Well let's see did with out most my life hmmm who cares Cell same. Now if your talking TV or Tat another subject. next

I voted 1 hour but in reality, 10 minutes would probably have me pulling out what's left of my hair.

Sailing across the Pacific I put up with no internet for weeks at a time. But if it is/was available in a marina or island somewhere

about 12 hours so it depends. In Thailand if it is out at the condo I simply take my laptop to wherever it is available. If it is a

service provider I am rattling the chains in 24 hours.

Depends on where I am. At home in the morning, which is when I spend most time on the internet, an hour or so would have me starting to think about calling 3bb. In the evening, it's less likely that I would notice that it was off.

If I'm away from home, I could survive a few days without needing to access the internet. The last time I was in Edinburgh (3 days), I only used the internet on the final day to print my boarding passes at a friend's house (also had to install the printer for him as he doesn't have a clue about computers).

Alan

I use the internet for keeping in touch with relatives and friends and internet banking.

There's also TV and films I like to stream or download from time to time.

Must admit it's frustrating when the power goes off when I'm in the middle of a conversation on Skype (one of the joys of living out in the sticks in Thailand).

Just been without internet for 24 hours but I'm glad to say it hasn't phased me.

I have stacks of books and games to read and to play.

Must be getting old now as I remember the times when I used to listen to "Children's Hour" on the radio, go out and play on the streets with my mates or read a book if I wanted to be quiet.

Our first TV was a 9 inch screen PYE with a massive cabinet and there was just the one BBC channel before ITV came along.

It was always breaking down so the TV repair man was almost a permanent feature in our house.

One good thing was my mother used to keep the biscuit barrel topped up.

As regards a telephone my father wouldn't have one in the house saying it only brought bad news.

In a way I could understand this as when he lost friends and relatives the news came usually via someone's telephone.

So we used to use next door's phone or the phone box down the road.

Any other guys on Thai Visa remember those halcyon days?

Childrens Hour on the Light Programme with "Uncl Mac", McDonald Hobley.

We never had a TV at home though I remember going down to the garage at the bottom of the road to swap the accumulators for the radio. One of the great days when I was a kid was the first time I was allowed to do that job on my own. We used to go up to the "common" 1/2 mile away to play at weekends and holidays with our mates or round to the next road which was a dead end panhandle road where we could play cricket and football fairly safely and there was always somebodys Mum or Dad keeping a watchful eye out.

If you wanted the toilet or a drink of water you just used to knock on somebodys door and ask.

I don't remember anybody who had a phone but the telephone box was only about 1/2 mile down to the "main" road and round the corner.

I miss those days though I am still in loose contact with a coupe of kids I went to school with back in the mid fifties.

I don't

Gee.... back when I was a lad, we didn't have internet & I lived quite happily for years.

As with most things, if you don't have it you will find other things to do.

Gee.... back when I was a lad, we didn't have internet & I lived quite happily for years.

As with most things, if you don't have it you will find other things to do.

That is the reason the world's birth rate has declined signifigently since those days of large back seats in cars.