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What areas of human life have not been
Posted by Mr Fade on 30 January 2010 - 8:12pm.
influenced/taken over by the internet? It's exactly ten years since I first got an email address. To quote the great man, 'Things Have Changed'. What hasn't? The only things I can think of are playing football (well, sport in general) and farming. There must be more...?
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Going to the toilet
It's life's 2nd greatest leveller (after death) and impossible to do in a cool and interesting way. Very little, if anything, has been added to the procedure since the birth of the internet.
Yes.
But I bet some people still twitter away there...
Taking the piss
and talking crap?
Just wait till Chuck Berry
figures out how to use his new webcam.
Ahem
Possibly too much information here but sometimes when nature calls I read the Word Blog on my phone!
Record shops
Maybe an unexpected answer, given the reduced number of them thanks to said interweb. But there's simply no substitute for browsing in a shop and selecting a few albums (possibly on the basis of shop assistant advice).
If I'd to pick another at random, then I'd say airport check-in. It doesn't matter how much information you've given on-line when you ordered your ticket, the check-in desk still needs to type in the equivalent of a small novel for every passeneger who (shock horror) wants to check in luggage. And don't get me started on airport security ...
I remember being in Hyderabad airport
with a guy who had an eticket, which he had lost so he showed the security police a copy of the PDF on his netbook. They wouldn't let him in until he found a place to print out a paper copy...
No you're right
The Interweb has massively reduced the number of record shops, and reduced the number of people who go into the ones that are left but the experience of going to one still exists, and hasn't particularly changed. If anything it has gone in reverse and certainly if you step inside a good independent record shop you'll be confronted with as much Vinyl as CD and there are even some little labels like tapeworm who are trying to revive the cassette tape. Hurrah!
Libraries too...
Cant, beat a quiet afternoon spent drifting between Genres and Authors, with no preconceived idea of what you,re looking for.
Er have to disagree as
round our way libraries are not just no longer quiet, but often full of kids playing computer games online.
Apart from the fact..
...that in my local library there's around 20 PCs with people tapping away at the all day. Most seem to be using Facebook or YouTube. Try going in after 4pm when the schools empty - it's too noisy to be able to do anything.
Magazines. Yes, really.
For all the talk of the internet bringing about the slow death of the printed word, there's just nothing like a magazine.
I think my relationship with magazines is much the same as it was ten years ago. I use the internet for skimming things, getting information quickly, looking up music, things like that. But a magazine is something different. I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted here, but it's something to do with the feel of the paper, the look of the printed word, the sense that you don't know what you're going to get when you turn the next page. The internet still has nothing like it.
And you can't read the internet in the bath.
Not even when
some bright spark makes a waterproof cover for the iPad?
:-)
Clothes and Shoes
You can look at tiny pictures of them on the web but you can't try on a pair of Shoes or a pair of new jeans on the internet. I loathe buying clothes and shoes and love buying records so this isn't good at all.
And the Barbers
No change noted at the barbers. Still a pile of mags on the coffee table. Some top shelf replaced with Nutz or the like but it's hard to spot the difference between them anyway. No internet as yet.
Email
It's a bit harder for me to because I got my first email address way back in 1994 (thank you Compuserve). And, for me, one of the things that hasn't changed is sending email! I still have my email client set to send "proper" emails in plain text without an html file attached.
CD's are the same as they were. Anything printed (books, magazines, newspapers) doesn't seem to have changed much. The only other thing I can think of at the moment is breakfast! Like a lot of people I have the same thing for breakfast every day and I think I'm on my current arrangement for a good 25 years.
Today
the following can't be helped by the wibbly wobbly way:
Bacon sarnies for brekkie
Family walk (in the snow today)
The Veg Patch
Wood chopping for the stove
The Sunday Roast (duck today, thanks for asking)
The biography of Thomas Paine I'm reading
Veg patch and chopping wood for the stove.
Sounds very nice Ah Bisto. I'm on the second floor in London and I'd love to be able to spend some time on the veg patch. As it happens went out a litle while ago to go to collect my daughter and grandchildren and the batteries flat and the car wont start! Still beefs on the go with bread & butter pudding for dessert since you asked.......
Onanism
I'm absolutely staggered that nobody has thought of a way to put pornagraphic images online to assist a man in his solo pursuits.
One of the funniest moments
in Knocked Up is when Seth Rogen and his friends discover that their sure-fire hit website - in which they tell punters the exact time in films in which celebrities are naked, having rumpy-pumpy etc. - has already been successfully implemented by others.
And then, if only there were a way to find them...
Some form of 'search engine' perhaps?
*Gets on phone to Bill Gates*
work
it's still a drag
Food
Toyed with obtaining groceries through't interweb and gave it up.
Haven't seen or used an online meal delivery service (round our way at least).
And recipes - I think I've used a grand total of 2 off web sites, the rest come from a (growing) collection of cook books.