Massassi Forums Logo

This is the static archive of the Massassi Forums. The forums are closed indefinitely. Thanks for all the memories!

You can also download Super Old Archived Message Boards from when Massassi first started.

"View" counts are as of the day the forums were archived, and will no longer increase.

☖ Forums → Discussion Forum → The Internet will collapse in 2006
The Internet will collapse in 2006
2004-11-09, 4:16 AM #1
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041018-4318.html

What will you do if the Internet collapses? It'll be like the early 90s again! People will actually need to know things because they can't just Google for them. Porn will have to be retrieved from magazine stands. A lot of people, myself included, will have to revert to banking at the offices and ATMs. No more Massassi, either!
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2004-11-09, 4:26 AM #2
Put my fingers in my ears and go "LALALALALALALA"

IF it happens, we start over - and do things properly.
2004-11-09, 4:32 AM #3
About damn time.
SnailIracing:n(500tpostshpereline)pants
-----------------------------@%
2004-11-09, 6:40 AM #4
No... that's... my entire life... If the internet died, I would actually have to leave my room and do crazy things like talk to people.
Stuff
2004-11-09, 7:24 AM #5
Quote:
Originally posted by kyle90
No... that's... my entire life... If the internet died, I would actually have to leave my room and do crazy things like talk to people.


Arrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!

*runs off*
"Whats that for?" "Thats the machine that goes 'ping'" PING!
Q. How many testers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. We just noticed the room was dark; we don't actually fix the problems.
MCMF forever.
2004-11-09, 8:59 AM #6
A world without massassi. Is that possible?
SpriteMod (JO 2003) Roger Wilco Skin

Snail racing: (500 posts per line) ---@%
2004-11-09, 9:00 AM #7
I'd better hurry up and graduate..I don't like looking crap up in books. :p
woot!
2004-11-09, 9:01 AM #8
I'd loose my job!
Sorry for the lousy German
2004-11-09, 9:04 AM #9
It's about time this crap ended. Now we can restart everything from the very base up make it so secure no hacker would dare even try. It would be like a utopia internet socity.
2004-11-09, 9:06 AM #10
If it happed, we better have massassi back-uped up on a few dozen huge discs
nope.
2004-11-09, 9:07 AM #11
You remind me when internet is collapsing, and we are all gathered in #massassi

When only I can speak.

You will hear.

....the net's going...the net's going black.... ...the Internet Protocol...hear the howling?... ...the system is going down, all across the globe... ...no more infolinks, transmissions of any kind...we'll start again, live in villages...if you receive this, if you survive, then find us...find us...

:p
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2004-11-09, 9:08 AM #12
Now is this collapse going to happen before or after the Y2K bug destroys all life on earth?
2004-11-09, 9:35 AM #13
i could swear i've read stuff about him before.
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2004-11-09, 9:41 AM #14
Quote:
Originally posted by Wuss
Now is this collapse going to happen before or after the Y2K bug destroys all life on earth?


<3

2004-11-09, 10:04 AM #15
Quote:
Originally posted by Wuss
Now is this collapse going to happen before or after the Y2K bug destroys all life on earth?

You must've stolen that question from me.
Wake up, George Lucas... The Matrix has you...
2004-11-09, 11:07 AM #16
What about some routers that work as firewalls...but eh it won't keep the spyware away...
DEFINITION OF ZERO POINT ENERGY
The amount of vibrational energy associated with matter, as the parameters defining that matter decline to zero.
2004-11-09, 11:09 AM #17
I really do not think the whole of the internet will collapse in a digital firey blaze.

But if so, wouldn't surprise me. Humanity thrives on destroying its own creations.
Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.
2004-11-09, 11:16 AM #18
It's ok people. Georg Bush has been working on some other internets. They should be fine.
Pissed Off?
2004-11-09, 11:34 AM #19
Zing.
2004-11-09, 1:33 PM #20
Quote:
Originally posted by FastGamerr
[B....the net's going...the net's going black.... ...the Internet Protocol...hear the howling?... ...the system is going down, all across the globe... ...no more infolinks, transmissions of any kind...we'll start again, live in villages...if you receive this, if you survive, then find us...find us...

[/B]


Is that from something?

