How different would your life be right now if there had been internet in your highschool?

[MiniMandaRuth]

Like, would you have stayed in touch with more of your friends and things like that?

[graywarrior]

1. I would have been even more in seclusion. I would have LURVED it.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. There was...

And I am glad.

[momophile]

3. research papers would have been different

that's for sure. no damn card catalogues!

[eyesroll]

5. No Readers Guide to Periodical Literature either.

Gah, I thought that thing was ridiculous.

[skygazer]

4. I don't really think it would have been much different

I love the internet but I honestly don't keep in touch with people any better with it than I ever did without it. I tend to email the people who live close enough to hang out with more than I do those who are further away.

When I lived 2 miles away from my best friend, we emailed about 20 times a day, spoke on the phone for hours every morning and night and worked together all day. It was ridiculous - I don't know what the hell we had to talk about.

Now that we're 3000 miles away from each other, we email about once a month. Go figure.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. very different

I would've had a lot more time to do my homework, rather than search the local woods for discarded pornography.