What Would Happen If The Internet Collapsed For A Day?

[Deleted]

What would happen if the internet would shut down for 24 hours?

[Moralgy]

World War 3 would start.

[unfilteredJW]

I'd read a book and wait for the incredibly fun reads the next day.

[GennGreymane]

I would sit down and cry

[Dug]

I'd imagine it would be pretty catastrophic. A lot of our modern world is very reliant on the internet and being able to send/receive data at a moments notice. I wouldn't be able to give details but I imagine hospitals would be in pretty bad shape.

[Dread Pirate Phayde]

It'd be like the before time, the early 90s, when you read books in paper format, played all games offline so you actually knew the people who claimed to have banged your Mom

[Mummbles]

Anything that could make the entire net collapse would fuck us all up to an absurd degree. Think global nuclear war, everything goes to hell.

[breadisfunny]

A lot of people would lose a lot of money. Some companies might bankrupt, some people would probably die due to various reasons.

do go on....why exactly would someone die because the internet is down?

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Anything that could make the entire net collapse would fuck us all up to an absurd degree. Think global nuclear war, everything goes to hell.

i smell fearmongering.

[Reeve]

Some companies would lose some money, but by and large, the world would keep spinning.

[Raetary]

maybe cry in a corner.

[Reeve]

do go on....why exactly would someone die because the internet is down?

Eh, maybe a transmittal or a request for an organ replacement can't be sent, or the database that controls such things can't be reached.

[Aeula]

We find the person responsible and PUT. THEM. DOWN.

Also my 4000th post, yay.

[GennGreymane]

maybe cry in a corner.

We would cry together

[Hyve]

Uncontrollable weeping!

[Life-Binder]

Chaos Gods consume our galaxy

[Sesshomaru]

Considering FFXIV is currently under a 24h maintenance.
I'm experiencing it already.

On topic, whilst I actually was on topic with my two lines above.
If someone manage to completely ruin the net for a day, then anything associated with the net will be abruptly turn asunder and then take the time to repair the damages.
As said by someone, (some) companies will go bankrupt, we won't get our information. Duplication error for online purchase and whatnot.

But relatively speaking, from a personal standpoint of when (or if) the net collapsed and only that, as it would come back within the day, then all my activities related to the net would be ruined for the day. Of course I'd be bored as I no longer could access anything related to fun without going outside. But it is at that point it would be really great to take a long walk, perhaps hours even!
Maybe climb a small mountain, warm some water and drink some hot cocoa while feeling the winter breeze.
Card games maybe, and of course, my lovely newspaper with Sudoku to solve.

[breadisfunny]

Eh, maybe a transmittal or a request for an organ replacement can't be sent, or the database that controls such things can't be reached.

that's what phones are for...they are called telephones. also fax machines,non smart cellphones.

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Hospitals looking for various things, organs, blood, etc, etc, is done by special inventory software, and sometimes by phone. A lot of phone systems are now VOIP.

People use GPS software that is driven by the internet... get into accidents because they did not get an update.

There are different places where the internet is used that if removed could be life affecting.

for the second one it's called keeping your eyes on the road. if you can't do that. DON'T DRIVE.
go on list these other various places...i'm waiting.

[Nakotsu]

What would happen if the internet would shut down for 24 hours?

id complain and get 1 day free credit from my isp and 1 day free wow.

[breadisfunny]

id complain and get 1 day free credit from my isp and 1 day free wow.

not in the states you won't you'll just get blamed and told it's your fault if it's comcast.
given tech advice that won't work if it's time warner.
and told no if its any other company.

[Reeve]

that's what phones are for...they are called telephones. also fax machines,non smart cellphones.

A phone won't tell you who should get an organ when. It can't be used to look up patient history, blood types, etc. You can sometimes get someone on the other end of a telephone to look up those files, but that takes a lot more time, when every second counts. Today's systems aren't designed around having someone on the phone 100% of the time whose sole job it is to run through these sorts of files.