What problems would arise if the Internet came to a screeching halt?

Adamantium

Grammar police suicide up by 250%

Serious answers also welcome

fred funk }{

It would be absolutely

Poor Uncle Tom

...the streets and boreens would be full of yabbering idiots...

pablo128

I might get a bit of work done on my cars if it happened. Or even give them a wash and hoover.

tomwaterford

All joking aside...where I work would more or less shut down....

they rely heavily on the Internet there

hairyslug

I would feel slightly sorry for any students doing projects

WellThen?

Probably catch up on my reading, and my cooking skills.

Might kill myself too.

hatrickpatrick

There would be an invasion of Spooky Ghosts

crockholm

Cats would be doing their usual feline frolicks,just no one there to see it. A sad and sobering thought.

Tzardine

Kitten adoption would go down by 6,000,000 %.

People only get them to share photos and videos on Facebook and you tube.

AtomicHorror

Depends. How loud would this screeching be?

shedweller

The porn industry would fold overnight. Or not

bop1977

It would be worse than the time somebody typed Google into Google.

Adamantium

hairyslug wrote: »

I would feel slightly sorry for any students doing projects

"You'll have to use a book...like this" *Lecturer pulls out ancient dusty rectangle.

Student: "What.... is it? seems like a.... 2 tonne medievil weapon that I clatter over my classmates head when they do nothing?"

Tearin It Up

WellThen? wrote: »

Probably catch up on my reading, and my cooking skills.

Might kill myself too.

Me, I wouldn't get any cooking done cause I google things like how to cook a chicken properly, proper gas mark and the likes.

Life would end. Imagine no YouTube which is a massive help. How would I fix my computer without YouTube ?

cml387

Instead of facebook, people would have to back to scribbling on lavatory walls.

spud82

I'd have to wait weeks to watch US shows on TV

KKkitty

People would have to talk to each other face to face. Instagram folks would cry themselves into an early grave. How else would people know what they had for lunch or how they did at the gym.

Adamantium

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Depends. How loud would this screeching be?

About three-fiddy decibels.

Or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

Standard Toaster

Is Aertel still available in your dooms day scenario?

Bongalongherb

No biggie regarding the internet vanishing, I'd miss it, but there's always radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrg3hjSNblA

Adamantium

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Is Aertel still available in your dooms day scenario?

Yes there will always be room in our brave new world
for Aertel.

After all, How else will graphic designers find nay,... fufill their creative potential drawing crude brightly coloured lego men?

bodhrandude

Could you not just Google to find out why the internet isn't working.

Jb1989

Eh no boards, Devastation like 😂

The_Valeyard

People would start paying for porn again.

I'd stop subscribing to online games.

Keyboard warriors would need counselling as would those who comment on thejournal.ie

DVD and CD sales would increase again.

BBDBB

increased cases of sunburn as people actually went outside for the first time in years

goz83

I would have a new paper weight, once called iPad.

KKkitty

Doctors surgeries would be quiet as no one could panic after googling their ailments. There'd be people getting lost because no one can read a paper map anymore.

Bongalongherb

Maybe it would be more detrimental if our electrical power-system went down from a sun flare, no electricity, no internet, no lighting, no mobile-phone communication, no tv (great). Back out into the garden with the gas cooker cooking roasting or toasting bread at the fire-place. Just like camping all over again.

Ruu

Pornositis epidemic.

SMJSF

I'd actually lose contact with people since phone numbers don't really exist for me thanks to Facebook and email.
the only number I have for a close person to me is my mother (she can't figure out technology- not even her microwave or tv!).
I'd crack!
I also use the internet for a lot- how to cook something, how to get somewhere by Google maps and bus apps, reviews/tutorials, news, college help, etc.

recylingbin

I wouldn't be able to google a killer answer to this thread.

Bongalongherb

If it all went, I'd just travel on a destination to the Mojave tribe in nevada and live with them in-taking their world and of course ayahuasca in my new existence.

Grays Sports Almanac

People would call you to tell you that they're at the airport about to go on holiday.

I also imagine I'd get a lot of post consisting of polaroids of people's dinners.

The Backwards Man

Minor inconvenience for a while, but life would go on. What you young whippersnappers forget is that most remember a world without internet, and we could back to it, and survive quite well, albeit reluctantly.

Different story in fifty or sixty years time, yous would be like the Eloi from The Time Machine.

Bongalongherb

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Minor inconvenience for a while, but life would go on. What you young whippersnappers forget is that most remember a world without internet, and we could back to it, and survive quite well, albeit reluctantly.

Different story in fifty or sixty years time, yous would be like the Eloi from The Time Machine.

Before the internet came to Ireland it was reading humongous amounts of books. So if the net died, just go back to reading books so all good in my book.

qt3.14

US armed forces interface with the internet so they'd be scrambling for a fix.

recylingbin

Arguments in pubs would have to be settled in the library or by ringing the county secretary

Bongalongherb

qt3.14 wrote: »

US armed forces interface with the internet so they'd be scrambling for a fix.

Just don't forget the head-on solar-flare as all the drones will drop from the sky and satellites will be cooked to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin. Then you better start swimmin or you'll sink like a stone for the times they are a-changin.

Adamantium

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Just don't forget the head-on solar-flare as all the drones will drop from the sky and satellites will be cooked to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin. Then you better start swimmin or you'll sink like a stone for the times they are a-changin.

A solar flare is likely the only way the thread title could happen, in fact it probably will this century, it has happened before but it was in the late 1800's and there was only telegraph poles to be knocked out. Would be a few months before the world would get back its electricity.

Dozer Dave

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Minor inconvenience for a while, but life would go on. What you young whippersnappers forget is that most remember a world without internet, and we could back to it, and survive quite well, albeit reluctantly.

Different story in fifty or sixty years time, yous would be like the Eloi from The Time Machine.

Says grandad with the big post count.

shruikan2553

I would become a part of the most employable people as others beg for the return.

Although we would probably be lost too as turning it off and on again wont work and we cant google it.

mikemac1

I might actually do some work in my office drone job!

niallo27

Luckily I have stored up 14gb of porn for such circumstances so I should be ok until September.

force eleven

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

...the streets and boreens would be full of yabbering idiots...

Ah the good old days...

mylefttesticle

I used to be a great believer in free speech. Although that was before the internet.

Into The Blue

You'd have to ring Mick's garage for parts..
You'd have to ring hotels to book, or see if there's free rooms.
Have to start actually going to the bank. Do they still open crap hours?

You'd have to make up your own mind on what to be offended about, without boards to validate your grievances.

Buona Fortuna

None.

We'd all just have tea.

Then maybe some cake.

aido79

I know most people have answered this question as taking it as what would happen if they had no internet access but if the internet actually stopped working worldwide the damage would be enormous as most things from traffic lights to power stations to the stock market rely heavily on the internet. Within minutes of it stopping working there would be car crashes and power cuts all around the world. The world relies so much on the internet these days that it would be very hard to continue without it.

Grandpa Hassan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0

uck51js9zml2yt

Boards would stop and Gordon DAV and tom Dunne would be out of a job.