How has the Internet changed your life? For better and for worse
@eaplmx@twtxt.net That’s a very good question and I cannot answer it in short. That’s something that I could easily spend on hours and days thinking about it. Especially if one wants to look also into the transitive things. But there you go, these are the things that immediately came into my mind:
The internet brought me so much and sometimes too much information and entertainment. It’s a good and a bad thing at the same time. Good in the sense that I can easily learn new stuff or look things up, but also bad in the sense of wasting time that could have been used otherwise with something more important. Like building physical stuff or get some sleep instead of watching videos and listening to audio books. Not having to leave the house to order tools etc. is amazing, especially if you can get the exact stuff you want for a fraction of the cost it would be locally. This of course turns all the transportation into a nightmare on the other hand. Working from home is also a tremendously big bonus, I never want to miss that. Never. The sheer excess in offerings can sometimes be overwhelming and cast a damp on me.
By far the positive stuff outweighs the bad influence for me, do doubt at all. Just imagine how many physical copies of encyclopedias of all kinds I would have in my bookshelves if I couldn’t look up stuff online. My work career would not have turned out anything like that because I might not have persued programming without the ability to access the knowledge in forums. Starting my woodworking hobby is definitely Matthias Wandel’s fault.