What would happen if the internet broke down?

[Accy cyclist]

Sports Direct would probably go bust,so some good would come out of it.

 

[Drago]

All the smart phone users would die as their necks snap while trying to look ahead for the first time in years.

 

[DRHysted]

Many years ago when changing telephone supplier it all went wrong and I lost internet for 3 weeks. It was quite interesting especially when contacting companies and being told to “check the website”. Worryingly one of the companies was the one I was trying to get to supply my phone and Internet.

 

[SteveF]

I'd actually have to walk to the thermostat to manage the temperature, hot water etc.... the horror

 

[Tanis8472]

A lot more pregnancies

 

[classic33]

Motor traffic at a standstill, fewer ships sailing(the old navigation system turned off in 2012), older smaller aircraft in use. Fewer flights.

No ATM's or card payments. Handling "dirty money" that someone else may have touched. People moaning about having to stand in queues and wait. No working from home, so you'd have to go to work. A days actual work 'd kill many.

 

[PeteXXX]

I stayed at Pen Y Pass YHA a short while ago.. The horror on some visitors faces when they noticed that there was no phone signal!! Not even enough to send a text!
Digital detox time

 

[nickyboy]

I stayed at a hotel last week and, in the basement gym, there was no wifi and no phone signal.

In a way it was lovely to have an hour without the phone chirping and dinging (my business is largely run off my smarthphone). But when I left the gym and climbed the stairs the phone went bonkers with various message, email, text alerts

 

[rich p]

Who was it that said the nearest they came to a camping holiday was staying in a hotel without wifi.
probably @theclaud or @Marmion

 

[Tim Hall]

I'd have to read a book.

A sudden vision of Mr Heslop in Porridge has fluttered, unbidden, into my mind. Tell me @Drago , this book you'll have to read, is it green?

 

[Levo-Lon]

For most I'd think it would be the end of the world.

However if you Holliday in nth Wales you wont have a problem with it not being there.

 

[smutchin]

I couldn't do my job for a start

Same here.

My job did exist in the pre-internet days but modern communications technology has led to the dismantling of all the infrastructure that made it possible, and it would be unfeasibly costly to reinstate it. We're not even office-based any more, but all working from home and relying on internet messaging services for everyday communication. In the past we would have just shouted at each other across the room.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Same here.

My job did exist in the pre-internet days but modern communications technology has led to the dismantling of all the infrastructure that made it possible, and it would be unfeasibly costly to reinstate it. We're not even office-based any more, but all working from home and relying on internet messaging services for everyday communication. In the past we would have just shouted at each other across the room.

That's the rub now, it's woven into All our lives , work rest and play

 

[raleighnut]

I 'lost' internet access after some fool drove into the BT cabinet, took a week to get reconnected and I've still not caught up with Cyclechat.

 

[PeteXXX]

I stayed at a hotel last week and, in the basement gym, there was no wifi and no phone signal.

In a way it was lovely to have an hour without the phone chirping and dinging (my business is largely run off my smarthphone). But when I left the gym and climbed the stairs the phone went bonkers with various message, email, text alerts

If t'internet was broken though, there'd be no messages to receive!