Things That Will Happen If The Internet Crumbles ! We all may not want to admit it but without the internet, our lives
will collapse. What do i mean? There are things that without the
internet would be completely useless, things that we may have taken for
granted because we use them everyday, things that we often use then one
day found out that it uses internet.
We all may not want to admit it but without the internet, our lives
will collapse. What do i mean? There are things that without the
internet would be completely useless, things that we may have taken for
granted because we use them everyday, things that we often use then one
day (by reading this amazingly written article) we just found out that
it uses internet. I am here to shine a light on all these everyday
objects we don’t care about just because we don’t know how much we would
actually need it if they were for some reason gone. Internet is today
one of the most important part of our everyday lives. There are a large
number of things that can be done with the use of the internet and so it
is very important. Today internet is used for different purposes
depending upon the requirement. It is amazing how useful the internet is
and yet most people are unaware of the numerous benefits of the
internet. The internet is useful in each and every field. You can use
it for education, share market, business and much more. You can also use
it for sports, news update, mobile themes, wallpapers, video’s,
softwares and so on. The internet is very useful, provided you use it
correctly. It helps you to stay connected with the world. you can keep
the current records of the whole world at your fingertips.
How exactly the Internet Plug could ever get pulled is a complicated
question, due to the expansive infrastructure that makes up the
Internet. It would probably require the shutting down of every server
and local DNS around the world. Some people have spoken about a major
virus infection spreading through all servers and computers, rendering
them / the Internet in a paralyzed state. There is also another wild
theory where by the wind generated by huge solar flares will disrupt
anything that carries current, from telegraph wires, anything metal,
computers, servers etc. You can read about this theory if you Google
“Carrington Event of 1959” This theory is said to be predicted by Nasa.
What would life be like without the World Wide Web. An interesting
question in an age where the Internet plays an integral part of everyday
life, business and society! So what are the implications of a life
without the internet? Well firstly we should ask the question in a more
specific circumstance. What would life be like with no Internet if the
‘plug’ was pulled today? We’ll be looking at this topic from this angle,
rather than trying to imagine the world without the Internet had it
never been invented. Why? Because the difference of life without the
internet ever invented and life with internet shut down today is
incredibly and surprisingly massive.
10 Things That Would Happen If The Internet Collapsed
10: No More Food In Stores
When i say no more food, i don’t mean that there is going to be
absolutely no more food existing on the earth. I mean there will be no
more food or snacks available in any store. The reason for this is that
many food manufacturers rely heavily on the internet for many things
from ordering supplies to shipping and so on.
9: No Access To Money
Think for a moment about the topic of this article, now think about
all that hard earned money you got, stored inside your bank account.
Can’t wait to cash out all that green, right?. Now let’s say the exact
day after the internet collapsed, you decide this is the day you cash
out that green, what do you see? A long line standing in front of a
closed down bank. I’ll let you think about the rest.
8: Unemployment
Food manufacturers are not the only ones who rely so heavily on the
internet. Think about all these big companies that rely on the internet
for most of their job. As soon the internet crumbles, they crumble as
well, and as soon as they crumble, hundreds and thousands of millions of
people all fired and left unemployed.
7: Harder Communication
Ok, this one’s not so much of a big surprise, communication on the
whole relies heavily on the internet. Without internet powered
communication such as email, video calling and so on, we will all have
to go back to communication of the old days. We are going to have to go
back to communicating by sending letters and other means.
6: Harder Shopping
If you have never shopped for something online at least once, then
you have LITERALLY been living under a rock Mr Patrick. Now i am not
counting the people who don’t have computers or internet but if you are
reading this article right now and you haven’t shopped for anything
online, then it’s true you really have been living under a rock. People
that have done that know how much internet is needed for this, from
placing the order to tracking the shipping, internet is used for almost
half of the process.
5: Chaos In Transportation
Not many of you reading this right now, right here would know this
but traffic lights, yes, traffic lights use internet, the thing is
traffic lights use the internet to get updates on the traffic, so that
means if the internet were to collapse the traffic lights would either
keep going except send the wrong signals or the trafic lights will stop
completely all around the world, hard to tell what would really happen
4: Harder Research
We may not know how important this one is now but once and more
importantly if the internet were to for some reason collapse in order to
do research you need to go through hundreds and maybe even thousands of
books in a library to find out that specific information. Ever since
the internet came alive, everything is available just one click away.
Right now that we have internet available all we have to do to get some
form of information is “Google It”.
3: Entertainment
Probably going to be a big problem for a whole lot of people. From
watching your favorite videos to listening songs, playing games,
chatting with your friends, watching movies and so on have all been
possible due to the internet. Entertainment has proven to be one of the
most important uses of internet.
2: Airport Chaos
Although this one’s pretty obvious, you probably never thought about
it before. Since the birth of the internet, it became easier to set
appointments for various activities. One of the most important
activities were booking flight appointments. Who knows how the airline
industry would function at all without the internet.
1: Job Search
Now this one is very important. In addition to unemployment, where
are you to find a job without having the internet. With the use of the
internet, this has become an easier task. There are endless amount of
websites on the internet that feature in this category. Job search is
easier now, all thanks to internet.
A long time ago, one would have never predicted the size and impact
the Internet has made on our planet. Now, with every kind of service
including government, healthcare, commerce and financial services
brokered through connected devices, the stakes are much higher. Forces
like cyber terrorism, government corruption and lack of infrastructure
resources threaten the fragile digital ties that connect our world. We
so often take the internet for granted, when slow website load times
lead us to abandon a specific website or maybe even walk away just to
return to the Internet as we know it later that day. We are just left to
wonder: What impact does global connectivity really have on our daily
lives and the economy as a whole? What could happen if we’re left in the
metaphorical darkness of not having the internet with us.
Although we don’t know exactly what would happen if global
connectivity or should I say, “The Internet” were to shut down we do
know it is being heavily threatened. Both physical and cyber-warfare
threatens global connectivity in specific ways. Physical degradation of
undersea and land-based cables can prevent regions from getting Internet
service. Government-ordered shutdowns, as we saw in Iraq during the
summer of 2014, are another common occurrence in areas threatened by
violence and terrorism. In some cases, social media services like
Twitter and Facebook are being temporarily shuttered during times of
unrest. Similarly, anonymous distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attacks and cyber security breaches happen on a near-hourly basis,
occasionally on a massive scale.
Life without the internet, how would that really be? It would be
exactly as it was before the World Wide Web was so popular. You had to
go to the library for any info. You had to look into white/yellow pages
books for telephones. You had to ask for information, or order things by
telephone. To communicate, fastest way was by telephone, which was
expensive to talk by long distance. Or, if you could wait, you could
write letters, and send physical photographs by normal mail, which would
take weeks or more. If something was urgent and did not have a
telephone, you had to send a telegram. Most everything else was done
personally by going physically. And that’s it. The internet has
accelerated our communications and the distribution of information.
Information did exist, but it was a lot more harder to get it.
Above all we have to remember we got to where we are today without
the Internet. The Internet was a technological advancement that excelled
us into the 21st century and changed the way we socialized, did
business and purchased goods. It paved the way to the future and still
has many exciting advancements ahead of it’s self. Witnessing the loss
of the Internet is probably very unlikely, but either way I’m quite sure
as a human race we’d adapt and persevere as we have done for thousands
of years. Those who grew up with the Internet well established around
them simply can’t comprehend life without it. There are however many of
us who lived life before it’s time and have experienced a life without
the Internet.
Do you think you can live without the internet?
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