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budster101 · 12:14 AM

Wait.

Is that sort of an oxymoron?

What do you think would happen if suddenly the internet ceased functioning?
The DNS database collapsed and we had to rebuild everything?

I'd go through withdrawls. Some may go nuts. What do y'all think?
What would you do?

ManOfSteal · Jul 12, 2005, 12:08 AM

Some may go nuts? Aren't we all there already?

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 12:14 AM

Just found this:

These days we are all some what caught in an "Internet lifestyle", so here are some things you can do in the horrific event your ISP goes down...

1. Dial 911 immediately.

2. Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years.

3. You mean there's something else to do?

4. Threaten your ISP with an impeachment vote.

5. Work.

6. Re-introduce yourself to your immediate family.

7. Get that kidney transplant you've been putting off.

8. See if your eyes can still focus to distances further than 3 feet.

9. Get ass groove in chair fixed at store.

10. Tylenol... Tylenol! Where the hell is the Tylenol!

11. Do shopping with clothes on.

12. Check your mail box every 15 minutes.

Geo669 · Jul 12, 2005, 12:23 AM

Do we sell, french fries?

tavilach · Jul 12, 2005, 12:25 AM

Withdrawal would be the least of our problems. Think 1929. Stock market crash. Great Depression.

Geo669 · Jul 12, 2005, 12:28 AM

On a serious note, I want to try and stop using the internet for a week, or max 3 days.
Its a terrible addiction.

tavilach · Jul 12, 2005, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by Geo669

On a serious note, I want to try and stop using the internet for a week, or max 3 days.
Its a terrible addiction.

That's like burning all the paper in your house because you're addicted to doodling, but whatever floats your boat

.

Geo669 · Jul 12, 2005, 12:31 AM

but, i would see more daylight.

"not only am i not learning, i'm forgetting stuff i used to know"

Superchicken · Jul 12, 2005, 01:01 AM

If the interweb went down.. ... well... where would I get my software updates?

Cubeoid · Jul 12, 2005, 01:08 AM

We would have to talk to people.

OwlBoy · Jul 12, 2005, 01:55 AM

Originally Posted by Superchicken

If the interweb went down.. ... well... where would I get my software updates?

On floppy disks in the mail.

-Owl

Cubeoid · Jul 12, 2005, 02:21 AM

Warung · Jul 12, 2005, 02:26 AM

I'll be the first one to admit that I'd probably go through serious withdrawls. I just spend waaay to much time on the internet...

Uh, quick...I think I'll start downloading it to my HD before it goes away.

ManOfSteal · Jul 12, 2005, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by Cubeoid

We would have to talk to people.

pathogen · Jul 12, 2005, 06:43 AM

The internet will never die.

The online casinos have built a back up net just in case.

turtle777 · Jul 12, 2005, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by pathogen

The internet will never die.

The online casinos have built a back up net just in case.

I've got a backup of teh Intarweb as well. Fits on three floppies. Whodathunkit ?

-t

OogaBooga · Jul 12, 2005, 09:13 AM

http://www.archive.org

I think they're up to 16 petabytes now.

brapper · Jul 12, 2005, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by OogaBooga

http://www.archive.org

I think they're up to 16 petabytes now.

sexay!
http://web.archive.org/web/199901251...www.macnn.com/

CKr · Jul 12, 2005, 09:31 AM

I wouldn't be able to blog.... wait.. I wouldn't have anything to blog about! I wouldn't mind taking a trip back to the days of BBS's. I miss those days, they were so simple.

Cubeoid · Jul 12, 2005, 09:39 AM

Here's a little wit buscuit for yous guys(s).

I get off thanks to the internet. All those years of sexy pixels. Lawd have mercy.

Here's also a poem I just wrote about the internet:

[i]The Internet, bringer of various items.
The Internet, bringer of various (I can't think of a word rhyming with items)
The Interet, my digital father.
The Internet, my typos need ya'll not bother.
The Intternet, where idiots are proud and fat.
The Internet, any of ya'lls admins got a problem witth that?

*this post is brought to you by red wine and the sounds of funkadelic*

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 09:41 AM

Glad you discovered my little ironic juxtapositional oxymoronic turn of phrase.

"Welcome" <AOL greeting>

mitchell_pgh · Jul 12, 2005, 10:11 AM

I would magically become 10000X more productive.

dcmacdaddy · Jul 12, 2005, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by Geo669

On a serious note, I want to try and stop using the internet for a week, or max 3 days.
Its a terrible addiction.

Take a vacation. I am going backpacking for 10 days this summer.
I will have NO internet, TV, or telephone access during that whole time.
I can't wait! Try it for yourself, you just might like it.

jcadam · Jul 12, 2005, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by CKr

I wouldn't be able to blog.... wait.. I wouldn't have anything to blog about! I wouldn't mind taking a trip back to the days of BBS's. I miss those days, they were so simple.

ditto. BBSes were nice little tight-nit communities. I was a paying member of the 'macshack' BBS in Colorado Springs. Had 3 freakin phone lines dude! The $ membership came with an internet email address and access to newsgroups. The BBS server would dial out to the internet a few times a day to download everyone's email and newsgroup messages.

I miss the pre-web internet also. After the BBS closed down I got myself a UNIX shell account at a real ISP and dialed in via a terminal app. That worked well until the web explosion took hold...

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 12:03 PM

I can't live without the internet.

BTW:

The Internet, bringer of various items.
The Internet, bringer of various (I can't think of a word rhyming with items)

Rhymes with item.

The internet, bringer of various items.
The internet, bringer of spurious fifedoms. (sp)

kmkkid · Jul 12, 2005, 12:05 PM

If the internet ever went down, I don't think I'd have a use for computers anymore.

budster101 · Jul 12, 2005, 12:09 PM

I'd (errr I mean, some people) would have to go and actually pay for porn.

nredman · Jul 12, 2005, 04:22 PM

i'd try to read more, probably watch more tv, maybe exercise more, probably play video games

osiris · Jul 12, 2005, 04:53 PM

The first few weeks would likely be spent hopelessly clicking the reload button.
Then week or two of hellishly introspective drinking and substance abuse.

Soon after, upon the realization of such a great loss, I shall become a walking zombie free of any opinion differing from what the mainstream world has to offer.

DeathMan · Jul 12, 2005, 05:01 PM

I'd have to go back to college to learn something that exists.

Geo669 · Jul 12, 2005, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy

Take a vacation. I am going backpacking for 10 days this summer.
I will have NO internet, TV, or telephone access during that whole time.
I can't wait! Try it for yourself, you just might like it.

This I have done before, actually i do it at the end of every year, and it is amazing. The internet isn't even thought about. Oh its fantastic, but when you come back home, you always slip back into a routine

Superchicken · Jul 12, 2005, 11:15 PM

You know it's kinda strange how the web somehow got tied into just about every app you use. I imagine Digital photos wouldn't even be as popular if you couldn't send em to friends and junk... and how would I get my music!?

Kenneth · Jul 12, 2005, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by brapper

sexay!
http://web.archive.org/web/199901251...www.macnn.com/

I remember that look.

AlwaysONline 2.05b1 is the latest release of the utility designed to prevent AOL from (involuntarily) logging you off, and now works with AOL's 46-minute timer messages.

hahah

Superchicken · Jul 12, 2005, 11:43 PM

Oh my... that layout scares me...