How did people live in the 1980s, without the internet? Where did they go for weather? News? Communication? Oh! You say they used televisions and telephones? Okay, fine. How about before electricity? I recently had cause and plenty of time to ponder these issues, because I went back to school, and the power promptly went out. An ice storm in Muncie brought down trees, and left 80 percent of the town without electricity, including my apartment. No email. No way to check road conditions. No movies. No music. Cell phone batteries dying. Oh, and there wasn't any heat. Did I mention that? It's amazing how taking away two things the internet and electricity can totally bring modern life to a standstill. People lived for centuries without electricity. They lived even longer without the internet. I barely even know what to do to find a phone number without a computer anymore! Anyway, I fled powerless Muncie and I'm writing this from my parent's house in Indianapolis. Barely 12 hours after the power went out, I couldn't take it anymore. How do you think you would do?
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