What would you be doing if there was no internet?

The other day I was looking for a place to stash a Christmas present, and I came across a stack of hand-written journals from pre-computer days. At the time, I was also reading one of Dean Koontz’s books from the 1980s, and I’d been thinking what a different story it might’ve been had things like cell phones and e-mail been available.

Before I had a computer, I had an electric typewriter, and before that a manual. Sometime around 1980 I decided that writing was something I really wanted to do, and that I had something to say; maybe a little different point of view of things that other people wouldn’t necessarily have.

So even if personal computers, and hence, the internet, had never come about, I’d probably be writing in some form, anyway. Probably a cooking column in some obscure little magazine, and/or churning out genre fiction for the amazing royalty of 7.5¢ a copy ;>)

But all the time, I encounter people who’d never have been writing anything if it wasn’t for the need to do so in order to communicate online.

What about you?