You can easily store all of Hacker News locally, at our computer, so why do you come here? For news, obviously. You can't have news pre-saved at your computer by definition, and you simply won't accept (nobody does) the few-hours ping time of the sneakernet.
By the way, carrying media around was always faster and cheaper than delivering the data through the Internet. The trend we are getting is exactly the opposite of what you described; more people are choosing the net option, because although it gets relatively more expensive all the time, in absolute terms it's getting good enough.
You can easily store all of Hacker News locally, at our computer, so why do you come here? For news, obviously. You can't have news pre-saved at your computer by definition, and you simply won't accept (nobody does) the few-hours ping time of the sneakernet.
By the way, carrying media around was always faster and cheaper than delivering the data through the Internet. The trend we are getting is exactly the opposite of what you described; more people are choosing the net option, because although it gets relatively more expensive all the time, in absolute terms it's getting good enough.