If The Internet Collapsed.

The internet collapsing is a real possibility if the earth was subjected to a massive solar flare.

The last real big one occurred back in 1859 which knocked out telegraph lines throughout the world. If that happened today the world would be in virtual chaos.

 

you and i would not be on it if it did not exist. i'm not here to communicate in the usual sense.
social networking is not how i see the internet at all.
it is pictures of trains in places i will almost certainly never be able to visit or ride them.
it is how to make things. the free exchange of information that is useful to the kinds of things i create.

no internet? i go back to making imaginary train layouts with pencil, paper and templates.
well if i still have computer(s), i still make my 3d models and animate them,
just no way to give them to everyone else to see if they want to.

(if the world no longer has pencils and paper, there's still sticks and wet sand)

i'm more interested in a 3d printer or desktop milling machine, then cb or ham radio.
(though i have to admit anymore most of what i do is get on here and bullshit).

 

that's not exactly how it works.

a solar flare, or other large electro-magnetic event, creates caries with it, is, a large magnetic field.

any wire or other conductor, capable of carrying an electric current,
acts like the secondary of a transformer when a magnetic field passes through it.

communication tech, now as then, uses mostly relatively low amounts of power,
so equipment connected to it,
needs to be sensitive enough to read those low amounts of power,
so any surge of excessive current, is, granted,
likely to cause damage to physical components.

this does NOT however, make it impossible to replace those damaged components.

only a matter of making new ones or finding ones that happened to have been shielded from it by not having been connected to anything.

however many days, weeks or months it might take to do so,
it is only a matter of finite time before such repairs and replacements can be made.

only if you wipe out the entire technology base, the entire culture of creating technologies,
and even then, the ability to create electrically conductive wires, and wind them into coils,
that can both generate and 'read' magnetic fields, is unlikely to be lost, even at relatively primative levels.

 

Its tomorrow, Internet didnt collapse

 

I was talking to a coworker the other day, and I forget how it came up, but she mentioned she knew someone who worked as a travel agent.

I honestly didn't know that was still a thing.

 

The internet will never collapse for we are already hive mind. At this point the internet only shields us from knowing just how complete we have become. Just try to get an erection without an internet connection, I contest thee.

 

...It'd be a money loss for bills
...It'd be a friend connection loss on hf
...It'd be a loss of on-line education classes
...It'd cost me more in repairs by shops

There's probably a few more, but these are the important ones.

 

For people who have trouble googling "cheap flights to...."

 

Life wasn't any better or worse before the internet. Just profoundly different. I do agree it is a terrific thing. I just question how it is replacing real life contact between people. A recent study suggested that young people are experiencing a greater degree of real loneliness than older generations, and that loneliness itself actually contributes to physical ill-health.

 

See, that's the thing. In a place like this, we're using it to connect with people we'd otherwise never know. And that's awesome.

But I agree that young people are using it to replace face-to-face interaction with peers who live in their own communities. That, to me, is weird. It's like, we're using our devices to recreate interpersonal communication while going out of our ways to avoid the real thing. It's bizarre.

 

If the internet collapsed life would actually have a damn good chance of being the best I've ever seen it. After the chaos & mass hysteria of course

 

We could replace it with a new internet

 

Did you know that Kim.Com guy wants to set up an alternate internet without ISP addresses. Would that be a good thing or not?

 

I have no idea what you just said

 

To what end? Anonymity?

 

Yes. Whether he will do it or be allowed to do it I don't know.

 

Sounds interesting. Imma google this shit.

Teach me, O Wise Google
Lend me They Wisdom
And

Wtf am I doing? Dead sober acting like that. Jesus.

 

Even if I weren't sober I doubt I'd Google it and I'm barely ever sober these days

 

I see you rockin that pbr!

 

The thing with the Internet is it can't really be further perfected. It's almost reached it's apotheosis. It can be made a little smarter I guess, and a little faster, but both of those categories have almost eclipsed the general needs of the average consumer. I feel this way about a lot of technology. Like cars, cellphones and all the other stuff they come out with to entertain the folks.