Asked Jan 30 in Computers & Internet by okiaso.
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A global collapse of the Internet would have circumstances far greater than driving your local IT professional nuts.
The Internet is robust. It's not dependent upon a single machine or cable. It's a network made up of other computer networks. It spans the globe. Connections cross over continents, under oceans and through space via satellites. And as the Internet has grown, so has our dependence upon it.
Connections across the Internet are flexible. When you use your computer to contact another machine on the Internet, the data could cross one of millions of pathways. Whenever you download a file, the file comes to your machine in electronic data packets that travel across the Internet. The packets don't all take the same path -- the traffic routes are dynamic. If a particular connection is damaged or unresponsive, the data can follow a different path to reach your machine.
This makes the Internet a reliable communications resource. Even if an entire section of the Internet were to go offline in the wake of a natural disaster or a nuclear attack, other sections could remain functional. While any data stored on machines that were hit by the disaster might be lost, the Internet itself would remain.
It's almost impossible to imagine a set of circumstances that could cause the Internet to collapse. It would require destruction on such a widespread scale that the loss of the Internet would probably be the least of our worries.
But what if the Internet did collapse? How would that affect us? Would life change drastically or would we quickly adjust, relying on older means of
communication?
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I'd kill myself!

to be sincere I will be one the most boring soul because I spend most of my time on Internet when am back from work

MrFlavvor:
I'd kill myself!

For real?

Lyf wil simply move on...

ammyluv2002:
For real?

yes,for real

We'll go back to d days of tales by the moonlight and secret of the sand... d good ol' days

Ha! Twill b very difficult. Worse than b4 we had internet.

What will happen?


Everything will happen

MrFlavvor:
I'd kill myself!

Take am easy... Really, we have invested most of our time and resources to the internet.

When NL was behaving one kind few days ago, i lost taste(yea, even chicken becomes tasteless wen i am in bad mood), not to talk of LINKEDIN,FB,twitter, ever smart GOOGLE . . INSHORT, AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE CHECKING THIS THREAD : SOME SCENARIOS ARE BETTER LEFT, UN-IMAGINED


i case my rest

Oh well, that would be like a dream come true! more like returning back to balance.

We were living before the internet came into existence, we don't need it now to survive.

YEAHHHHHH we are resetting the world to DEFAULT SETTING......

That will be cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Some people can never survive with out a daily dose of tweeter, FB, and Nairaland, while some have a brain backup on GOOGLE.
You Remove GOOGLE from their life, the remains is a ZOMBIE.

ZOMBIE: Brainless human carcass

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The internet collapses every now and then but we just dont notice it. The internet is built on the concept of redundant links. The protocol that governs the internet (BGP) is built to be slow so as to allow smooth and reliable convergence whenever there is a disruption.

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