Would there be worldwide mayhem and confusion due to the disappearence of the greatest superhighway of information? Online companies negativily impacted, people angered, gamers pissed, relationships crashed, population productivity loss, personal pleasure missed?

I say we should try one day without the internet for the hell of it to see what happens.

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)

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The Massassi JO/JA Single Player contest info (I don't know why I have this still in my sig)

*slits wrists*

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Debating politics on the internet is about as useful and productive as shoving a broomstick up your *** .

http://turnofftheinternet.com

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq!

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/08/24/internetend.shtml

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What once was...
Snail racing: (500 posts per line) ---@%

Not this gamer. I've come to hate, loathe, and dispise online gaming recently. Everyone is a freaking moron and way to immature.

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Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
You told them all I was crazy,
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, God damn you.
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Frogblast the Vent-Core!

Anyone catch the irony here? But you are right.
I think thousands of forums goers and gamers, should probably keep cyanide tablets next to their PC's for just such an emergency.

well, it would definitely affect the lives of porn and warez conniseurs (sp?) ...



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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

Thank goodness I live in Mexico, no attacks here.

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"Computer are useless, all they can give you are answers"/Pablo Piacasso

*does the hippo*

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"Dalton, that pie just moved of it's own accord."

"You must be mistaken, Tess. A pie can't move."

BOOM!

I don't remember any major internet attacks in the US. Unless if viruses count.

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)

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The Massassi JO/JA Single Player contest info (I don't know why I have this still in my sig)

When you say "lose the internet" do you mean lose all computer networking, or just the internet as it currently exists? Even if all of the major backbones and nameservers were destroyed and it were impossible (for some reason) to rebuild them, we'd still end up forcing the phone system into a similar role just because the internet is a necessary and inevitable evolution of human communications.

If you want an immediate and obvious impact, you only need to look at the retail and financial sectors. The flow of money between bank accounts is almost entirely regulated by internet servers. This includes local debit and credit access, such as ATMs and in-store systems. Without the internet *or* modem access, everybody would have to go back to using those metal sliding things.

Actually I think I still have one of those kicking around somewhere.

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crap happens...

Massassi would be gone if that happened

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

If the internet suddenly went out, but nobody was there to discuss it on massassi, would it really have gone out?

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Sorry for the lousy English

That's today...

oh no, without the internet who will tell me im a noob, or judge any of my other skills based on poor gameplay! and without that who will talk in all caps and flame! a world without is not a world that i want to live in!!

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~~Because Eric does Rock Your World~~

It annoys my friend that even though I spend more time in front of the computer than she does, I can handle a day or two, or even a week without the internet a lot better than she can.

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And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon...
DSettahr's Homepage

You might have a problem if you boast that you can go without something for a week...

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<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?
<jipe> .. yes, Ubuu, we're racist commy nazi jews, and we hate male pattern baldness
<Professor`K> Sorry, but half-way through your logic, my head exploded

Mm, destroying the Aquinas router.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

Without the Internet, I'd probably just watch Band of Brothers 24/7.

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Debating politics on the internet is about as useful and productive as shoving a broomstick up your *** .

It would be as if millions of voices suddenly cried out and then were silenced all at once...

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[16:38] Correction: dick tracy was a real man
[16:38] happydud: Actually... He wasn't.
[19:08] Dormouse: hi, my name's happydud and i'm passive-aggress.. SHUTUP!! *stabs nearby orphan*
[You have gained 3 Dark Side Points]

<3

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What once was...
Snail racing: (500 posts per line) ---@%

i would cry

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*landfish 'splodes*
7 of 14

Well I hope it doesnt go out. I bought a Mozilla shirt and I would feel pretty silly walking around with a Mozilla shirt if the Internet was down.

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ZGPC

I guess I'd just spend A LOT more time playing the guitar and reading and would become a kickass guitar player with a degree in philosophy....I HATE THE INTERNET!!

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Yeah, you stay here and take life seriously. I'll go and have some fun.

that makes me a sad panda. :'-(

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~~Because Eric does Rock Your World~~

I've been thinking about this, and I think the most destructive attack that could take place in America and Western Europe would be an EMP bomb.

Several synchronised EMP attacks across the country would utterly cripple it. All electronic equipment would be destroyed, all computers would be useless, as would mobile phones. Communication would be limited to carrier pidgeons. The military would be crippled.
Electricity generators are rendered useless, so fridges and freezers and useless. Unloading food from cargo boats would be difficult.
There would be no street lights, no lights at all. At night, there'd be mass looting.
As food shortages become an issue, there'd mass rioting. A country is only three meals away from revolution.

Not only would there be huge civil disorder, but the country would be totally open to invasion too.


Makes you think how reliant western nations are on electronics.

Unfortunately, today is August 26, and ... Still waiting.

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Occassional dropper-inner. Following the rhythm, drunk by the music.

If the internet were gone, I would be watching programs on TNT and TBS more frequently.

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"I'm praying for mayhem, I'm praying for tidal waves, I wanna see the ground give way, I wanna watch it all go down..."

Without the internet, I'd sleep for a long, long time, until it came back online. Then it would just seem like a bad nightmare, right?

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crap happens...

Today is the day that there was supposedly going to be an attack on the internet... nothing yet...

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ZGPC

Well, at least this way you could afford to pay for food some day.

I can pay for it already, I barely eat so it's pretty cheap.

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Yeah, you stay here and take life seriously. I'll go and have some fun.

... I'd wait for it to turn back on.

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[="Rememeber that history isn't how the corporate controlled media made it look like. Read between the lines and free your mind. Evolution is the birth of equality and the anti-thesis to opression." - Immortal Technique=]

Massassian since: March 12, 2001

Well since our minds are plugged into it it'd be just like the Matrix surely?

We always theorise about this kid in the IT room at school being like that if the server goes down, such is his love for that particular room.

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Fire Pretty - Graz's Armoury - (That's my blog...)Choice language warning!

The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...)

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

How to keep an idiot busy: See below
How to keep an idiot busy: See above