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

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  • 07-03-2015 11:00pm
    #1
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭


    Grammar police suicide up by 250%

    Serious answers also welcome :)


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    fred funk }{
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    It would be absolutely


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    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    ...the streets and boreens would be full of yabbering idiots...


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    pablo128
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    I might get a bit of work done on my cars if it happened. Or even give them a wash and hoover.


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    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    All joking aside...where I work would more or less shut down....

    they rely heavily on the Internet there


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    hairyslug
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I would feel slightly sorry for any students doing projects


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    WellThen?
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭WellThen?


    Probably catch up on my reading, and my cooking skills.

    Might kill myself too.


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    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    There would be an invasion of Spooky Ghosts ;)


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    crockholm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Cats would be doing their usual feline frolicks,just no one there to see it. A sad and sobering thought.


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    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Kitten adoption would go down by 6,000,000 %.

    People only get them to share photos and videos on Facebook and you tube.


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    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Depends. How loud would this screeching be?


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    shedweller
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    The porn industry would fold overnight. Or not


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    bop1977
    Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bop1977


    It would be worse than the time somebody typed Google into Google.


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    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    hairyslug wrote: »
    I would feel slightly sorry for any students doing projects

    "You'll have to use a book...like this" *Lecturer pulls out ancient dusty rectangle.

    Student: "What.... is it? seems like a.... 2 tonne medievil weapon that I clatter over my classmates head when they do nothing?"


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    Tearin It Up
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    WellThen? wrote: »
    Probably catch up on my reading, and my cooking skills.

    Might kill myself too.

    Me, I wouldn't get any cooking done cause I google things like how to cook a chicken properly, proper gas mark and the likes.

    Life would end. Imagine no YouTube which is a massive help. How would I fix my computer without YouTube ?


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    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭cml387


    Instead of facebook, people would have to back to scribbling on lavatory walls.


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    spud82
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭spud82


    I'd have to wait weeks to watch US shows on TV


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    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    People would have to talk to each other face to face. Instagram folks would cry themselves into an early grave. How else would people know what they had for lunch or how they did at the gym.


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    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    Depends. How loud would this screeching be?

    About three-fiddy decibels.

    Or this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0


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    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Is Aertel still available in your dooms day scenario?


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    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    No biggie regarding the internet vanishing, I'd miss it, but there's always radio :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg3hjSNblA


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    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    Is Aertel still available in your dooms day scenario?

    Yes there will always be room in our brave new world
    for Aertel.

    After all, How else will graphic designers find nay,... fufill their creative potential drawing crude brightly coloured lego men?


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    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Could you not just Google to find out why the internet isn't working.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #24
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,422 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Eh no boards, Devastation like 😂


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    #25
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    People would start paying for porn again.

    I'd stop subscribing to online games.

    Keyboard warriors would need counselling as would those who comment on thejournal.ie

    DVD and CD sales would increase again.


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    #26
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    increased cases of sunburn as people actually went outside for the first time in years


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    #27
    goz83
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭goz83


    I would have a new paper weight, once called iPad.


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    #28
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Doctors surgeries would be quiet as no one could panic after googling their ailments. There'd be people getting lost because no one can read a paper map anymore.


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    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    Maybe it would be more detrimental if our electrical power-system went down from a sun flare, no electricity, no internet, no lighting, no mobile-phone communication, no tv (great). Back out into the garden with the gas cooker cooking roasting or toasting bread at the fire-place. Just like camping all over again.


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Pornositis epidemic.


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    SMJSF
    Registered Users Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    I'd actually lose contact with people since phone numbers don't really exist for me thanks to Facebook and email.
    the only number I have for a close person to me is my mother (she can't figure out technology- not even her microwave or tv!).
    I'd crack!
    I also use the internet for a lot- how to cook something, how to get somewhere by Google maps and bus apps, reviews/tutorials, news, college help, etc.


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