# Should the internet shut down at 12 and star back up at 7 ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846 "2015-08-25T16:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/41 "2015-08-26T14:16:09Z")
I dunno, Gremlins? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/42 "2015-08-26T14:23:25Z")
Off to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/43 "2015-08-26T14:54:24Z")
You know what else would be cool? If every time you logged onto the Internet, you got one of those countdown leaders, like on old school movies. You know, with the sweeping second hand, where if the kids were giddy the whole class would count along. That would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/44 "2015-08-26T15:03:17Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > This is just an excuse to have the national anthem broadcast each night to millions upon millions of people. The internet is borderless. Whose national anthem are you proposing to show? If we put it to a vote the Chinese will win. Or maybe the countries could take turns and one day it’s Botswana’s and the next is Burundi’s and … ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/45 "2015-08-26T15:04:42Z")
None of your fancy-schmancy big city test patterns for us country folk, nosiree. Our transmitters went off right after the national anthem, and we got snow all night (sssssssss). And we liked it. (Interesting factoid I learned: when my wife lived in Tennessee (early 1970s), they played the US national anthem at shutdown, and Dixie when they fired up the station in the morning.) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/46 "2015-08-26T15:32:06Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > It’s nostalgia… and a longing for long lost deep sleep. I think I put this in the wrong section. But that’s sleep deprivation for you. Bring back the white dot. The best way to get the white dot is to turn off the TV. When a broadcaster shuts down its transmitter, the white dot (if it happens at all) is very brief and immediately overwhelmed with broadcast snow. The white dot of the electron gun cooling down after the deflection coils have stopped only really occurs when you power off the TV. So that’s what you really want: you want to turn off your own internet. You can do that any time you have the discipline to reach up and turn off your router. The rest of us watching the network equivalent of the late late late show (and enjoying it, thankyouverymuch) will keep enjoying our sleep deprivation. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/47 "2015-08-26T15:47:33Z")
If I wake up at 2 am from a nightmare, I MUST be able to access Wiki immediately to find out if there are real spiders that large. From a mental health perspective, NO, it should not be shut down from 12 to 7. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/48 "2015-08-26T15:55:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What the hell would be the point? You don’t want the drunks leaving the bars when they close, then drunk surfing the internet do ya? Someone could get hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/49 "2015-08-26T16:03:36Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > If I wake up at 2 am from a nightmare, I MUST be able to access Wiki immediately to find out if there are real spiders that large. From a mental health perspective, NO, it should not be shut down from 12 to 7. How does finding out that there _are_ spiders that large help you out, mental health-wise? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/50 "2015-08-26T16:04:27Z")
Yeah! And they should ban cookies, too, because I miss my waistline! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/51 "2015-08-26T16:28:28Z")
It’s always between 12 and 7 somewhere, so I think it’s a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/52 "2015-08-26T17:07:06Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > So we should, like, download our porn during the day and watch it at night? Sounds like a bit of a hassle. It has been scientifically proven that masturbation can be successfully accomplished using only the power of one’s mind. Amazing, but true. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/53 "2015-08-26T18:08:20Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Or an Italian guys who LOOKS like an American Indian who is crying (he’d be an actor, so he wouldn’t really be crying…just looking like he’s crying). Unless he’s a method actor. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/54 "2015-08-26T18:15:16Z")
> [@MrQwertyasd](#): > > It has been scientifically proven that masturbation can be successfully accomplished using only the power of one’s mind. Amazing, but true. No hands? Impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/55 "2015-08-26T19:36:11Z")
So if you shut off the internet after 11pm, that’ll take out all the cellphones too, because they use Internet Protocol. Also many ATMs. Are you _trying_ to make us broke and uncommunicative? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/56 "2015-08-26T19:41:00Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > If I wake up at 2 am from a nightmare, I MUST be able to access Wiki immediately to find out if there are real spiders that large. From a mental health perspective, NO, it should not be shut down from 12 to 7. Mental note: look into editing Wikipedia article about spiders. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/57 "2015-08-26T19:55:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What the hell would be the point? A bright white dot on your monitor. Geez, read the OP. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/58 "2015-08-26T20:04:37Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > A bright white dot on your monitor. Well, maybe you could keep a towel handy… Oh, sorry, I thought we were still talking about masturbation. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/59 "2015-08-26T23:49:33Z")
I’m guessing the OP’s point is to enforce bedtime and keep people from late night surfing. But one time zone’s night is another time zone’s day. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846/60 "2015-08-26T23:53:08Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I’m guessing the OP’s point is to enforce bedtime and keep people from late night surfing. But one time zone’s night is another time zone’s day. And even in the same time zone one person’s late night is not another’s late night. For some early risers, even on typical schedules, that morning cut off means things like not checking email/new/etc before work either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-internet-shut-down-at-12-and-star-back-up-at-7/728846.md?page=4)