The Internet
Interstellar Planets
29-12-2007, 06:11
This might seem like a daft question, seeing as I've used the Internet in one form or another since the mid-late nineties, but... what the heck do you people do on here, exactly?
What I mean is, the Internet is hailed as this revolutionary new way of wasting time, with people sinking hours of every day into it. I know one person who has specifically set up Linux on his PC so that he can use it while he browses the web. An entire operating system just for browsing the web!!! But other than posting in the occasional roleplay on NS, and posting random comments in one other forum which I infrequently visit... I can't actually find anything interesting to do here. When there's nothing going on here on NS, I just switch off and leave. Where the heck do you guys spend all your time while you're online? Other than here, I mean? Is there some kind of amazing portal that I don't know about?
Fassitude
29-12-2007, 06:18
Read the paper, some blogs I follow, spend time in a community I shall not mention by name, chat with people through instant messaging, talk to people on Skype, thieve music and films, look for recipes, idly read random wikipedia entries, fix spelling errors that bug me in these entries, send some e-mail, pay bills, buy stuff off on-line stores and auction sites...
Oh, and consume pornography, of course.
Intangelon
29-12-2007, 06:22
Read the paper, some blogs I follow, spend time in a community I shall not mention by name, chat with people through instant messaging, talk to people on Skype, thieve music and films, look for recipes, idly read random wikipedia entries, fix spelling errors that bug me in these entries, send some e-mail, pay bills, buy stuff off on-line stores and auction sites...
Oh, and consume pornography, of course.
*nods*
Dryks Legacy
29-12-2007, 07:00
I post on about six different boards, I instant message people, I read news. Oh and then there's this (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArchiveBinge) or this (http://www.xkcd.com/214/).
Virtually everything I learn outside of my classes I learn online; I read almost no physical books anymore, using ebooks for everything except those I can't find in an online version. I also shop, play games research, keep up to date on current events, submit resumes, talk with friends, watch videos...
...and of course, post on NS.
Eureka Australis
29-12-2007, 07:59
1. Trolling NSG
2. Porn
3. WoW
4. Porn
5. Cybernations
6. ???
7. Profit
Porn. Lots of porn. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo)
More seriously though, I use it mostly for research, whether it be for painting my Warmachine collection, a class, II, or boredom. After that, mostly writing on II and a few other sites, a few forums, keeping in touch with local gamers and events, WoW (trying to cut down on that), and talking to friends over IM.
Oh, and porn.
Well, I suppose mine is the same as those above.
1. Read various news sites, be that CNN, Wired or Pink Tentacle.
2. Read blogs occasionally.
3. Porn.
4. Various games, mostly political simulators.
5. Chat via MSN & AIM.
6. Porn.
7. Read wikipedia.
8. Stare at the Neopets website wondering how long until they get sued out of existance.
9. Porn/Cyber.
10. Read stuff on various SciFi sites, from en universe encyclopedias to short stories.
Naturality
29-12-2007, 08:18
Can be social or anti-social. Can be positivity, negativity or just plain apathy.
I'm actually surprised that we've been allowed this open internet for as long as we have. And then .. I wonder if the reason we've been enjoying this freedom is because of their ignorance of how yet to control it.
But .. (from a controlling gov aspect) would you rather folks gather on the internet and bitch about shit, or gather together in real life? Maybe the internet is just another form .. a more interactive form of TV for the masses.
I'm a paranoid mofo =)
Wilgrove
29-12-2007, 09:28
Porn
NSG
Email
MxO (Matrix Online)
Various forums
IMs
Porn (again)
Wikipedia
Facebook
Cannot think of a name
29-12-2007, 10:17
The internet was wasted on me until I added StumbleUpon to Firefox. Now...well, it's still wasted on me but I have more things to look at.
Longhaul
29-12-2007, 12:20
I learn stuff. There are resources available that you can use to expand your knowledge about pretty much any field of human knowledge that you can think of. The Internet is, to borrow a phrase from a kids' TV show that my nephew watches, "The Great Big Book of Everything". I've been entranced by that idea since I started all this nonsense many, many years ago although I referred to it as "The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" at the time, for want of a better descriptor. I'm an information junkie... I live to learn, as it were. One of my few regrets in life is that the Internet did not exist in any accessible way when I was at school, but I'm making up for it now that it is.
I communicate over it, access my entertainment through it and learn from it.
The internet was wasted on me until I added StumbleUpon to Firefox
Gah, StumbleUpon! The cause of many a random evening of discovery.
...idly read random wikipedia entries, fix spelling errors that bug me in these entries...
Oh, and I do this too. At least it's something that I can do and then reflect upon as being a constructive use of my time.
news, blogs, searching information, forums, porn, communication with friends and others and work for school.
The internet is most of my brain. I feel odd if I can't look things up on Wikipedia, Google Earth and the like. I like having access to vast amounts of data on any subject that catches my interest.
Similization
29-12-2007, 14:01
Work.
Education.
Socializing.
News.
Copyright infringement (includes porn).
Shopping.
Gaming.
Forum Trolling.
Ohshucksiforgotourname
30-12-2007, 05:34
1. Trolling NSG
Ah-HAH! So you admit it! All righty then, off to Moderation with you!
(*drags you by your ear to Moderation*)
LOL j/k :p
Ohshucksiforgotourname
30-12-2007, 05:38
The internet is most of my brain. I feel odd if I can't look things up on Wikipedia, Google Earth and the like. I like having access to vast amounts of data on any subject that catches my interest.
Yeah, it was by looking at it on Google Earth that I discovered that England was a province of, and not an alternate name for, the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Dryks Legacy
30-12-2007, 05:43
The internet is most of my brain. I feel odd if I can't look things up on Wikipedia, Google Earth and the like. I like having access to vast amounts of data on any subject that catches my interest.
I get that feeling too, it's really annoying not being able to fact-check or research something on-the-fly.
I'm fairly certain I've beaten the internet, several times. Sorry guys, nsg is NOT the end boss.
I'm fairly certain I've beaten the internet, several times. Sorry guys, nsg is NOT the end boss.
No, UNITIHU, you are the end boss.
No, UNITIHU, you are the end boss.
It seems so obvious now...
Ackmanistan
30-12-2007, 08:56
Playing online roleplaying games (usually via the Wizards boards and Mythweavers).
Webcomics.
Occasionally check my mountainous email inbox and trawl out the good stuff from the spam.
Wasting time.
Insta-checking facts and references (I once read in a somewhat-left-of-reality website that if you drew a line between the Great Pyramid and Bethlehem, you would intersect the spot where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. Google Earth says that line doesn't even cross the Red Sea. :D)