Would would happen if the Internet ceased to exist?

In My Humble Opinion
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Threads would never get posted in the wrong forum again.

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I wont be able to post this first thread

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I’d crawl into a corner and die.

Seriously, the internet has made things so convenient for me, I don’t think I could ever go back.

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Nobody would be able to say “Apostophes are our friends. . .” :smiley:

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Like I said, if we had warning, we could revert to such systems. But with the Internet being as cheap and easy as it is, I imagine that few businesses still have such systems up and running. Is the infrastructure even still there?

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I’d crawl into a corner and die.

Seriously, the internet has made things so convenient for me, I don’t think I could ever go back.

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I’m still stuck on the how one would make the Internet disappear overnight, short of magic.

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For me, my job would immediately get 100% harder. (It’s so SO much easier to look up answers on Google than ref. books.)

I’d also have to devise a new way to look busy at work, between the questions.

I’d have to hire a local seamstress. (Most of my clothes are made by some dear sweet fat ladies in California and Miami.)

I’d have to special order bras again.

I’d have to actually shop in the mall or Wal-mart.

Please people! This is a nightmare!

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There would be little noticable difference in the time it takes to load a thread on SDMB. :smiley:

Bob

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…and no one would ever know about your dodgy ‘R’ key…

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The SDMB would be maybe 10 percent slower.

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blowing up the major dns servers.

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netscape 6, that’s remarkably hard to do and not that hard to recover from. Besides, it wouldn’t prevent the operation of the Internet; you can always get to the resources you need by IP address.

Remember, boys and girls: the Internet != the World Wide Web.

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To extend that thought a little bit, Kelly, if the internet were to go poof for some unimagineable reason. we’d invent it again soon enough.

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Off to IMHO.

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No one mentioned anything about Dancing Bush or Donkey Punch Britney Spears or Throw Creamed Corn at Bin Laden.

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Actually, way back when, before the web even, the military nodes were split from the internet, and formed their own network, milnet. This was done for security reasons and because the internet was “getting too crowded” (Ha!).

DD