[boz]

Since the conception of the World Wide Web back in the late 1980s the internet has become part of our lives whether we like it or not. Over the years the internet has really taken off bringing visual, audio or text communication to the masses across the continents in an instant. It seems nowadays businesses big or small have to be a part of this revolution to survive and sell their products, and we as consumers gladly part with a monthly fee to our service provider to be part of this revolution, be it by your home PC or via a data plan with a phone company.

I didn’t realise quite how much I did rely upon the internet until I recently had the misfortune of losing my home PC’s internet connection for three days over a weekend due to a problem with my service provider. Now a few years ago I could have lived with this, and would not have been unduly worried about it, but to be honest I found it a huge struggle and didn’t realise how much my internet connection to the outside world had become an integral part of my life.

As soon as I realised I wasn’t going to get connected again anytime soon I relied heavily on a Windows Mobile powered device to keep in touch as best as I could, not by Wi-Fi of course but via a data connection as I am lucky enough to have an unlimited data plan, and it was quite successful to a point. I couldn’t function at full capacity as I would liked to have done due to the constraints of the Windows Mobile platform and Opera browser, but it got me out of a hole until I regained my internet connection.

So my question is could you or have you, managed to survive without the internet as a home or business user for any period of time, and not had withdrawal symptoms as I did, like a thirty a day cigarette smoker that has just quit?!