I have been amazed at the amount of annoying idiots posting question after question saying "Why can't I sign into Yahoo Messenger?" "Why is messenger not working?" "Help I can't retrieve my email !!" It's like caused a worldwide panic. Look it's just not working..... So what would happen if the internet went down for 24 hours. You click on the explorer or firefox and it comes up saying.."sorry the internet is no working today, try again tommorow". What would we all do?
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I work in a library where the public internet system occasionally goes down. The public have taken to reacting with brief panic, followed by sitting on the computer chairs in a depressed state and swivelling around on them for hours, clinging onto the hope that it will start working again. (Yes, seriously!) So I believe a temporary mass depression would occur.
Well I guess I'd have to w*nk off to something else
I would either push to the front of the que to beat the s*1t out of the person responsible, or I would find the nearest window and discover what its like to accelerate towards earth at 9.8m/s.
I think I prefer the former, the latter may mess up my hair
Put simply... the world would literally collapse into anarchy. Look at the amount of people having breakdowns because Messenger isn't working.
I've already prepared a suicide kit. The day the internet stops my life will be over. I don't want to live in a world that has no internet.
i think if the internet went down for a day everyone would be lost and a world wide riot would start..:O jk..when i lost my internet i was lost omg!! haha dang but life goes on lol and i survived another day ....
Well, we obviously see what would happen...There would be a pandemic and pandemonium. We have become creatures of E-Habit...and we have become needful of instant gratification.
This is my first foray into the Q&A section of Yahoo, and I had to write a question to come aboard. So consequently I asked if YM was down in upstate NY where I am located. I was apalled by all the inquiries. We have had some heavy rain here and I wondered if it was a local problem. Well, I found out differently!!
Guess I'll go take a shower and get a drink and RELAX.
Bon soir, sans YM !!!!
resort to cannibalism.
Well we wouldn't be bothered by all those idiot people asking us the same idiot question at least
I would probably be glad in a way. I'm sick of having problems with pop-ups, dodgy web-sites and then having to report it to someone in a call centre who barely speaks English.
I try not to use the Internet as much as some people I know- whats the point in tapping away at a keyboard when you can actually talk to a real person. I would much prefer to listen to my music, read and go cycling than muck about on computers. If people spend all their time on the comp, then it is no wonder our social skills are failing as a society.
I would be talking on the phone the whole day! I need to communicate! But still i would find some other things to do... there are many!
The stock market would take a nosedive before officials called a halt to trading for the day. Corporate system administrators worldwide would go nuts dealing with support issues while assuming that the problem is within their networks (and fielding calls every 5 minutes from the CEO who can't get to his AOL). Internet addicts would just sit in front of the PC hitting the F5 key every 30 seconds.
For most people, though, life would go on.
But that raises the question: how would you go about shutting off the internet? There are the 13 root DNS servers, but they're scattered throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, and most of them are in secured locations. There are the major backbones, bundles of fibre that cross oceans and continents, but traffic would just route around the breaks in the backbones. There are points like MAE-East and MAE-West where backbones and lesser tier routes connect, but again, traffic would route around the damage. You might be able to cut a city off from the net, but I don't think you can cut off the world.
Personally, I wouldn't give a damn!! Life goes on