Oh, and I'd either work to recreate it better than before, or die.
My Parkour blog
My Twitter. Follow me!
2004-11-09, 1:40 PM #21
Doesn't Longhorn come out in 2006?
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2004-11-09, 1:46 PM #22
You can't restart it. It'll never be the same. Information was once shared freely, now it's a capitalist cesspool. If they ever try to rebuild it securely, someone, somewhere, would have to organize it and it would become like every restricted system. It will all break, sooner or later. Artificial constructs never last.
"When it's time for this planet to die, you'll understand that you know absolutely nothing." — Bugenhagen
2004-11-09, 4:57 PM #23
it would be hard to "destroy" the internet for good.... since internet doesnt really exist.... the internet isnt this strange dimention that we can tap into.... its just data streaming at high speed via wires, cables, or radeo transmissions.... only way to destroy internet is to place a magnet on every server, mainframe, laptop, and desktop in the world to destroy the internet fully
I can't wait for the day schools get the money they need, and the military has to hold bake sales to afford bombs.
2004-11-09, 5:13 PM #24
remind me to turn Steam onto "Offline mode" on December 31 2005.
He's Watching you
…../|,-‘`¯¯`\(o)_\,----,,,_………
…( `\(o),,_/` ¯ : o : : : o`-, ….
2004-11-09, 6:06 PM #25
"Hey, have you ever done TCP/IP?"

"Yeah one night in college we did like ten hits at once through one of those gigabit bongs!"

Thought that was pretty funny.
MithShrike: First Mateneer
Pimpin' Yerba Mate Drinker
2004-11-09, 6:49 PM #26
Here's what we'll do...

We'll find ourselfs a temple in Southwestern China (virtually untouched by computers somewhat) and find a Temple much like the one on Yavin IV in SW: Episode IV. Then, we'll run around calling ourselfs the "Massassians", and form hunting parties and write in dirt a poll about politics and which game is better. After that, we'll figure out the bad guy's name from "Tron", and learn the ways of the Force before Exar Kun arrives and kills us all.

Anyone have a better plan? I thought not.
2004-11-09, 6:59 PM #27
Well, as long as we back up the ISb and get all the member's snail mail adresses, the NeS shall go on, so its all good :p
A Knight's Tail
Exile: A Tale of Light in Dark
The Never Ending Story²
"I consume the life essence itself!... Preferably medium rare" - Mauldis

-----@%
2004-11-09, 7:02 PM #28
Steam is skynet.

but you have to have it.

[edit] and this reminds me of Sealab. "Can anyone tell me what the internet was, and how it almost destroyed the world in the year 2007?"
Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....
2004-11-09, 7:16 PM #29
Quote:
Originally posted by Noble Outlaw
Well, as long as we back up the ISb and get all the member's snail mail adresses, the NeS shall go on, so its all good :p


Yes...yes...:D
The Plothole: a home for amateur, inclusive, collaborative stories
http://forums.theplothole.net
2004-11-09, 7:28 PM #30
I will jump up and down and watch tv:D
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
2004-11-10, 4:24 AM #31
I can picture the mail service driving insane from all the nes posts.
"NAILFACE" - spe
2004-11-10, 5:08 AM #32
Quote:
Originally posted by Seb
I can picture the mail service driving insane from all the nes posts.


Only if they read them ;) We're just enough to keep 'em in business, not make it hard for them :)
The Plothole: a home for amateur, inclusive, collaborative stories
http://forums.theplothole.net
2004-11-10, 6:25 AM #33
Quote:
Originally posted by happydud
Is that from something?

Oh, and I'd either work to recreate it better than before, or die.


Its what Tracer Tong says to JC Denton when he destroys Daedalus/Icarus/Helios/Page in one of the Deus Ex endings. Then theres the other two endings, one where you merge with the AI, and one where you kill Page but leave the facility intact, allowing the Illuminati to take over.


"Who are we? Who are we really?"

"We are the Illuminati, the invisible hand"

Did I get that right?

Oh yeah..

*runs off screaming*
"Whats that for?" "Thats the machine that goes 'ping'" PING!
Q. How many testers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. We just noticed the room was dark; we don't actually fix the problems.
MCMF forever.

↑ Up to the top!