I think I would be a dumb 70 % of my knowledge comes from Internet. Besides, I'm only able to speak english because of the Internet.

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Actually, "the military" of the U.S. is a relatively complex organization, at least in part because the U.S. Congress gives it many mandates that have nothing to do with what a citizen would consider a military mission. One of the things it contains is the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its prececessor was known as ARPA, because the first word, "Defence," was absent from its name -- and mostly absent from its objectives.

A lot of university research was funded by ARPA, including what became the internet. As Wikipedia explains it: The ARPA network began with three different computers which ARPA was funding: one for the SDC Q-32 in Santa Monica, one for Project Genie at the University of California, Berkeley, and one for Multics at MIT. I was at MIT at the time, and I can assure you the Multics guys could not have cared less whether the military was funding it. They were just enjoying playing with the very new (at that time) networking concepts, in an environment that did not include security (secrecy).

The computer and the space program were also initially funded by the U.S. military. The military wanted light-weight electronic circuits for space applications, where weight is the dominant restriction on what could be sent aloft. The microprocessor was a military-funded, industry-built solution to that problem. At the time, the military objective was just to improve spaceborne sensors, but the resulting chips had much broader applications, and gave birth to the computers we now take for granted.

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A question like this is hard to anwser, its like asking what would we be without telivision.
Internet has its ups and downs, its ups mainly are keeping people connected and providing online tutoring or websites like this one. And it also kills social lives for some, also those sites which provide second or alternate lives completely ruin any sensation of normal life for those who get addicted to them.
So where would we be without internet? living in on isolated islands like 2000 years ago, no one knows anything about anyone outside a <100 mile radias, but a person would have stronger relationships with his surrounding.
Bah that sux, long live internet!

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I live without internet would change my life drastically. I don't know how often I wonder something and go straight to my computer to get a answer for that question within seconds. If there was no internet I would have to drive the whole way to the library look through books and still not be guaranteed a answer. I could live without email and IM because I use my cell phone more than the computer for communicating any way. In this case just like many others there is a good side as well. A good thing that would come out of it is that I would have more free time but I would probably just spend that extra time watching tv which really wouldn't be a good thing at all. If the internet was never made I would be fine although the world would be a lot different. If the internet just disappeared over night the entire world would be affected greatly.

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It would be really difficult to live without the Internet. I depended on the Internet to spend my time away when I've got nothing going on, I'll surf the news, youtube some videos, facebook some friend, etc, it'll be strange to live in a world without the Internet.

However, imagine a world without Internet, it could be like, newsagents would have better business due to greater demand for newspapers, mobile phone bills to rocket due to smses and calls in place of internet messaging, television advertising to increase due to lack of Internet advertising, increase in call-centres and increase in call-centre jobs due to the primitive methods of people placing reservations for flights, cars, hotels and anything via phone, the world will not be as smart or advanced as current times due to lack of forums and information sharing. Wow.

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