What if the internet died?

[Who's Wee Dug]

We would in effect be screwed.

 

[Neal Asher]

Damn but I'd be able to get some work done. Only problem, I'd have to find addresses rather than emails and post the stuff ... would it arrive? Maybe.

 

[alternicity]

I animate stuff with my kids, and when we are between ISPs, or are having our bandwidth throttled we get more modelling and animation done by a long way.

 

[Rodders]

Mobile phones would probably be used as phones only. No bad thing IMO. Digital cameras probably wouldn't be such a big hit either.

 

[The_African]

I always wonder what life would/possibly will be like if we ran out of fossil fuels and had to return to a pre-indiustrial way of life.

 

[Esioul]

If the internet died I would get more work done. But I might also go mad.

 

[Interference]

I'd go back to having a friend called Horace that no one else can see (as opposed to dozens of friends with even crazier names that no one else can see ).

 

[Esioul]

I'd probably make friends with Horace too. Right now at this very moment the itnernet is the only thing keepign my sanity going. I'm goign cross-eyed from some very difficult compuetr work, it helps to break away and play with the internet every once in a while.

 

[Interference]

Get yer own Horace

 

[Esioul]

I'm sure Horace can fit us both into his social calender.

 

[Interference]

Nah, he spends all his time on the Internet

 

[Vertigo]

I'd go back to having a friend called Horace that no one else can see (as opposed to dozens of friends with even crazier names that no one else can see ).

Definitely Horace not Harvey (the giant rabbit)?

I would be totally stuffed if the internet died. I run a digital printing lab with another fellow director. I do all the software, web design and finance. The lab and essentially all the business is based in Redhill, I live in the Highlands of Scotland (650 miles away for those not familiar with the UK's geography). Not a problem with broadband, I can even take over control of computers in the lab to test new software. As I say I would be stuffed without it.

 

[Esioul]

I suppose it would make my career difficult to. And my sanity, always my sanity.

The highlands of Scotland are nice, Vertigo- much more exciting than this lab. Everyone is too quiet in here.

 

[Interference]

Harvey got into movies -- I never saw him again

 

[Vertigo]

I know about the sanity bit and actually that's also quite important for me - remote working like this kind of reduces your interaction with others - so I figure this place is good for me (I think ). And yes, the Higlands are nice which is the only reason I chose to live here (I don't actually do any "local" work here), and to be honest they probably do more for my sanity than the internet .

 

[Vertigo]

Harvey got into movies -- I never saw him again

And what a great movie he made too .

 

[Interference]

Which we could still see, even without an internet (just to tentatively nudge against the topic )

 

[Vertigo]

Which we could still see, even without an internet (just to tentatively nudge against the topic )

I have it on video which wouldn't work at all on the internet (nudging right back )

 

[Esioul]

Yeah bit isolated as a postgrad too, especially at this time of year, so the internet helps.

 

[Natasha Bennett]

Eh, I think South Park covered what would happen effectively enough