[macintologist]

What if you sat down at your mac and then for no reason the internet just didn't work at all. And this was happening all over the world. The internet just shut down..permanently.

What would you do?

[Jaey]

Kill myself.

Or play single player UT.

[RonnieoftheRose]

If the internet stopped. Good question.

Good reasons for the internet stopping
1. Spelling would get better.
2. Rightwingers would have less voice.
3. People would revert to face to face contact, hand written letters, etc.
4. Pedophiles, hackers and terrorists wouldn't be able to do their dirty work.
5. People would spend less time spreading rumors, stealing identities and talking ********.
6. Books and libraries would regain their traditional value.

Bad reasons for the internet stopping
1. VoIP would never happen.
2. It would take longer or be more expensive to contact distant relatives and business associates.
3. Leftwingers would have less voice.
4. No more technology or film previews.
5. Researching subjects would take longer.
6. The use of paper would make it harder on the environment.

[d4nth3m4n]

what version of safari is that? i dont have a debug menu...

[macintologist]

I enabled the debug menu using some freeware, it was a while ago.

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
6. The use of paper would make it harder on the environment.

You do know that we use a lot more paper since the introduction of the computer+printer ?

[RonnieoftheRose]

Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
You do know that we use a lot more paper since the introduction of the computer+printer ?

It would be even more without a digital form of delivering messages and documents.

[gerbnl]

Originally posted by macintologist:
What if you sat down at your mac and then for no reason the internet just didn't work at all. And this was happening all over the world. The internet just shut down..permanently.

What would you do?

How would you know? I mean, that it was happening to others too?

anyway, i wouldn't miss this place very much but will be quite annoyed if it happened while leeching a good movie.

I will be very pissed for having to pay for crappie movies again. Or even worse: longing for unobtainable ones.
I might quit watching movies all together and dig up my library card.

[wdlove]

Would just have to go back to the life that I lived prior to using the Internet. Hopefully develop better habits.

[Gankdawg]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
If the internet stopped. Good question.

Good reasons for the internet stopping
2. Rightwingers would have less voice.
*
Bad reasons for the internet stopping
3. Leftwingers would have less voice.

Huh? Rightwingers rule the internet and Leftwingers don't have access?

[MacMan4000]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
what version of safari is that? i dont have a debug menu...

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30110063041629

do that and you WILL have a debug menu.

[Jaey]

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
Huh? Rightwingers rule the internet and Leftwingers don't have access?

No, he's saying that it's good that the Rightwingers won't have any more access. In other words, he doesn't like Rightwingers.

[Gankdawg]

Originally posted by Jaey:
No, he's saying that it's good that the Rightwingers won't have any more access. In other words, he doesn't like Rightwingers.

Right, but I think the internet is pretty much equal access. I took his meaning to say that somehow LW have less access because of RW. Perhaps I'm just reading it wrong.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
Right, but I think the internet is pretty much equal access. I took his meaning to say that somehow LW have less access because of RW. Perhaps I'm just reading it wrong.

If the internet goes down, both left and rightwingers won't have any internet voice. He thinks it's good that rightwingers won't, but bad that leftwingers won't.

[MacMan4000]

Originally posted by Synotic:
If the internet goes down, both left and rightwingers won't have any internet voice. He thinks it's good that rightwingers won't, but bad that leftwingers won't.

What he said.

[MallyMal]

A good number of folks would be unemployed, bored, and having porn withdrawal.

[MacMan4000]

Originally posted by MallyMal:
A good number of folks would be unemployed, bored, and having porn withdrawal.

you forgot to mention "free-music withdrawl". That would affect me the most... with "porn withdrawl" coming in at a close second.

[TheBadgerHunter]

I'd be fine. I downloaded the internet.

[ManOfSteal]

Yeah, I heard the Internet was backed up on floppies by somebody the other day, so it would be okay.

[MallyMal]

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
I'd be fine. I downloaded the internet.

Does it run on Mac?

[MacGorilla]

I'd simply go intense psychotherapy until I recovered.

[cszar2001]

1) Kill myself
2) Freak out
3) Become a buddhist monk (I�m already bald)
4) Kill the person responsible for the disaster
5) Go to be early

Not necessarily in that order.

[MallyMal]

Originally posted by cszar2001:
1) Kill myself
2) Freak out
3) Become a buddhist monk (I�m already bald)
4) Kill the person responsible for the disaster
5) Go to be early

Not necessarily in that order.

I like this order,
You would go to bed early, wake up, then freak out and kill the person responsible for the disaster. Now you are on the run from the police so you become a buddhist monk. You can't take anti-porn policy at the temple so you kill yourself.

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by MallyMal:
Does it run on Mac?

It's MAC

[MallyMal]

Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
It's MAC

*Shaking head*

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by MallyMal:
*Shaking head*

[Powaqqatsi]

Originally posted by MallyMal:
*Shaking head*

[Superchicken]

Internet2 would get a lot more traffic

I imagine computer ussage by most people would go down a lot, and I'd have to find something else to do in my normal web time... if it just VANISHED I think society would be seriously screwed up... though that's kinda like asking what would happen if all internal combustion engines stopped working.

