What Would Happen If the Internet Went Down ... Forever?

[timbgtm]

WhT? And miss this paycheck?

It'd be tough getting by, lol.

 

[Treehawk]

what did people in 1978 do? play outside more i guess.

Driven Trans Ams like Smokey and the Bandit chasin chicks and drinkin beer..... That's what I was doing.

 

[UptaCamp]

the world would be a better place

Amen

 

[Psilloh1]

There are a couple of ways to really slow the Internet down, one is poison the root DNS records. This wouldn't be easy but it can be done "from the inside".

The second is to mess with the BGP advertisements. This one I have first hand experience with, though again, it would have to be done from the inside from a valid ASN.
In either case, there will be localized to widespread slow-downs, outages or strange results but they can be recovered from pretty easily once it's identified.

What the hell did you just say....?

 

[BIKER13]

the song Hallelujah comes to mind

 

[Stampede]

A return to the fax.... I bet most of you gave yours to the goodwill store right?

 

[GeauxLSU]

WhT? And miss this paycheck?

I pre-negotiated a big severance.

 

[Deleted member 79987]

There are a couple of ways to really slow the Internet down, one is poison the root DNS records. This wouldn't be easy but it can be done "from the inside". The second is to mess with the BGP advertisements. This one I have first hand experience with, though again, it would have to be done from the inside from a valid ASN. In either case, there will be localized to widespread slow-downs, outages or strange results but they can be recovered from pretty easily once it's identified.

What the hell did you just say....?

Don't worry about it. It's probably better you didn't understand, because then you would have been added to the same gubmint watch list as @ShawnZR-1 .....

 

[THREEJAYS]

With a world full of pansies it would be bad for a while

 

[spiderstone]

..more time to talk FACE TO FACE!