Summer, spent 12 days camping in an empty Greek island. I had to climb to the top of the hill just to get phone signal so even though I could theoretically go online, chilling became a priority.
Ask HN: When was the last time you lived 24 hours without the Internet?
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#32The men of our family try to get to Montana every year for elk season.
Remote, cold, feet hurt, sore, and no Internet access for 24-48 hour stretches (sometimes longer). But the pack weighs on me more than the disconnection, even after over 20 years of daily access.
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#33This is timely. I am planning to spend the next few nights free of my laptop. I usually browse the web and plan massive things in my head, but I haven't written a line of code in my spare time in a week or so. I think I am burned out and could use the break, even if it's just for a few hours.
The last time I went without internet connectivity was 3 years ago, celebrating my two year wedding anniversary with my wife in Dominican Republic. The hotel has wifi in the lobby area, but I learned from a previous trip that it was an exercise in frustration trying to get anything other than pure text.
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#34The last time? This past weekend.
Before that? Every other weekend or so. I don't own a smartphone, and I make a point of staying offline most weekends unless I have a major email backlog to deal with, or something specific to look up.
Even when working on personal coding projects I prefer to stay offline during weekends whenever possible. Very, very useful strategy for maintaining sanity generally, I find, and for making time available for more useful + deserving sources of interaction and stimulation -- like books, music, movies, paintings, architecture, natural scenery, animals, and people.
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#35About 6 months ago, on my way to Turkey.
It was a pain. I got less writing done than I'd hoped, partly because I couldn't look things up. I enjoyed holidays more when I had a working Kindle Keyboard and could get internet anywhere. Next time I'm taking a laptop; there's too much value out there to be a luddite about it.
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#3612 Hours of Sebring 2013 - four days off. The coverage in the area was better last year, but before that it was almost non-existent. Unless, of course, you pay the ridiculous fee for spotty track wi-fi that barely worked even when you were connected.
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#37Last week I actually went almost two whole days without internet access. It wasn't intentional (I forgot my iPhone at home when I left for two days), and where I went there was no computer or other internet accessible devices. I survived fine, but yeah.. a certain degree of separation angst.
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#38A year ago, when there was power cut and phones are out of charge/conserving battery.
We were playing board games, under candle light and family was bonding like never before.
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#39Couple days ago. During the summer, it's usually every weekend I stay at the dropzone without any laptops and I don't carry my phone around. I'm also outside for the whole weekend and I empty all my pockets to jump. There's planes to jump out of, people to talk, things to do, a breath of fresh air!
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#40Last week from Tuesday to Saturday.