[RonnieoftheRose]

Originally posted by Superchicken:
if it just VANISHED I think society would be seriously screwed up...

...because you'd get up from the computer and walk outside. Please internet don't vanish. Keep Superchicken at home.

[cszar2001]

Originally posted by MallyMal:
I like this order,
You would go to bed early, wake up, then freak out and kill the person responsible for the disaster. Now you are on the run from the police so you become a buddhist monk. You can't take anti-porn policy at the temple so you kill yourself.

[MacMan4000]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
...because you'd get up from the computer and walk outside. Please internet don't vanish. Keep Superchicken at home.

What is this "outside" you speak of?

[demograph68]

What if the internet just...stopped?

My porn stash would cease in growing...

[Nacente]

Simply, leave like we done in the 80's (only half for me) and half 90's.

[TailsToo]

Originally posted by MacMan4000:
What is this "outside" you speak of?

Yeah, I sure don't want to know!

[wataru]

I'd have to go to a store and buy real porn.

[MallyMal]

See, I told you there would be severe porn withdrawal goin' down


MoS, thanks

[demograph68]

[york28]

Safari gives me that "cannot find server" crap a lot. Well, more often than Firefox, which never does it.

If the internet ceased to exists, two things would be true:
1) I would be a much better drummer since I'd spend less time working on:
2) My career or whatever would be toast. Not a lot of websites to build without the internet.

On second thought, I say we go for it. Who's with me?

[DigitalEl]

Where are you from Macintologist, where it's 52 degrees CELSIUS, Cardassia Prime? I'm in Phoenix and it's never that hot! 112 every now and then, but never 125.

[cjrivera]

Couldn't Al Gore just make a new one?

[Link]

Option 1: Get a lot of ethernet cable and some switches

Option 2: Build a new internet by having the phone companies use new networks to link their offices

[macintologist]

Originally posted by DigitalEl:
Where are you from Macintologist, where it's 52 degrees CELSIUS, Cardassia Prime? I'm in Phoenix and it's never that hot! 112 every now and then, but never 125.

http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html

[DigitalEl]

http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html

LOL -

[Randman]

Don't worry. Something else would come along to fill the void and let far too many people waste time.

[Person Man]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
Bad reasons for the internet stopping

4. No more technology or film previews.

You don't need the internet for technology or film previews. People would do it the "old" way:

1. Big old technology trade shows for tech previews (the internet is partially responsible for the death of things like Comdex and the like).

2. Previews of films would be shown in movie theaters before the movie just like they always have (although there would be 4 or 5 trailers only instead of 2 or 3 one to two minute commercials and 4 or 5 trailers like they do now... c'mon, who wants to sit and watch 3 extra-long commercials before the movie?).

[Randman]

Uhh, let's see. People would get out more often. People would write letters. People would read newspapers and books and magazines. People would talk to one another.
Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing after all, especially if it could take 75% of what's on TV with it.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by manofsteal:
Yeah, I heard the Internet was backed up on floppies by somebody the other day, so it would be okay.

Well, that's the least I expect.

-t

[djohnson]

Originally posted by Randman:
Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing after all, especially if it could take 75% of what's on TV with it.

No internet would mean our kids might stop being so overweight! It is great to see what a little exercise will do.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
1. Spelling would get better.

No argument on that one.

2. Rightwingers would have less voice.

Left-wingers stand to lose more in that exchange. Besides which, does not everyone have a right to an equal voice?

3. People would revert to face to face contact, hand written letters, etc.

Again, no argument. This would be wonderful.

4. Pedophiles, hackers and terrorists wouldn't be able to do their dirty work.

All of these things existed well before the Internet as we know it appeared on the scene. More traditional methods would regain prominence, but nothing would stop.

5. People would spend less time spreading rumors, stealing identities and talking ********.

Perhaps not stealing identities, but "spreading rumors" and "talking ********" are time-honored traditions in every culture. These would not stop by any means; once again, traditional methods would regain prominence.

6. Books and libraries would regain their traditional value.

This is perhaps the best point you've made.

1. VoIP would never happen.

There's a lot of gee-whiz factor here, but I fail to see the real value in VoIP except for price, and this advantage will dissipate as more traditional phone companies are forced to compete with it.

2. It would take longer or be more expensive to contact distant relatives and business associates.

Excellent point. Then again, is the time delay really such a bad thing? Everything moves so quickly nowadays, and while this has some good effects, it also has some very bad ones.

3. Leftwingers would have less voice.

See "Rightwingers would have less voice", above.

4. No more technology or film previews.

I'm not sure this is a Bad Thing, to be honest.

5. Researching subjects would take longer.

6. The use of paper would make it harder on the environment.

I'm not so sure. The "paperless office" has never been further from a reality than it has been since the advent of the Internet. Companies use more paper than before, not less, and most of it is for the same type of BS overcommunication which the Internet initially made possible. If the Net were to disappear, perhaps more succinct and valuable communication would once again come into favor, and paper use would again drop.

[york28]

Originally posted by djohnson:


No internet would mean our kids might stop being so overweight! It is great to see what a little exercise will do.

Except he said no internet, not no video games. Nintendo, XBox, et al.

I say we get rid of TVs and the internet. Now we're talking.