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The internet
OP - September 26, 2010, 08:16 AM

How has it changed your life?

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Re: The internet
Reply #1 - September 26, 2010, 09:20 AM

3 ways i think:

1. E-books. Easy way to circumvent censorship in the Middle East
2. Turned me into an atheist. No other time in history have we had such easy access to material critical of religion.
3. Porn. No more buying overpriced Playboy magazines from vendors disguised as fruitsellers in some colourful Saudi neighborhoods. And don't need to worry about disposing them.

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Re: The internet
Reply #2 - September 26, 2010, 09:28 AM

Its weird. I literally can't imagine life without the internet (and without my mobile phone)

Yet just over a decade ago, none of this really had any presence in my life.

I mean, what the fuck?

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

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Re: The internet
Reply #3 - September 26, 2010, 04:41 PM

availability of information. anyone remeber trips to bookstores and libraries??

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Re: The internet
Reply #4 - September 26, 2010, 04:45 PM

Quote from: Faiz on September 26, 2010, 09:20 AM
3 ways i think:

1. E-books. Easy way to circumvent censorship in the Middle East
2. Turned me into an atheist. No other time in history have we had such easy access to material critical of religion.
3. Porn. No more buying overpriced Playboy magazines from vendors disguised as fruitsellers in some colourful Saudi neighborhoods. And don't need to worry about disposing them.

+

4. Listen to all sorts of music that I ordinarily wouldn't have access to.
5. Online gaming is pretty cool.

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Re: The internet
Reply #5 - September 26, 2010, 04:47 PM

Quote from: Mutha Kuffar on September 26, 2010, 04:41 PM
availability of information. anyone remeber trips to bookstores and libraries??

This

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Re: The internet
Reply #6 - September 26, 2010, 04:53 PM

I looooooove the internet.

Benefits for me have been:

- Availability of information from various sources
- Speed of communication (for personal as well as business matters)
- A new dimension in social interaction. (Although, perhaps at the expense of real world interaction, to an extent.)
- Expressing one's ideas/views/concerns freely via forums, YouTube, facebook, comments on blogs etc. Gone are the days when newspapers and the media giants had a monopoly over the expression of ideas.

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Re: The internet
Reply #7 - September 26, 2010, 04:55 PM

Quote from: Faiz on September 26, 2010, 09:20 AM
Porn.
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Re: The internet
Reply #8 - September 26, 2010, 05:01 PM

Thanks to the internet, I now have friends.
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Re: The internet
Reply #9 - September 26, 2010, 05:12 PM

lol

So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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Re: The internet
Reply #10 - September 26, 2010, 05:32 PM

My Book
My Blog
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Re: The internet
Reply #11 - September 27, 2010, 12:40 AM

1. Access of information
2.More choices of entertainment
3.I've made more friends.
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Re: The internet
Reply #12 - September 27, 2010, 01:06 AM

Quote from: z10 on September 26, 2010, 08:16 AM
How has it changed your life?

Changed? It has been part of my life from my early teen years. I have grown up with such technology, so used to information and the connection with people around the world

Can't imagine life without it

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Re: The internet
Reply #13 - September 27, 2010, 06:35 AM

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Re: The internet
Reply #14 - September 27, 2010, 07:51 AM

porn
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Re: The internet
Reply #15 - September 27, 2010, 09:49 AM

Quote from: billy on September 26, 2010, 09:28 AM
Its weird. I literally can't imagine life without the internet (and without my mobile phone)

Yet just over a decade ago, none of this really had any presence in my life.

I mean, what the fuck?

Yup. I mean I was an adult before the net was even invented. Nobody even had a PC when I left school. PC's hadn't been invented then. Even universities only had one or two computers, and they were horrible bloody great things you had to make cardboard punch cards for. No GUI at all. If you didn't know a programming language you were plum out of luck.

Anyway, IMO the benefits are as already mentioned (although I'm not much of a pr0n fan myself). I think the availability of information for everyone is great. I also think it helps break down barriers between people who would never normally meet IRL. Gives a real global village feel to things.

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Re: The internet
Reply #16 - September 27, 2010, 10:37 AM

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Re: The internet
Reply #17 - September 27, 2010, 11:03 AM

can't imagine being without it for good. It's just a resource im very used to from an early age. But, for example, i had no internet for the majority of 2009 and part of 2010, like completely. I just got used to not using it. So its possible, but not desired

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Re: The internet
Reply #18 - September 27, 2010, 05:45 PM

Quote from: Boo on September 27, 2010, 07:51 AM
porn

i miss u the most boo

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Re: The internet
Reply #19 - September 27, 2010, 06:53 PM

Good ways:

- All courses are online so dont have to go to class
- Solutions to every day problems can be found instantly.
- A great increase in IQ
- FREE music, FREE movies, FREE e-books (The God Delusion )
- Made me an ATHEIST. (Thanks to hitchens and dawkins)
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Bad:

- Time wasting by being distracted.
- Made me more introverted

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Re: The internet
Reply #20 - September 27, 2010, 07:07 PM

The GPS took away all the fun of keeping maps of multiple cities, states/provinces all the time in the car (and getting lost in some random town, knocking on people's door to provide directions to the highway)..

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Re: The internet
Reply #21 - September 27, 2010, 07:16 PM

I look at kids today and realise they would be real fish out the sea without internet amd mobile phones.

Yet we managed well before them.

But there are so many benefits. It could be, one day looked back on as the start of the end of religion.

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Re: The internet
Reply #22 - September 27, 2010, 09:56 PM

"It could be, one day looked back on as the start of the end of religion."

couldn't agree more. i think everyone on this forum can to some extent credit the internet for their apostasy.

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Re: The internet
Reply #23 - September 27, 2010, 10:05 PM

Quote from: a.ghazali on September 27, 2010, 07:16 PM
It could be, one day looked back on as the start of the end of religion.

Or the start of a new religion

"we can smell traitors and country haters"

Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
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Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.
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Re: The internet
Reply #24 - September 27, 2010, 10:37 PM

Quote from: canex on September 27, 2010, 06:53 PM
Good ways:

- All courses are online so dont have to go to class
- Solutions to every day problems can be found instantly.
- A great increase in IQ
- FREE music, FREE movies, FREE e-books (The God Delusion )
- Made me an ATHEIST. (Thanks to hitchens and dawkins)
- CEMB

Bad:

- Time wasting by being distracted.
- Made me more introverted

all this ^^

(except for the not attending class bit.)

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Re: The internet
Reply #25 - September 27, 2010, 10:52 PM

internets:
1) chatting with foreigners and learning their cultures
2) original language shows (thanks to piracy, YARRR)
3) MMORPGs
4) quick information lookups, software updates
5) being able to work from anywhere
6) pics of hawt chicks
7) BDSM erotic stories

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Re: The internet
Reply #26 - September 27, 2010, 10:57 PM

7 Ways The Internet Is Ruining Your Life

Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
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Re: The internet
Reply #27 - September 27, 2010, 11:22 PM

The internet is for porn! The internet is for porn! Grab you dick and double click, for porn, porn, porn!

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Re: The internet
Reply #28 - September 27, 2010, 11:25 PM

Shush, laggy pants.

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Re: The internet
Reply #29 - September 28, 2010, 10:50 AM

It made me question Islam (ebooks, free-thinking websites like CEMB) and eventually leave Islam. Wikipedia is also pretty much an addiction for me. Every time I hear a new phrase or idea I am on Wikipedia geeking out.

And yeah, porn.
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