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- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+60I've lost the ability to go without digg.
- jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I can quit anytime.
- TheCookieMaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I went for 9 hours without touching the internet about a week ago
I thought that was pretty good. although 8 of that was sleeping. - johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's bigger than that tsunamisteve. Think corporate. I used to work at a company that used web based services to let me know what customers I needed to do a site survey for, and I sent the data from the survey through the same webprogram. I do most of my banking online as well, since I work overseas. I do have a local account set up for just such an emergency, but the banks aren't prepared for a flood of people walking up to the tellers.
- ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It's so rare that hostile nations deploy ICBB's (intercontinental ballistic bulldozers) that a major strike is probably more of a concern.
- locojones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13For those of us who pay, it won't affect the second tier of the Internet. lol
- screampants, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@tsunami
What do you think the cell towers run on man? Out in the boonies they have to link up on the big circle grid that we call the 'internet'. If that gets cut in the right places. Gone. Your phone will work... in town on your closed loop. Picture that everything is going wrong, but sure you can still call for pizza, but you had better have cash cuz your card won't work anymore. - o0nac0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If the Internet disappeared I would freak out. Screw social networking I need news. I am completely addicted to sites like digg, newsvine, fark, etc. etc. I need the constant rapid always available flow of information.
I'd be devastated. I'd feel completely disconnected from whats going on in the world.
This is a scary thought for me. - gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9yes. I'd go to MSN or Yahoo
- mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7See where centralization can lead? Internet was made to be indestructible. Now just flip of a switch at at&t and we're all done. Something ***** up along the way.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7My ISP prepares me on an almost weekly basis. Bastards...
- mightymouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Who cares, I'm not even ready for an internet outage, and never will be!
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You forgot to add porn.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If the internet goes out I guess I'll have to go outside and see the sun again. I hope it doesn't go out, I'll burn to easily now...
- cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5my internet life consists of mostly 10 sites. and alot of that time is spent being bored on those sites. for the past few months digg has been the largest consmer of my internet time. i think i have a problem. but i do spend time on the computer thats not on the internet, being creative and making some progress with projects ive had on hold. maybe i should totally quit the internet for a week. it would be like digital camping.
- ZenKai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5True that! I get all the vitamin D I need from the healthy glow of my dual 21's!
- dude3609, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5there IS always cnn, but they would also have a lack of info if the internet went down.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sorry about the dupe, kazzyD. My bad.
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ FINKPLOYD
Mexico. They have the least access to the net. So they really don't rely on it.
The state of Kentucky is a close second. - masonreloaded, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They wouldn't be able to fix it, cos nobody would be able to find their way to the damaged areas. Since Google Maps probably 90% of people don't own a roadmap...
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm prepaired.
I have some paper, several pencils and a pony express guy waiting outside!
I also have porn in magazine form.
Take that internet "terrorists".
:-P - Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm an internet addict and badly need a patch. Unfortunately, the only one i have doesn't even fix Windows.
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I have no idea what the hell I'd do with all my time if the internet went down. I'm only 16 and think about how people grew up w/out the internet (like my parents!). Man that must have sucked.
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4NEWSFLASH! Last I checked, the phone system doesn't work via the Internet.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'd buy the domain
- ThisIsJames, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how is the entire intarweb in the US going to go out? I can see like maybe a town or city having disrupted internet, but that's hardly a national crisis.
- TheFoundry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh no! It would be like... The 70's or something! We'd actually have to you know... go outside!
That aside, I would imagine if the internet around the world crashed the stock market may crash. - finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4May I ask what country is prepared for an Internet Outage?
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Hold on, I have to ask Al Gore if this is even possible!??!
Oh I went there. - Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Without accessing Digg everyday, I would be lost!
- SleeperGTP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I work for a photography lab that houses around 80TB of images monthly that are FTP'd in from thousands of customers, if our pipe is cut for more than a month that is $10+ million in lost revenue. We have a backup T3 but that can only do so much because it connects into the Sprint backbone. We would be able to connect to our local customers that border with my state, but we would lose our credit card auth. because the connection with VeriSign would be lost. A lot would be affected because we have become too reliant on a relatively new technology that still has weak points and isn't as redundant as we think it is. The world wouldn't stop spinning but a lot of revenue would be lost.
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm prepared for a small scale outage. I have a neighbor who is on DSL and one who is on Cable who both have unprotected wireless routers so if one goes out I can always hop on the other. :)
- Mrmazoku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm pretty sure the whole point of the Internet was to not ever go 'down'. It could be disrupted quite a bit, but would take alot to actually be gone.
- WickedDrag0oN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I know the company I work for is ***** if the webternet goes out. All our phones are VOIP, and we rely highly on thoes phones.
- Frieked, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Forget the internet... can you imagine if one day google just decided... ok we're done... not doing this whole intarweb thing anymore and shut down all its services?
- Carg0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Right...and it wouldn't suprise me at all if these scumbags in suits used this report to justify further methods of chipping away at our civil liberties much the same way politicians have been using the popular 'war on terror' excuse.
- mookieXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Normal phones would go down too, at least international calls
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Tears.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You sir are called a douche bag.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3AOL = America Offline....
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm, no it wouldn't. You can only connect to P2P nodes which you can, you know, connect to. You suggest that the nodes you connect to directly, or the last of the many eventual nodes which you achieve a connection through, would be able to contact the server.
The whole way the internet was designed is to automatically reroute data around downed links. If there is any route that can be taken to get to a specific server, it will be taken, either automatically, or the ISP will change the routes themselves.
If you can connect to P2P peer node A, and P2P peer node A can connect to P2P peer node B, and P2P peer node B can get to the server you want to get to, then it stands to reason that you can directly get to the server. After all, most P2P clients aren't going to be multihomed, or even if they are, carrying foreign traffic. Networks that ARE multihomed and DO route foreign traffic, contribute to the internet backbone, and are the networks whose links are going to go down if the 'internet' goes down. - Arthemys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is the same as saying, "U.S. Not Prepared for Infrastructure Outage."
No of course we're not ready for losing a major piece of our infrastructure, it's like asking if we're ready to do without the PSTN or the power grids. We rely on the Internet like we do any other service. - apache2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2forgot to mention that digg is a huge social network of comments that is a huge part in the fun of reading the news.
- kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks, BloodJunkie.
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmm... so backbones should be the new target of terrorists?
- CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just because they're VoIP phones doesn't mean an internet outage would affect you. We run almost all VoIP phones but all of our calls go out the PSTN to save on WAN bandwidth. What happens now if you lose WAN connectivity now? You should fail over to SRST in the meantime. If not, you should have a long talk with your VoIP installer.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4My company would be dead in the water without the internet. We build internet software, and do some ecommerce sales on the side. We'd all have to find new jobs.
- CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're using AOL then you pretty much are offline anyway - you certainly aren't using the proper internet.
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't, I noticed the second thing I do when I get up(first being hit snooze about 10 times) is check Digg or go on the internet :(
- CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah - without the internet how would the US government illegally spy on the financial transactions of people in other countries?
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