Tought question?<p>Actually, my main interest is to know what you
guys do while not coding or hacking the world.<p>For instance, I'm a volunteer firefighter and enjoy doing any kind of sports.
Write more code, visit more BBSes, garden more.<p>As I get older (late 30s), I'm finding Internet culture more alien and less appealing to my demographic, so I've been spending less and less time on it.<p>Outside of work, I'm looking at about 5 minutes per day, unless I'm online gaming, but then its just to game, not chat with other players. I read a lot of online articles (Wired Danger Room++), I scan through feeds, find an article and Instapaper them for offline reading.<p>I don't feel like I'm really missing anything. Any information important enough will eventually get to me.
Reading, rock climbing, enjoying the outdoors, getting exercise, spending time with my family.<p>If there were no Internet because the Internet didn't exist, the world would be very different and maybe I'd have stuck around school for another degree helping people dream it up. :)<p>If there were no Internet because I were stranded somewhere with no Internet, I'd find a way to get the hell out of there.
Even though if there would have been no internet it won't effect my discipline (electrical engineering) directly, I wouldn't be this smart. I would have been an average kid succumbing to peer pressure and taking up the <i>hottest</i> discipline I can get from my <i><insert standardized test name here></i> score.