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

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  • #52
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Arielle Breezy Grin wrote: »
    Boards would stop and Gordon DAV and tom Dunne would be out of a job.

    Think those lads bar David have separate jobs.


  • #53
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Into The Blue wrote: »
    Think those lads bar David have separate jobs.

    That's not the point :):):)


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The business & financial world would collapse in total chaos if the internet failed and trading stopped, no online banking/shopping and the like.
    on the other hand, we wouldn't get any more support calls from"microsoft"


  • #55
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Think I'd finally do something productive.


  • #56
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    New mothers would be seen wandering the streets with pictures of their newborns asking people:

    "DO YOU LIKE THIS! TICK THIS BOX IF YOU LIKE THIS PICTURE. YOU CAN WRITE SOMETHING UNDERNEATH TOO!"

    Teenage girls will do the same with pictures of themselves.


  • #57
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    It's those poor Nigerian princes and bank managers who will have no way of contacting me to transfer all those funds to my accounts that I think will suffer the most!!

    It will also be a return to that staple of every teenage guys room prior to the millennium......sticky pages!!!


  • #58
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


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

    Might kill myself too.

    Is your cooking that bad?


  • #59
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    I wouldn't know what people had for dinner every day and my soul would therefore be crushed!


  • #60
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    I'd hit the books but would somehow manage to F5 the page.


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  • #61
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


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


    So would I ... after I'd had a good laugh.


  • #62
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,564 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    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. :p

    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.


  • #63
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,009 ✭✭✭conorhal


    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.


  • #64
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    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?


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