What problems would arise if the Internet came to a screeching halt?

Tony EH · 08-03-2015 03:02PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Minor inconvenience for a while, but life would go on. What you young whippersnappers forget is that most remember a world without internet, and we could back to it, and survive quite well, albeit reluctantly.

Different story in fifty or sixty years time, yous would be like the Eloi from The Time Machine.

While this is funny, the serious side is the hit business would take now, never mind in 50 or 60 years time. The vast, vast majority of internet traffic is business related. It counts for the major percentage of everything transferred. Most companies would find it EXTREMELY hard to survive in a world without the web, at least in the short to medium term.

Take Ireland for example, our economy would be dead. It would be an absolute disaster of epic proportions.

conorhal · 08-03-2015 03:08PM

I'm unsure how I'd cope without my daily outrage fix derrived from some clickbait story on boards, I might just have to resort to randomly roaring at people in the street.

The_Valeyard · 08-03-2015 03:22PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Luckily I have stored up 14gb of porn for such circumstances so I should be ok until September.

I trust you have a close friend or family member arranged to wipe your hdd in case of your demise?

What problems would arise if the Internet came to a screeching halt?

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