What If The Internet Breaks?

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What if the Internet breaks? What the hell kinda question is that? Why would someone even say that out loud? It’s like asking when the world is going to end. Jeez. There are just some question you don’t ask.

When your Internet service goes down, it's at best an inconvenience. If you rely on it for business, it can quickly cost you money. So imagine: What happens if the Internet breaks? Picture people wandering the streets lost without GPS or maps on their iPhones, unable to pay for food or other goods with a simple swipe of a card.
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1. most healthcare companies, citrix dependant companies and hospitals etc would be screwed that have remote hosting

thats my major concern since thats me! lol

2. please god if the internet breaks... break the fing phone lines so we dont get 5000 calls
 
It's called bgp routing, the internet will never break, what a dumbass.

Well.. unless a sun burst kills all the power! lmao
 
jroe52 said:
1. most healthcare companies, citrix dependant companies and hospitals etc would be screwed that have remote hosting

thats my major concern since thats me! lol

2. please god if the internet breaks... break the fing phone lines so we dont get 5000 calls
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If you use VOIP, you should be set lol
 
That's like saying "What if every vehicle in the world simultaneously broke down?"

Stupid question:eek:
 
If it breaks, then Super Al Gore (the Internet's creator) will blame it on Man-Bear-Pig and just invent a newer, better, faster, greener Internet. C'mon guys, it's really no more complicated than this.
 
catsby said:
No free porn = anarchy
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Eventually, people who have amassed significant collections of porn will become what I refer to as The Bastions of Porn. People with little to no porn will come to these Bastions of Porn and use a simplistic method of bartering goods to acquire porn from these members. Eventually, the Bastions of Porn will become the most wealthy and powerful of all people on this planet.

This is why, for the past six years or so, I've been amassing a large library of porn for when Doomsday comes and the internet breaks. Thus, it's not obsessive, weird or pathetic: it's just a good investment.
 
We were just talking about this at work the other day, saying how awesome it would be for the internet to die for a month or two. Snap people back to reality a little. It was part of a discussion about how kids today and even adults have extreme ADD. When you have only a few things to focus on you train yourself to do that. With our information overload you have millions of things to focus on and your brain trains to give only a little attention at a time before you move on to the next thing. Plus you think that you can always come back to whatever you were doing (which of course you never do). At least thats the theory we came up with. Maybe I'm just old but I would actually like it if the internet went down for awhile. It would be nice if cell phones could as well.
 
Azhar said:
well it's still a form of data service from satellites.
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Not internet or anything remotely close to it. You get much more 'data' from TV satellites.

phide said:
Eventually, people who have amassed significant collections of porn will become what I refer to as The Bastions of Porn. People with little to no porn will come to these Bastions of Porn and use a simplistic method of bartering goods to acquire porn from these members. Eventually, the Bastions of Porn will become the most wealthy and powerful of all people on this planet.

This is why, for the past six years or so, I've been amassing a large library of porn for when Doomsday comes and the internet breaks. Thus, it's not obsessive, weird or pathetic: it's just a good investment.
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The economics of porn.. but it probably wouldn't work that way. Since it'd be immensely difficult to transfer it from one computer to another relatively to doing it now with internet, and considering the drain on society this waste of time and efforts would cause (not counting "efforts" after obtaining the files), most likely prohibitionists would rise and porn would be outlawed.
 
Oh please, How ever did we survive before 1996.

Yes it's convenient and yes a whole lot of people have put their eggs in the "internet basket"

But ya know what?

If they can't do their jobs without it, they deserve to go under.

It would definitely cause me discomfort and I had that experience a couple of years ago when my ISP took 3 weeks to fix my connection but I just figured out alternatives.

The internet has made a lot of things more convenient but it's also fostered a whole lot of half-baked services that are flaky at best. Still people think it's the second coming because it's on the "Internet"

You wouldn't have as much outsourcing and bad service if it weren't for the Internet. You wouldn't have the level of financial fraud either. Way back when you actually balanced your checkbook without "cloud computing" you could actually call your bank, talk to a real person in the United States and fix the problem instead of waiting for an email for 3 days. Oh, but wait, everybody justs trusts what their bank website tells them, never mind...

Maybe the Internet should "break" once in awhile to remind us all of how to actually get something done by getting off our collective posteriors.

The Internet is just a tool, unfortunately it's society that's becoming A TOOL.

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Erm, counterstrike (not source) broke the internet (or brought it to a crawl) up to beta 7.1 , threee times in total back in the day (nearly 10 years ago). No one seems to recall those episodes.
The web was a tiny place then -decent download speed was 3 k a sec back then
 
just to clarify it was the patch downloads of a few hundred meg by tens of thousands of players (IIRC)that killed it so many times. The infrastructure just wasn't there back then
 
Bring the 'net down for a while, would be funny to see how many people would change thier behaviour.

Would like to see who is addicted to it!
 
If 'The Internet' broke 'The Internet2' would have to grow up really quick...

But seriously, soooo many things would have to go wrong, simultaneously, for it to break and stay broken for any length of time. I've got a better chance of winning the lottery while getting struck by a second bolt of lightning just as I am being trampled by a one eyed pink elephant impersonating Sanatra.
 
Two words: Total Anarchy!

But since the Internet is not a single 'thing' but rather the nexus of multiple connections and data to data points, it is impossible to 'break' the entire internet short of using a global-wide EMP pulse that would knock out all electronics in the world simultaneously.
 
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