September 11th I
lost my landline and internet connection until September 16th.
I was really
thankful I have numerous offline hobbies - doing physical jigsaw puzzles,
reading physical books, baking from recipes on actual recipe cards, crochet and
rug hooking, gardening, visiting in person, etc, so I wasn’t lost for something
to do while I was disconnected.
But it also showed
how much of our lives are online now. I couldn’t even look up the Telus phone
number or submit an outage report to Telus because I had no internet access.
There was a
As our world
becomes more online, we need to keep as much as we can offline so we can still
function in a power or internet outage.
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