What would happen if......

richardhomer

mellowsun said:

It can't really break, it's a bit like asking what would happen if electricity broke !

That would probably be the same - once everyone's battery had died, there would be no internet....

paul_c2

Things which have been invented can't be "uninvented", similarly things which have been discovered can't be forgotten - so electricity is safe. However, they could be abandoned or all the infrastructure/supporting stuff destroyed, I suppose. It would be a number of months before this could be recreated.

Flink_Poyd

paul_c2 said:

Flink_Poyd said:

Id restart my Razzle and Asian babies subscription

Babes, surely???

Definitely, bloody autokurect 

littlegreenman

paul_c2 said:

Things which have been invented can't be "uninvented", similarly things which have been discovered can't be forgotten - so electricity is safe. However, they could be abandoned or all the infrastructure/supporting stuff destroyed, I suppose. It would be a number of months before this could be recreated.

Unless we had another Carrington Event type scenario. That could take significantly longer to refit the infrastructure and be a bit crappy. Exploding substations and the like.

If a massive Solar EMP type event fried "all" currently existing chipsets, we'd have to back several generations or more and start from scratch, albeit with better knowledge but you can't just knock up an i7 in your kitchen! It'd take more than a few months to get back up to speed there. I assume that there are protected areas with back-ups all over the world to prevent that being a real danger though. Bloody well should be!

octatonic

Moss

octatonic said:

Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?

siraxeman

So who's tried a fortnight with no Internet  then? 

Sporky

littlegreenman said:

If a massive Solar EMP type event fried "all" currently existing chipsets, we'd have to back several generations or more and start from scratch

If that happened we'd have bigger problems than the loss of the inferweb (though that'd be serious). Most cars, lorries, planes and ships wouldn't work. We'd have to get the Space Shuttle back into service to transport out-of-season fruit and veg to supermarkets.

siraxeman said:

So who's tried a fortnight with no Internet  then? 

I did 17 years with no inferweb. *shudder*

professorben

Sporky said:

littlegreenman said:

If a massive Solar EMP type event fried "all" currently existing chipsets, we'd have to back several generations or more and start from scratch

If that happened we'd have bigger problems than the loss of the inferweb (though that'd be serious). Most cars, lorries, planes and ships wouldn't work. We'd have to get the Space Shuttle back into service to transport out-of-season fruit and veg to supermarkets.

siraxeman said:

So who's tried a fortnight with no Internet  then? 

I did 17 years with no inferweb. *shudder*

I remember using the Internet for the first time at 16, needed to write an essay on a musical figure, I chose Bob Marley because a girl in my class was into reggea, and she had really nice tits.
i knew nothing about Bob Marley, so went to the library........ Sat down and was shown the Internet. 
It was incredible, 5 hours later I was kicked out at closing time, clutching my notes.......
Still barely had enough to fill half a page. 

DrJazzTap

I would have to dig out or renew my library card membership. Although I doubt they'd be open at 2am, when I want to find out who played that annoyingly recognisable extra from that old Hitchcock film.  

5redlights

I'd probably stop wanting to buy so many bloody guitars and play the ones I have more...

Handsome_Chris

richardhomer said:

Handsome_Chris said:

If the internet broke , I believe that we'd get less threads with click bait titles.

I reckon there'd be fewer words or phrases that I don't understand, like 'click bait', 'sock puppet', 'straw man', etc....

And, @richardhomer , that would be 33⅓% not true.

Straw man predates the internet. It refers to a logical fallacy rather than anything purely internet related. Click bait and sock puppet, as generally used in this arena, are more to do with internet machinations.

lloyd

First time I went on the internet I thought it was shit and would never catch on, think my ancestors said the same thing about fire, wheels, ships built out of metal etc.

richardhomer

Handsome_Chris said:

richardhomer said:

Handsome_Chris said:

If the internet broke , I believe that we'd get less threads with click bait titles.

I reckon there'd be fewer words or phrases that I don't understand, like 'click bait', 'sock puppet', 'straw man', etc....

And, @richardhomer , that would be 33⅓% not true.

Straw man predates the internet. It refers to a logical fallacy rather than anything purely internet related. Click bait and sock puppet, as generally used in this arena, are more to do with internet machinations.

In the words of Meatloaf, 2 out of 3 ain't bad...