Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It?

Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It? 340

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:11PM from the for-porn-and-video-games-of-course dept.

ReLik writes "BBC News is reporting on a survey carried out on the statistics of internet users in the UK, 'While the battle for digital access is being won, we now face a struggle to convince everyone the net is worth using' said Professor Richard Rose, of the Oxford Internet Institute. It begs the question why goverments around the world are encouraging everyone to use the internet, but is there really enough of a reason for everybody to need to? Is the internet suitable for everybody? Will it ever be?"

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Simple (Score:5, Funny)

by Tyrdium ( 670229 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:12PM (#7018306) Homepage

It's an endless supply of pr0n!

The Internet (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:13PM (#7018310)

The Internet is a medium, being neither rare nor well done.

Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:13PM (#7018313)

Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It?
Somebody post some hot naked chicks to remind this guy why we need it.

Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)

by Neophytus ( 642863 ) * writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:14PM (#7018323)

Until mummy and daddy catch you.

Good question (Score:5, Funny)

by black mariah ( 654971 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:14PM (#7018327)

So what DOES the internet have to offer me? It doesn't cook me dinner, take out the trash, or even clean up its room. Screw this, I'm going outside.

$$ in my pocket (Score:2, Funny)

by spooje ( 582773 ) writes: <{spooje} {at} {hotmail.com}> on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:15PM (#7018336) Homepage

Simply put, to give me a job! How could I make money doing web design if there were no web?!

Re:Simple (Score:0, Funny)

by penis fish ( 671987 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:23PM (#7018415) Homepage Journal

at is y it is /. looooooooooool

ok ceruzly u wan sex or do u wan 2 haev make lolz wif u

ok bye newb

More +1, Insightful than +1, Funny (Score:5, Funny)

by s20451 ( 410424 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:25PM (#7018431) Journal

Several years ago, demand for broadband was basically driven by demand for pornography -- just like the demand for early VCRs.

Pornography is like the space program, we love to have it, it's hard to justify, and sometimes there are spinoff benefits for everyone not involved in it.

Re:porn joke omg lmfao shut the fuck up (Score:2, Funny)

by Doomrat ( 615771 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:27PM (#7018448) Homepage

I dropped it on my foot.

Of COURSE we need it! (Score:4, Funny)

by phillymjs ( 234426 ) writes: <slashdot@stanTWAINgo.org minus author> on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:34PM (#7018508) Homepage Journal

The internet has provided a crucial service-- it has prevented many a "Kirk vs. Picard" debate from coming to blows, merely by ensuring the participants are separated from each other. And if the internet didn't exist, what would we do with all those Pentiums that help to speed it up?

Finally, if we didn't have it, I'd have to go outside once in a while. And interact with real people! And someone could mug me, take my wallet, and use the information in there to impersonate me and open up credit accounts in my name. When I'm sitting at home on the internet, those kinds of things can't happen. I-- oops, hold on. It seems AOL has lost my account and credit card information, AGAIN! I'll finish this post in a sec, as soon as I fill out the form on the webpage they directed me to.

BRB...

~Philly

Re:Simple (Score:2, Funny)

by Moofie ( 22272 ) writes: <lee AT ringofsaturn DOT com> on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:35PM (#7018513) Homepage

Do you need a hug?

Do we need a reliable global comms infrastructure? (Score:4, Funny)

by n1ywb ( 555767 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:52PM (#7018624) Homepage Journal

What kind of a dumb question is this? Maybe I should RTFA but the premise boggles my mind. Maybe I'm jaded because I spend so much time in front of a computer with a full time internet connection, but FWIW the Internet is MY FRIEND! I need to look something up, GOOGLE! I need to buy something, FROOGLE/PRICEWATCH/ETC! I need to talk to people EMAIL/IM/IRC/ECHOLINK! I mean, WTF? If it wasn't for greedy nearsighted corporations and governments we could already have broadband in everybodies home and not have to fuck around with archaic technology like telephones and fax machines and phone books and magazines and newspapers. Or music CDs and DVDs. All that shit could be consolidated into one resource conserving blinky blinky brain box and a phat internet connection. But NOOOOOO we've got to lobby congress to BAN FILE SHARING AND WEB SITE COPYING! AND GOD FORBID YOU SHOULD MAKE A PHONE CALL WITHOUT PAYING THE PHONE COMPANY SOMETHING FOR IT!!!! HURRRR INTERNET BAD!! NAPSTER BAD!!!! DURRRR!!!!

Re:Simple (Score:2, Funny)

by Binary Gibbon ( 413182 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @01:59PM (#7018682)

Just means he's been stupider, for longer.

--From the guy with a lower UID himself

Why we need the internet? (Score:5, Funny)

by baywulf ( 214371 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @02:45PM (#7018971)

We need the internet so we can discuss about whether we really need the internet.

Re:Simple (Score:0, Funny)

by Daniel ( 1678 ) writes: <dburrows@[ ]ian.org ['deb' in gap]> on Sunday September 21, 2003 @03:17PM (#7019171)

Sometimes I wonder why people describe Slashdot as the most intelligent community on the 'net.

Who does a silly thing like that?

Daniel

Mighty Simple! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @03:27PM (#7019252)

So everybody could read silly articles on crazy websites!

One Word: (Score:2, Funny)

by ecantona ( 322912 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @04:24PM (#7019536) Journal

Slashdot!

Re:Good uses I've found (Score:3, Funny)

by Tokerat ( 150341 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @05:32PM (#7019884) Journal

I can certainly imagine life without the net (and it's nice to try it sometimes)... but for computer use, I definitelly feel naked without it.

That's funny, I usually watch people get naked on the Internet...

.why (Score:2, Funny)

by golrien ( 528571 ) writes: on Sunday September 21, 2003 @07:32PM (#7020538) Homepage

Because I can't get laid and I need something to do with my evenings.

Re:Simple (Score:2, Funny)

by mniskin ( 239166 ) writes: <<moc.oohay> <ta> <niksinm>> on Sunday September 21, 2003 @10:28PM (#7021535)

I got a girlfriend to get better at the internet but all get is lots of sex. Oh, well.

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Re:Simple (Score:4, Funny)

Good question (Score:5, Funny)

$$ in my pocket (Score:2, Funny)

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More +1, Insightful than +1, Funny (Score:5, Funny)

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Of COURSE we need it! (Score:4, Funny)

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Do we need a reliable global comms infrastructure? (Score:4, Funny)

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Why we need the internet? (Score:5, Funny)

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Mighty Simple! (Score:1, Funny)

One Word: (Score:2, Funny)

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