The Internet- GONE!
 

You wake up, flip the switch of your coffee pot and puter as you head to the bathroom. Minutes later you flop into your desk chair with your clean teeth while smelling the coffee that is about ready. :coffee: Old trusty booted up and your DeskTop window is waiting for you to bring up your home page screen. You click your 'Launch Browser' button and do the eternal wait. It seems to always take that extra ten seconds as you watch the progress bar and hear those faint hard drive rattles for the first connection. :rolleyes2 ………………..The progress bar is really slow this morning ………………….. then it happens. First the window of "This page is not available", quickly followed by the pop-up message "Check your connection." You close everything and re-hit the 'Launch' button. After ten or fifteen minutes of re-booting, eternal waits, clock glancing, watching the blinking of the modem lights and getting the same pop-up, you grab the phone smugly smile to yourself because you are organized and can click the exact location in your 'phone book' for the 24/7 tech support number. :shrug:

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No answer …………………………………. Or worse yet, "This number is no longer in service" :faint:


It's GONE! ………… The complete internet is GONE!!! ……… GONE for now and forever!!!



What effect would this have on you? Besides the momentary initial rush of panic and frustration felt this second, how would this effect your day, your life? Would it be a simple matter of not being able to read a couple jokes and check prices that would make you have to do shopping the same way you did a couple years ago?

Do you make a living in a way that is TOTALLY involved and dependent with the internet? Does you employer use it as a main component to make the rest of their operation function?

Would it be a temporary personal routine adjustment of some amusements and conveniences you've become spoiled with, or would there be a deeper effect on your daily routine? How would it effect the rest of your family?

I'd be fucked and 34592837593758927 pounds lighter from having to walk to deliver all the messages I send in a day regarding students and school matters. The legal forms I use to track my students are all online. Stop scaring me old man.

LMAO- a true possibility in this unstable world we live in.
And for those of us old enough to remember what we did when there wasn't any internet yet!!!!!!!!!!
Just all need to remember one important thing of life ------------- "SHIT HAPPENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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I'd have no job, and the Silicon Valley economy would be in the shitter.

Maybe I should move back to Ohio....in my old job, everyone needed chemicals :D

My employer uses the internet for a shitload of things, from tracking and tracing cargo to accounting and pricing stuff.

Personally, the hours I work don't give me some of the social outlets of the 9 to 5ers, which makes you lot a large part of my social circle.

Scary, huh?

Something else we have in common....sad when my more normal relationships are found on the Web.

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:loveshowe

At least we found this outlet.

Millions of others live as social isolates without our advantages.

Yeah I use it to FTP files everyday. I'd just go back to the simpler days of shooting film.......... and using some of osuche's chemicals.

My apartment would be cleaner, I'd exercise more but living without Google would make life so different!

My company has been in business for almost 50 years so we'd survive without the Internet.

A year ago I would have been devastated to lose my computer. Hell, I did for a few days when it broke and I was in a panic because I couldn't chat with my Joe. Now that we are together and I'm so busy with life I could live without it. But, I sure would miss my Pixie friends and all the other great things the internet gives me. Ohhhh to live without Google!! :yikes:

I'd blame the kids. :p

Internet access is soooooooooo important to my job as well. It's amazing how addicted we get to "instant" access, isn't it?

I'm self-employed on several fronts, & one of my "jobs" is selling on Ebay (& has been for sevral years...so yeh, the lack of internet access would leave me, to use a technical term, screwed...also, my other job as a courier has me tethered to a pager, which the dispatchers use to send me info on the time & location of my stops, which they send out over...you guessed it... the Internet...on occasions, the pagers have quit functioning, & we are forced to relay info using another product of the modern information age, the Nextel phone with direct connect...& God help me if I'm out in the sticks somewhere without a Nextel-compatable cell tower nearby... :banghead:

From experience...AHEM...I'd blame PF. :D

Interesting ...

Well, my company would have to lay off half the folk who work in my business unit, as they roll web sites. We would have to revert to client server based reporting systems, which we left a few years ago. Still, SQL is SQL, so I wouldn’t have too much to unlearn.

I would regret the shrinking back of the horizons which the internet & http extended. That would be the cruelest cut, losing the extensiveness. I’d miss Google for sure. I am unsure how the kinder would deal with such a transition; they grew up in it. I watched it happen.

My life, as pathetic as it is, at times, would be drastically changed. I find myself doing lots of research, most of which is done on the Internet, and without it, I would have to drive to a Library to try and gain access to the data.

I wouldn't have access to many of the jobs for which I have applied, thanks to gaining the information about via the internet.

My fantasy baseball league would also have to revert to it's 1993 forms and usage of snail mail, and rolls of stamps.