>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.
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>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
Seems like a lot of fuss when he could just write longhand
>he doesn't use a typewriter
Also why wouldn't you just not connect to the internet instead of the gluing the hole
I agree desu.
>took the wireless card out immediately, and I plugged up the Ethernet hole with superglue
boomer detected
>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.
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.
well if alan moore is the baseline for what humanity would be like w/o internet then thank god for AT&T
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
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
What word processor is he even using there?
reminder that neuromancer was written on a typewriter
That William Gibson uses a typewriter and Alan Moore uses a computer puts my entire world in to question.
>not using focuswriter
So boomer
>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
>alt-tab
It's a good thing we have the internet. No one ever did research before the internet.
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.
>being a nerd
how's your sci-fi novella coming along?
All that stuff is adistraction from writing
I just prefer using powerful tools to do things rather than shite.
What? Visually it would be almost exactly the same as software like FocusWriter, but with far more capable editing capabilities.
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I'll continue using the internet, thank you.
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.
Ever heard of a globe, retard?
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.
>not using vim and git
>I'd also like to see your library that has google earth and streetview
Libraries have computers and internet access.
>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?
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
just have some self control fucking christ
The thought of having internet is terrifying to me. I would truly then be absolutely, utterly alone.
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?
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.
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.
Who writing on napkins masterrace?
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