what would happen if there were no internet?

I think that the internet is just a help for people and it's not intended to replace whatever kind of communication we had in the past. It just made it faster. I don't think that there will be wild things that will happen when the internet will be gone. The problem is that most people are so attached to the internet that they think they can't live without it. For me, I came here on earth naked, and I will leave this earth without a computer or internet on my head!

man, thats not good! most likely will end up reading and writing all paper works and reading news, books, and paper everyday to find out what will happen in the world.

Not long ago, we were doing everything in the "old way", without a computer, without internet.
To look for information, I had to go to the library - now with a click I have more thn I need.
Banking, I used to go to the bank, stay in line and get things done.
Now, one click, and I pay my bills.
Of course the internet is helping us and makes our lives esaier, but without it, we'll just go ahead with live and adapt.
As we do with everything - adapt to situations.

Internet is very important and therefore, it is not possible to live without it.
Every business corporation needs an intrnet. Therefore, it is not possible for today's modern world to survive without internet.
Business is very important. Without business, life cannot be. And without internet, business cannot be. Therefore without internet, life cannot be.

If this were a possibility (which it probably isn't unless there were some major disaster which affected all parts of the world at once --- maybe a planetary collision for instance --- of course all life on the planet would probably be "switched off" as well).

Anyway --- Imagine what it was like before the internet was around.

People would actually be posting letters through the post.

People would actually receive in the post, paper catalogues to order merchandise from.

People would use the telephone to communicate (not that teenagers don't still do that incessantly anyway).

People would actually sit at the same table to play games together (a good game of Uno is still a lot of fun by the way).

People would be participating in more social activities (ice skating, bowling, swimming, etc etc.)

Governments could still lie to people and get away with it.

There would be more privacy.

People would have to share physical CDs instead of MP3s through a P2P programme.

The entertainment industry would probably be happier because it would be harder for people to access their copyrighted materials for free.

Bill Gates would be some poor dude working at McDonald's.

very simple the communication media might be different and it might have taken longer time and even there might have no communication network also who knows