a console gamer, so I'd be playing games there. I also like reading and am am an avid traveler. So....yeah. I'd be doing those kinds of things. I was never in a book club @_@

[Warren Castille]

Table-top gaming. All of my usual group play online now, so if that never happened... We'd be around a table playing dorky games instead of at desks doing it remotely.

 

LIVIN THE DREAM

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I would actually do my work. But it would be so much more boring.

[FreelanceWizard]

If there were no Internet, I'd be... probably running a BBS, like I did before the Internet was readily available. I'd also spend a lot more time writing...

 

...and I'd probably be out of a job, seeing as most of what I do is based on my knowledge of distributed systems over the Internet. So I guess I'd have a lot of time to write. I'd probably play on consoles more, maybe go back and get my Ph.D., that sort of thing.

[Berrod Armstrong]

Rugby. 

[Nebbs]

Well being around before the Internet.. I'd go back to tabletop.

 

Oh yes and BBS and Compuserve.

[Coatleque]

No internet AND MMO's? I'd be focused on single-player PC games like I was before the new millennium.

 

No computers? That's a different story. I probably would have focused more on my electrical engineering background.

[Raelas]

RPG's, martial arts and Fighting games... just like I was before the internet!

 

I miss the arcades

[Nero]

I'd probably take up religion.

[Aldotsk]

Drawing. Or just taking photos around places.

 

or study.

 

FFXIV is the biggest reason I am not able to do anything

[Verad]

My name would be known and feared as history's greatest monster. I would also play more tabletop games.

[Gaspard]

no matter how much role playing, or internet related stuff in general has given me, I still consider it escapism. So.. Thinking logically about it..

 

if there was no internet and role playing for me, I'd be probably still working in security as I do now, except that I would spend far more nights drunk in pubs and discos living the YOLO dream of partying until I'd have had knocked a girl up and been forced to...settle. Cause family and kids and stuff.

 

Or I'd be in the military ad I've wanted to for a while now. Or possibly studying psychopathy..err, I mean psychology.

 

I don't know, there's too much to consider since I've been using the net and role playing for a decade now

[Val]

I.. read and do a lot of console gaming. And by a lot, I mean "own-all-of-them" a lot. Most of the time when I'm in game I'm also either reading a book, studying for tests/doing homework, or playing a console game on the side. Multitasking!

[Roswyn]

I would spend far more nights drunk in pubs and discos living the YOLO dream of partying until I'd have had knocked a girl up and been forced to...settle.

 

Clearly living the dream right here :3

[Lost River]

Table Top Games (might have still have a job in that!) , console gaming and reading.

[Clover]

I'd draw more often, I guess...

It'd be quite a sad life, if you ask me.

[Faye]

I'd just give more time to the other hobbies I already have--reading, writing, console games, tabletop games, drawing, etc. I guess I'd probably also text a lot more since I couldn't chat with my friends through Skype/Facebook.

[Enteris]

As several have said before me... if it's just internet and MMOs, I'd likely go back to consoles. 

 

However, to say there wasn't any internet would mean I never would have met my wife (or, at least I likely wouldn't have... discussion of fate saved for another day perhaps) and I'd likely still be living in Florida instead of Oklahoma. I would likely be a local law enforcement officer there in FL, instead of a teacher here in OK. 

 

In my free time, I'd likely stick to console and single player PC games. Take those away and I'd likely watch TV in their stead. Take that away as well...? Maybe find a cure for cancer out of sheer boredom? I honestly don't know if you were to take my entertainment technology from me.

 

TL;DR: Internet + MMOs quite literally got me where I am today in life. If those weren't around, I'd likely be half the country (USA) away back on the east coast doing a very different job than I currently do.

[Jancis]

There was a day the past month were the power went out for a day at home and work so I basically had the day off.

 

I ended up cleaning, running five errands, walking, exercising (okay to music on my phone), and crocheting.

 

I think I would probably do volunteer work, draw, be more creative in the kitchen, and crochet. Be a productive person. :blush:

 

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[Kellach Woods]

No internet? I'm out of a job.

 

So, uh, job-searching. I'd probably still play single-player games either on consoles or computers, but I'd probably end up reading and writing a whole lot more.

[C'kayah Polaali]

Same here. No job for me.

 

I might still be a cook, but I'd probably be some sort of non-internet-enabled engineer. Or a motorcycle mechanic. That's always been fun.

[Delilah Scythewood]

I'd be doing a lot more reading and catching up on movies. Growing up with a strictly religious family up until I was seventeen, I missed a lot of pop culture and cinematic legacies like Star Wars, Matrix, Saving Private Ryan, etc. I'd also be working a lot more on my book edit since I've co-authored some work with a friend. Right now it's in the 680 page range due to how it was all copied and pasted from logs from the various places we wrote it on/RPed it out/discussed it/etc. If I actually spent time on it that number would go down A LOT lol.