Comments on: What if the Internet breaks?

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:53:20 +0000

@ diavel – that was one of the best episodes

By: diavel

diavel — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:13:43 +0000

There was a South Park episode about this… It was horrible! :0

By: @mmonyte

@mmonyte — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:12:05 +0000

The Internet was designed to survive a nuclear war, it grew out of – ARPANET – so I think it’s pretty resilient. And if there is a major nuclear war, getting online to view a bit of porn will be the least of our worries!

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:44:38 +0000

When I first asked myself that question I thought “oh dear, what if?” and kind of panicked at the thought of losing contact with so many people, listening to great music, convenient online-shopping etc., etc., etc.

Couldn’t even begin to imagine the chaos it would cause to the industrial world and the domino effect it would create if the internet broke, Iook at the chaos on the roads when we get a heavy snowfall in this country.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:41:48 +0000

This is something I always ask to my customers when we do another project where the internet is the carrier.
Managers look awestruck and wave it away as a seeming impossibility, only when their internet line is down they start to see what I mean

Every “i” company needs a contingency plan when the internet (or part of) is down.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:44:33 +0000

Society would tear itself apart like an angry child with a napkin?

I think the impact would be less than all that. People still write cheques, own maps, use faxes, etc.None of them have actually been rendered obsolete yet. They’re just a secondary method that people could go back to if required.

By: aeron

aeron — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:27:20 +0000

people often talk about the internet breaking, but wouldn’t it be amazing to see how the world could cope without electricity for 7 days? in the link posted above, it mentions that with the break of the internet people would then rely on fax/telephone etc…but the thought of no electricity always fascinates me. i’m unaware of the sound of electricity until the power actually cuts every now and again…

By: helen

helen — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:36:11 +0000

Surely it is taking cheques in a car, not checks?

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:25:02 +0000

I remember what it was like pre-internet and sometimes I was far happier then. I’ve had so many bad experiences on the net what with one thing and another. BUT I’d now be completely lost without internet banking, shopping & Twitter/Facebook (although I don’t use the latter as much due to now being addicted the former!)
It’s become such a part of the world and our lives now, everyone & everything just cannot function without it.

LC x

By: Nopke

Nopke — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:55:07 +0000

Oh, is that so? My …

We def. already realize this when the servers are down at our work … we can’t do a damn thing anymore then. For a short while at times not bad, but not for a too long period during the day … it sucks.

And that’s not even real life outside …

Let’s hope it will be a bit as with domino (as in domino day) …. when it does NOT go so well that is …..

Electricity failure will cause a similar situation ofcourse …