Where would we be without it?

not posting this post anyway

Q: Where would we be without the internet?

A: Oh great, now we have to consider one of those dystopian nightmares where the Nazis won the war or Fidel Castro was the starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers or Thunder was Summer Glau.  In this episode: a world without internet.

I think, without internet, that ham radio would become the prevalent nerd medium, at least for me.  I actually had a Tech Plus ham radio license and could do Morse code at like 30 WPM right about the time I discovered the internet.  Once I realized that I could type three times as fast as I could tap, AND the internet would reward me with porn for it, ham radio just stopped being cool.

So I imagine Cirus would have a station set up, only he wouldn't be Cirus, he'd be "KB4 BRO" or whatever the AARL saw fit to issue him, and he'd host a nightly discussion about how awesome CB radios are and how we should worship big rigs drivers for using such superior radio technology.  Folks like EJ and Skrag would be ricocheting AM transmissions across the pond during that magic hour when the atmosphere was just right.  Dissident would have a radio that runs on nuclear power, the better to carry it with him cross-country.  AHB would invent new Morse code letters when he got bored with the lesser life forms.  Ducis would have his ham radio mounted to his metal detector, the better to go beach-combing!  My radio would be built from parts I dug out of the Radio Shack dumpster - without the internet there would be no Best Buy dumpsters for me to dig through.  Thunder would invent a signal jammer, y'know, to make friends.  ZIGS would continue to masturbate to Lite-Brite, except this time he'll just have to own up and admit he got the idea himself - he won't have the internet to blame.  I don't know what Ballinator would do, but we'd all care what it was about 100 times more than we'd care how YWOC, WOTR and crashedhelicopter got their radios.

Great answer