[reaperducer]

I think your grandfather and I are kindred spirits.

When I retire, I don't plan to ever use a computer again if I don't have to. There's nothing on the internet that can compete with the fulfillment available from my wife, my dog, and my actual real life friends.

[tonyedgecombe]

I'll keep the computer but I'm planning to disconnect from the internet once I retire.

[Bromskloss]

For what tasks do you intend to use the computer?

[reaperducer]

Everything that computers were used for before the internet?

[Bromskloss]

Yeah, what was that, really? Typing QBASIC programs from paper into the computer? Using it as a fancy typewriter? Calculating ballistic trajectories? That's all I can remember.

[reaperducer]

I'd write an enormous list here, but it's probably easier and more educational for you to go to archive.org and look at the software ads in pretty much any issue of Byte magazine before 1990.

[Bromskloss]

We can also ask what we use the computer for now, for which we don't need the Internet.