Valencia Internet depravation fever

No internet all day on Sunday due to the power grid maintenance schedule now all day today due to MASSIVE vegetation clearing in our area.
Does anyone remember what we used to do before internet was invented ?

 

Read a book??

 

Play football(soccer), golf. And much more.

 

Sunday - Delivering papers 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. Went to Church, dad went to pub, mum cooked dinner. After dinner played board games in crap weather or out in street or on bikes good weather.
Monday - Friday. School. After school played in Street or local area with friends and neighbours. Fish n chips for dinner on Fridays
Saturday - A.M. Worked on market stall. P.M. Went to football match

Never short of things to do and never bored. Bring it back!

 

I always Marry a young wife, then and now.

 

Bought stamps
Wrote checks
Wrote letters
Bought newspapers
Visited libraries
Went to Blockbuster
Went to the record store
Kept phone numbers on a piece of paper in my wallet
Found my way using paper maps
Might have bought a Playboy
Thought cats were smart

 

This might be off-topic but don't tell the BOSS!

I often wonder if that could happen - the internet becoming unusable due to massive hacking, denial of service, other issues of which I have no idea! It just seems to me to be a combination of some Black Swan event combined with an over-dependence that will shake the World. I think that in many cases we have put all our eggs in one basket and something is going to break. My greatest concern would be the problem of getting money out of my UK banks (difficult enough now) -assuming they can even match deposits to the 'owners' (in single quotes as we don't actually own our own money!) but that could be just one of many major issues. Some problems could be sorted out short-term by backups IF they work (thinking about electrical-magnetic pulses knocking data out as well).

At least governments will control us less!

 

I know that many members have alternatives for power cuts (including using old car batteries) but we use a low weight 220v 300W portable power station (was Shopee P3598 Oct 2023) with TV, router, laptops all plugged into one extension socket that can be moved from wall socket to Power Station socket in seconds. These are the only things we find essential to keep running but also have JISULiFE fans that last about 24 hours (Shopee P1699 Oct 2023) as well as other little fans with lights. Works well for short power cuts because of how quickly we can put the internet back on. Preferable to pocket wifi (and no promo to buy which often doesn't work anyway - but obviously a bigger item).

 

I have two alternatives for brownouts. my old solar batteries can work for weeks with the WIFI and also a 3.3 KW solar array, 48v lithium power wall 6kwh and 5kw hybrid inverter.