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Sick of being online? This guy ditched the internet for year
Just imagine! No more checking email, logging in, authentication codes, memes and seeing photos of your best friend’s meals. You might yearn for some disconnection, but it’s really difficult. Most of everyone’s work is on the computer.
Well, one dude in Canada tried it out. Aron Rosenberg spent a whole year not going online. He taught English and theater at a high school and saw how his students always had a phone glued to their bodies.
He set out to explore what life would be like sans gadgets and Wi-Fi.
How’d it go?
He paid his bills by check and answered texts through SMS on his old-school flip phone. He wrote letters — 250 letters a month.
He did his doctoral research the old-school way by looking through books and printed work. He also had more phone conversations. Sounds relaxing, right?
Since it’s still 2023, he’s back online, but (you guessed it), he wrote a book about it. It’s called “Jacking Out: A Journal of a Year Spent Offline.” I couldn’t find a link to the book. Maybe it’s only available offline?
✅ OK, maybe you can’t pull off a whole year without the internet, but I bet you can stop using your dang phone so much.
Tags: book, books, computer, internet, offline, Wi-Fi
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