...if you wake up tomorrow morning and for whatever reason the world wide web ceased to exist completely, what would you do?

I'd be mad because I would know how I did in fantasy sports the night before.

I would be very busy !

Die..:lol:

Well since my school's library burned down i'd probably fail classes because I'd have no research tool. And besides that, a lot of the way our world works is based on the www so I think a lot of things would fall apart.......

anyways that will never happen.

how do you know?

anyways that will never happen.

 

it happened in asia :uhoh:

how do you know?

 

 

 

I just know yeah

it happened in asia :uhoh:

 

 

 

 

:stunned:

I just know yeah

ok.. :dozey:

Thank god...:dozey:!!

I mean, life goes on regardless.. :dozey: Sure, life would be duller, and I would miss all of you here!:cry: But there's always a backup - phone cables, satellites, ships, radio transmissions - communications would fall back on the next network capable of handling the traffic, albeit much slower..:) (someone had started sending TV pictures on HAM radio back in the olden days.. very, very slowly, but it worked!)

What else? Well, I might get some things fixed around here that have "gone to the dogs" for lack of attention, that's for sure!:P And actually spend more time reading books and magazines!!

Yes, it did happen in Asia - I recall a special on the internet, and what happens when things go wrong - earthquakes sever cables, animals (sharks) cut into them, etc... So, trading on the markets ground to a crawl! (Rerouting through Europe was too much traffic for the lines to bear..). But it did get fixed pretty fast, as a lot of money was riding on it, that I do recall. Basically, anything can happen, but when some technology becomes so important, there's usually a wake-up call, and then a more robust system is installed, extra cables laid, etc..

Once, not too long ago, a squirrel decided to climb onto some switchgear at a substation on the Eastern half of North America, and the power outage that resulted knocked out about half of the US and parts of Eastern Canada.. So, that's what can happen when investment is too heavily put into the big payoff (ie ENRON-esque thinking), and not enough into robust infrastructure.. It takes time to restart the massive infrastructure as well - hydroelectric stations have to power up the other fossil fuel stations just so they can start turbines again, and get it all going.. So, I hope we learned from our mistakes! (but one wonders..:thinking:)

Why did you propose this in the first place, David??:rolleyes:

:)

Well since my school's library burned down i'd probably fail classes because I'd have no research tool. And besides that, a lot of the way our world works is based on the www so I think a lot of things would fall apart.......

:stunned:your school's library burned down!?

I'd be mad 'cos I'd have no way to watch videos of my Eugene, or talk to my pet Briggins. rofl.

i'd go crazy.

 

and i'd hire a detective to find your phone numbers so i could talk to you guyz from time to time :sneaky: :nice:

Yeah..i'd be shocked. But i'd get over it. I'd get over YOU HA!

 

Losers..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nah really, i wouldn't :bigcry:

I mean, life goes on regardless.. :dozey: Sure, life would be duller, and I would miss all of you here!:cry: But there's always a backup - phone cables, satellites, ships, radio transmissions - communications would fall back on the next network capable of handling the traffic, albeit much slower..:) (someone had started sending TV pictures on HAM radio back in the olden days.. very, very slowly, but it worked!)

What else? Well, I might get some things fixed around here that have "gone to the dogs" for lack of attention, that's for sure!:P And actually spend more time reading books and magazines!!

Yes, it did happen in Asia - I recall a special on the internet, and what happens when things go wrong - earthquakes sever cables, animals (sharks) cut into them, etc... So, trading on the markets ground to a crawl! (Rerouting through Europe was too much traffic for the lines to bear..). But it did get fixed pretty fast, as a lot of money was riding on it, that I do recall. Basically, anything can happen, but when some technology becomes so important, there's usually a wake-up call, and then a more robust system is installed, extra cables laid, etc..

Once, not too long ago, a squirrel decided to climb onto some switchgear at a substation on the Eastern half of North America, and the power outage that resulted knocked out about half of the US and parts of Eastern Canada.. So, that's what can happen when investment is too heavily put into the big payoff (ie ENRON-esque thinking), and not enough into robust infrastructure.. It takes time to restart the massive infrastructure as well - hydroelectric stations have to power up the other fossil fuel stations just so they can start turbines again, and get it all going.. So, I hope we learned from our mistakes! (but one wonders..:thinking:)

Why did you propose this in the first place, David??:rolleyes:

:)

 

I stole the general question from another forum

i would walk around feeling totally clueless and disconnected for probably about two weeks. at first i'd probably think it was still up and have to constantly remind myself that it doesn't exist anymore, then i'd start tearing my hair out once i remember that it's dead, and then i'd probably just get used to it. but i'd miss all of you terribly, and i wouldn't be able to get my news or my coldplay info or even talk to my highschool friends in the same way anymore, and that would be crippling. but eventually we'd all get used to it if it never came back. i just don't want to have to, because my computer and the internet are my life.

I'd fail out of college.

As some of you know, I had no computer and no internet for a couple of months, and the withdrawl was bad, but I survived, and would again. I'd miss the people I'd met...but there's the phone and snail mail.

 

I'd pick up my guitar and play.

What do you phone some of the people on here?

I admit that would be difficult not having anyone's last names,lol. But you all know my last name, so you could phone me ifyou wanted to.

 

EDIT: And actually I know a few last name from Facebook, so I could, but so far I haven't.

We could make a documentary about finding all of the people we lost contact with.

 

That would be funny.

 

"Uh...he had a username on this Coldplay website..."

"Fuck off. I'm from Atease."

Lmao...a squirrel.

id eventually deal with it. i would miss this place, and finding out coldplay stuff. but, life does go on.