05-02-2004, 04:35 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 366
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Amount of personal Internet usage
I realized over the past few days that my "on line" hours have been steadily increasing as I find more and more interesting sites, get more e-mails and listen to streaming internet radio. It got me thinking about what I'm NOT doing with that time, but that's another issue :wink:
As broadband continues to gain a foothold and wireless technology rates also rising, I'd be curious how many hours per week you estimate as "on-line time". Let's keep it to non-work because you might be researching something for a work project, which I wouldn't count. My personal estimate:
Weekdays
2-3 hours per day for surfing & e-mail
3 hours per week IM'ing on my PPC
Weekends
4-5 hours every Sunday for NASCAR TrackPass
2 hours on Sunday for streaming NewAge music while reading the paper
1 hour per day for e-mail
3 hours per day for general surfing (most of it here!)
Total Estimate: 30 Hours per week 8O
What's really interesting to me is that 5 scant years ago, I probably spent 10 hours per week on-line via dial up (anyone remember AOL 2.0???) to get the same amount of content I can get in less than an hour on DSL......now at 30 hours of broadband per week, how much content am I saturating my brain with??? :robot:
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05-02-2004, 04:42 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 830
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now that im on disability, im online 42 hours or more per week on wireless 802.11g connected to 3mbps cable internet.
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05-02-2004, 11:22 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 217
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I calculated 5.5 hours during weekdays and 8 hours on the weekends, and this equals 43.5 hours per week. Wow - I never knew how much time I spent online until I tallied it up just now. 8O
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Originally Posted by Kevin C. Tofel
anyone remember AOL 2.0???
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I started out on AOL 3.0... they offered a whopping 15 hours free! :lol:
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05-02-2004, 11:23 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 241
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... sigh... its bad, in the too much sorta way :P
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05-03-2004, 04:20 AM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Anyone remember CompuServe 2.0??? We really need a "How long have you been on the net" quiz of some sort. Questions like "Do you remember a time before pop-up ads?" "Do you know why Netscape accused Microsoft of Anti-Trust" "Do you even know who Netscape was?", etc...
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05-03-2004, 05:29 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,133
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A lot of my work involves using the internet.
I'm "on" all day at work, and a good part of the rest of my waking hours at home (broadband). I'm not always actively using it, though.
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05-03-2004, 05:38 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Originally Posted by dadarkmcse
Anyone remember CompuServe 2.0???
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CompuServe 2.0??? How about pre-CompuServe 2.0? Back in the Commodore 64 days?  I've been online for a long time, although it used to be a huge rip-off back when: $12.50/hr for 1200bps communication over phone lines.
Now I'm probably online about 12-15 hours a day, every day. Like Kati, I use the Internet extremely heavily for work, and as such I really can't distinguish one from the other.
--janak
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05-04-2004, 01:51 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,097
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These poll questions cover all the bases my only complaint is 0 hours can be intrepreted as everthing under 1hr or a literal 0.00 hours. I never thought about how much time I spend online before.
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05-04-2004, 02:15 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 65
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Scary but I think I fit into the 30-40 hours bracket. I spend about 2 hours in total online during the work day for research, uploading sites etc. and about 2-3 hours online at home every day.
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05-05-2004, 02:27 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,208
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not more than 2 hours a day. i got other things to do
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