If the internet went down today, would you be able to survive?

Dallas, Texas
October 21, 2017 2:20pm CST
There are actually ways to survive if the global communications network infrastructure went suddenly down. I know it may not happen any time soon but as long as we live in an age of the internet and it looks like we will for a very long time, there are solar flares that potentially have enough strength to black out the internet grid and put us back into the stone age. Well, I for one would have a Tylenol moment if this were to happen today. It would be tons worse than just my PC going to Blue Screen from a faulty hardware device or software glitch. Would you be able to survive if the world wide web crashed?
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@dodo19 (47034)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
21 Oct 17
I'd probably have a hard time at first, but would get used to it, after some time. I'd find other ways to keep myself busy, or get in touch with people, and such.
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@dodo19 (47034)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
21 Oct 17
@lookatdesktop It can definitely be hard to have friends outside of the internet. It get tricky.
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• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
Having friends outside the world wide web of things is still optional only mostly it is by phone. Almost the same thing. People don't visit as much any more. I have to offer dinner and a movie to get people over our house sometimes.
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• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
@dodo19 , Well, in the world outside the internet you have to feed the trolls literally.
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
21 Oct 17
That is what we get for becoming entirely too dependent (either voluntary or forced) on the internet and computer systems. We freak when electricity goes out.
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• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
I need a power backup ASAP. , They say most information is digitally stored in an archive but what if it all went black? There are medical records and millions of other records on digital memory in the cloud, and if there is no hard copy of any of it, puff, it all goes away in a second.
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• Williamsburg, Virginia
22 Oct 17
In my childrens school, especially the high school, they have them always working on electronics. When you try to show them another way to get info they freak out. The schools are not doing them any good by keeping them on electronics. When us parents try to keep things grounded, they get so upset.
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• Dallas, Texas
22 Oct 17
@taramarie39 , But you know what is important and I know you are working hard to help let them understand the importance of doing things in more than just electronics but by the books, old school style. It is always good to have extra pads of paper and plenty of pencils and ball point pens handy.
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@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
21 Oct 17
For the human body, it's possible--especially when pumped with enough adrenaline while it's relearning how to survive like the stone age people did. For me who relies on the internet to make money, I'd be hard-pressed in getting work that fits my skills but I trust my brain enough to get me a respectable job with a reasonable time to learn a new skill but a part of me would just die because I want to read something new every single day. Sure the books in my house are enough materials to last me a year. I can even re-read them after a year. But a year after that, I would be very bored, I guess.
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• Davao, Philippines
21 Oct 17
@lookatdesktop True. There's that for some people. But here, where I'm from--which is a not so developed area like the US--we can always go back to the very basic of things. Before moving to the city, my grandfather has already been a farmer until he departed this world. We could always go back to that land he worked for years if we have to and learn to live a farmer's life. Else, I can be like my grandmothers (be in the wet market and hawk veggies or learn dressmaking). Sure there's more manual labor when technology suddenly vanishes but if there's one thing I know about humans is that when there's something that we truly want to do, no matter the obstacles, we would always find the inner strength to overcome those obstacles. Be it on working to survive to enjoying an hour reading books.
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• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
@SinfulRose Books will always be one of my favorite things.
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• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
I would be lucky to have time to read the books in my small collection even.
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• Williamsburg, Virginia
21 Oct 17
It would be hard for the children to adjust but they would eventually. It would be ok,we are prepared as far as food goes.
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• Williamsburg, Virginia
22 Oct 17
@lookatdesktop I completely agree. Which reminds me. I need to go to the store today. I have to pick up batteries.
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• Dallas, Texas
22 Oct 17
@taramarie39 , Good luck getting a good bargain on those batteries.
• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
Food storage should be a top priority as well as basic water and medicine supplies and extra clothing and emergency medical supplies and some basic tools, radio communications device like CB radio and flashlights and some hand tools and extra batteries and some kind of reading material. I think more people are thinking along these lines because we are living in a volatile world now and we should expect the unexpected. Better to be over prepared than regretting it at the last moment.
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@amadeo (111956)
• United States
21 Oct 17
I did it today.Could care less.Wether it is up and down.I do not depend on them.No thank you. I from old school
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@amadeo (111956)
• United States
21 Oct 17
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• Dallas, Texas
21 Oct 17
Glad to hear that.