Stop using the internet

[Anonymous No.12872539]

>I have one of those nine-pound Dell laptops you can get for $389 because nobody ended up buying that model, for obvious reasons. I took the wireless card out immediately, and I plugged up the Ethernet hole with superglue. I did work on a DOS machine until about five years ago. It ran WordPerfect 5.0, which is still the best software ever written for a writer, I think.

>It’s doubtful that anyone with an Internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

[Anonymous No.12872542]

>Q: WE HEAR YOU’RE NOT THAT KEEN ON TECHNOLOGY...
>A: I don’t have an internet connection, or a mobile phone, or a TV signal. I can play [digital] music on the television, or on the computer I suppose, but I don’t. I am pretty much cut off from the 21st century. It’s like culturally I’m trying to establish a kind of sensory deprivation tank for myself, whereby I am receiving no modern signals whatsoever, because I’ve heard that after a while in a sensory deprivation tank you start to hallucinate and have all sorts of strange experiences, so I’m waiting for that to happen.

>Q: HOW DO YOU MANAGE WITHOUT THE INTERNET?
>A: It seems to work. I am pretty much cut off from the majority of the 21st century, but not much escapes me. You hear about everything, because you’re talking to people, you’re absorbing a lot of this information as if by osmosis, just through the pores of your skin. I have said that by embracing the internet in the way that it has done, which was kind of inevitable, society has embarked on a massive experiment without having any idea of the various ways in which those technologies will impact upon us socially, politically and psychologically. So I so think if there’s this huge experiment going on, it’s best that I remain outside the petri dish, as a kind of control, so that we’ll be able to see how badly the rest of you have mutated, by comparing you with me as a kind of baseline.
>>>interview with Alan Moore

[Anonymous No.12872747]

>>12872539
Seems like a lot of fuss when he could just write longhand

[Anonymous No.12872766]

https://www.ft.com/content/6a563a5a-6cde-11e5-8171-ba1968cf791a

[Anonymous No.12872777]

>he doesn't use a typewriter
Also why wouldn't you just not connect to the internet instead of the gluing the hole

[Anonymous No.12872791]

I agree desu.

[Anonymous No.12872810]

>took the wireless card out immediately, and I plugged up the Ethernet hole with superglue
boomer detected

[Anonymous No.12872819]

>>12872810
>the point
>your head
Aeroplane mode is just just a switch that can be turned on or off. He wanted to make it so that it was impossible to connect.

[Anonymous No.12872822]

internet is a time sucking black hole.
You think you have little time in your day to do shit. Stay 5 days without internet and you won't know what to do with all the time.

[Anonymous No.12872835]

>>12872542
well if alan moore is the baseline for what humanity would be like w/o internet then thank god for AT&T

[Anonymous No.12872849]

>>12872822
This
I tried doing an internet “detox” the other week. It made me realize how shockingly long a 12 hour day actually is, and I was able to think a lot more clearly. I’d highly recommend it, but if you use the internet as much as I did, you will need to have some alternative activities in mind or you will fall back into the cycle

[Anonymous No.12873365]

>>12872849
every now and then I do what I call a dopamine detox for a couple days. No music, no internet, no movies, no nothing except gym and books, usually nonfiction. It is great and helps organizing time and helps with procrastination

[Anonymous No.12873514]

>>12872539
What word processor is he even using there?

[Anonymous No.12873580]

reminder that neuromancer was written on a typewriter

[Anonymous No.12873666]

>>12873580
That William Gibson uses a typewriter and Alan Moore uses a computer puts my entire world in to question.

[Anonymous No.12874880]

>>12872539
>not using focuswriter

So boomer

[Anonymous No.12874896]

>write anything not about himself and his own life that might need a modicum of research
*shrug* but if all you want to write is literally a diary go for it

[Anonymous No.12874902]

>>12874880
>alt-tab

>>12874896
It's a good thing we have the internet. No one ever did research before the internet.

[Anonymous No.12874917]

>>12874880
I don't get the people who use this crippled "minimal" software. Use vim/emacs in a terminal window for the same look, but with actually powerful capabilities for handling text.

Look in to Vim's text objects.

[Anonymous No.12875088]

>>12874917
>being a nerd
how's your sci-fi novella coming along?

[Anonymous No.12875094]

>>12872539

[Anonymous No.12875108]

>>12874917
All that stuff is adistraction from writing

[Anonymous No.12875123]

>>12875088
I just prefer using powerful tools to do things rather than shite.

>>12875108
What? Visually it would be almost exactly the same as software like FocusWriter, but with far more capable editing capabilities.

[Anonymous No.12875127]

>>12872539
Hack
>>12872542
Fraud

I'll continue using the internet, thank you.

[Anonymous No.12875169]

>>12874902
spend 5 hours driving to every library in the state looking for what I need
vs
spend 5 minutes looking it up online
IDK WHICH I SHOULD GO WITH. haaaaard choice. I'd also like to see your library that has google earth and streetview, fagwad.

[Anonymous No.12875185]

>>12875169
Ever heard of a globe, retard?

[Anonymous No.12875241]

>>12875185
a globe will totally show me the layout of an individual valley in a small mountain range in a small country on the other side of the world
take your fucking typewriter and go sit in the park you poseur little pseud.

[Anonymous No.12875247]

>not using vim and git

[Anonymous No.12875271]

>>12875169
>I'd also like to see your library that has google earth and streetview
Libraries have computers and internet access.

[Anonymous No.12875276]

>>12875241
>show me the layout of an individual valley in a small mountain range in a small country on the other side of the world
In what way does the accurate description of a minor landmark is Kazakhstan improve your writing?

[Anonymous No.12875278]

>>12875241
Knowing the geography of that valley isn't gonna make you a good writer no matter how hard you suck Steinbeck's shriveled old dick

[Anonymous No.12875286]

just have some self control fucking christ

[Anonymous No.12875305]

The thought of having internet is terrifying to me. I would truly then be absolutely, utterly alone.

[Anonymous No.12875306]

I'm essentially a zoomer (21 years old) and I literally don't know what life is like without the internet. I remember when the internet wasn't as pervasive as it is right now, but it was still there. I wonder how I would fill my life in without it? If I was alive in the 80's would I lounge around watching MTV all day, or would I be forced to actually do something productive.
Can any oldfags cue me in on how it was like?

[Anonymous No.12875329]

>>12875306
Television was far less invasive because it was fixed to massive and heavy boxes rather than tiny pieces of plastic the size of a matchbox.

[Anonymous No.12875389]

>>12875329
With television you were also given a fairly limited choice of programs in comparison to the internet. Often there was simply nothing interesting on, you had no other option than to do something else.

[Anonymous No.12875711]

Who writing on napkins masterrace?

[Anonymous No.12875778]

>>12875306
Internet was a lot more fun before everyone had it placed in their pockets.
Smartphones and social media did more visible damage. The iphone came out right as I graduated highschool, but it took a couple years for people to make the switch.
Kids still had internet at home, and texted all the time with each other, but it wasn't some totally pervasive thing like it is now. I can't imagine what its like going to highschool where people use laptops in class