Imagine if this lock down happened without the internet.

Imagine if this type of lock down happened 30 years ago without the internet. Suicide rates would be skyrocketing.

What would you be doing right now if you didn't have the internet?

 

Well we wouldn't know any better, so we would be fine.

One of my best memories is a power cut that lasted all night, laying in bed reading a book (Let the right one in) by candle light.
Saying that if it lasted longer than a day then it would likely not be a happy memory lol.

I still have a large collection of books, even if i haven't finished one since 2013 but i'm sure i would dive back into them and them ask myself why i waited until a pandemic to start reading again.

If the internet went now though, people would be roaming the streets like zombies.

 

Reading books for sure and listening to records.

 

I would cut my grass for the first time in twenty years,nah who am i kidding f the grass.

 

Kids could go outside and play.

 

Can't do that during a lock down.

 

Would run out of books and booze.

 

Yep, I was out earlier for a walk and I saw three kids leaving a shop.
All three under 10 and you try not to judge but when young adults can't do this distancing properly what parent let's small children out right now.

FYI, I'm pretty much a helicopter parent so I would be annoyed at this at the best of times, but surely I can't be alone in thinking that is crazy?

 

If this continue we might choke the internet bandwidth and isp have to reduce the speeds.

 

Meat is a bit on the expensive side but I've been experimenting with chocolate instead ha ha.



...Pornhubs year in review for 2020 will be some interesting figures. I have the strangest random thoughts at times.

Spoiler

EDIT: Suddenly paper being the hot commodity in shops no longer seems like such a mystery.
(Well not really, situation is a bit different but snowstorm a few years back people indoors and nothing to do. Baby boom 9 months later.)

EDIT: Situation in Sweden is so far pretty mild though from what I've been reading about it at least, been a few statements like not hoarding and panic buying stuff and what not so unsurprisingly the opposite happened and people stay indoors more than before.

EDIT: Getting a confirmed case here might change things but nothing to do but see how the situation progresses over these next couple of months.


EDIT: That image is way too big.

 

Read a book of course. Watch TV since that's still on.

OP's question's funny, since people who lived and were at a reasonable age before the internet do still remember it, you know?

 

I could partially answer.
Born and raised in Communist era in Eastern Romania, we had many softcore lockdowns.
As in pair days one could buy gas and go out and do their errands and on impar days one stayed at home.
And weren't allowed to go to church or cinemas sometimes and in the years just before '89 situation was much more difficult.
They imposed more restrictions and lockdowns - making a queue from 4 am to buy milk or bread - they were rationalized.
So during staying at home , all books were devoured, all magazines or colour book also.
Radio was the only thing that emitted at any hour because TV was from 7:AM to 10:30 PM and all of it was political propaganda and the movies were edited and cut.
So everyone had to rely on imagination and do whatever to past time more easier, pleasantly.

 

How many of them lived under a complete global lock down?

 

Check two posts above your's, for example. Comes as close as it got. Also, when I was a kid and Tschernobyl exploded, it was advised to not go outside as well...

 

@fantaskarsef
I completely forgot about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
I lived near the border with Ukraine, so we're told to take iodine pills and stay the frack home.
I was in the first grade and teaches said that children who will get out and play after school or not behave will get a beating.
This were the times, where education and parenting were in bed together and getting a educational beating was as common as Facebook posts nowadays.

 

21st Century problem,right?
But without Electricity what you do with internet?without supplies what you do?without water what you do?without fresh air what you do?
Long story short: ze Interniet(Niko Bellic Gta4 accent) is not everything.

Show us the big picture view,the whole frame of plate,snalla du.

 

Seriously...in 1990, people had TV, stacks of VHS tapes, CD's, LP's, musical instruments, all kinds of hobby building/needle crap, paint, DREMELS, comic books, regular books, stacks of newspapers, magazines with actual substance in them, puzzle books, PHONES stuck to a wall socket, etc to spend time indoors...it's not as if the internet fills a gap that needed filling. Hell, even America's Funniest Home Videos existed in 1990 for all the animal video lovers, so anticipating watching that would make life under lockdown more easy. Most of what the internet does next to be a gathering place of (often poorly degraded versions of) all of the above, is put you in the frontline of receiving poor quality information from strangers, due to mass media being completely blurred on it. Less confusion back in the day as the media could actually set the tone.

Oh right...RADIO!

 

Playing ...

Commander Keen
Doom
Duke Nukem
Helloween Harry
Bio Menace
Monster Bash
Larry
Lemmings
Wing Commander
X Wing
Space Quest
Police Quest
Ethernam
Tanks
Pacman
Lemmings
Incredible Machine
Lost Vikings
Syndicate
Command and Conquer
Dune
Willy Beamish
SimAnt
Arachnophobia
SimCopter
SimCity
Theme Hospital
Theme Park
...
...
...

I could go on and on and on and still would have left out a lot of games worth mentioning.
But you get the picture ...

Btw.: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

I would write a lot more.