What would you do if the Internet was shut-down - forever?!

[Jednopivo]

The very thought of no more internet frightens me to death but, seriously, how would we cope in life? In business? In education?

Could we recover as a world society ever again without it?

[Hannu]

Beginning of times was ARPANET and NFSNET. I remember those times when connect on modem to example "GamesBBS" before internet.
I dont know then bitcoin/altcoin miners are useless when internet shut down. Bitcoin is so widely in use, it value effects on example house prices, energy and everything else.

[CantIdentify]

I think considering how much we use internet now it'd be like the end of the world haha but i would totally freak out

[raisa99]

I will go for an adventure. I will definitely spent some time with nature 

[cloudproject]

i think that was oke for me, because i have living a year in the mountain without internet or anything just go with wild

[forklif]

not imagined before ..
maybe if there is no internet our insight will not be as wide as this, chances are all we can do is learn from nature.

[Gynjorn24]

if the internet shuts down, crypto shuts down. countries would be blind, banking would go back to scratch. we basically go back to the 70's or 60's. everything will crash, especially the economy.

[Jednopivo]

Beginning of times was ARPANET and NFSNET. I remember those times when connect on modem to example "GamesBBS" before internet.
I dont know then bitcoin/altcoin miners are useless when internet shut down. Bitcoin is so widely in use, it value effects on example house prices, energy and everything else.

I remember dial-up and that took forever! In fact, it was easier to look things up or phone a friend for the answer. We had a whiteboard in the apartment and we'd write our "things to Google" for when we actually got a connection! Fun times.
Well, I am glad we have internet - without it - no Bitcoin!

[agorkems]

Very interesting topic. Is there a possibility that it will ever happen? Of course if there is no internet there may be something revolutionary coming up and end the internet era. Though I couldn't imagine life without internet. It will take a long long time to get use to it and it is sad.

No Internet would mean no to many things and I really mean a lot of things.

[Hannu]

if the internet shuts down, crypto shuts down. countries would be blind, banking would go back to scratch. we basically go back to the 70's or 60's. everything will crash, especially the economy.

Yep, bitcoin ecosystem collapse totally, only whats left is bitcoin satellites in earth orbit.

[Jednopivo]

i think that was oke for me, because i have living a year in the mountain without internet or anything just go with wild

I lived in a jungle (for a week) and while the nature and scenery was out of this world; saw orangutans and had monkeys jumping on my terrace every morning, I was happy to have my internet back. I must admit though, I do still think about that place and how quiet and peaceful it was.

[lagoon88]

I think It would be very difficult for me, as internet is the source of income for me.

[Jednopivo]

Very interesting topic. Is there a possibility that it will ever happen? Of course if there is no internet there may be something revolutionary coming up and end the internet era. Though I couldn't imagine life without internet. It will take a long long time to get use to it and it is sad.

No Internet would mean no to many things and I really mean a lot of things.

I sincerely hope that it will never shut-down. But yeah, you never know, maybe there will be a new internet one day - something better ? I would like to see our privacy protected 100 per cent if there was a new internet. I know you can use a VPN to hide your identity and stuff, but your IP is logged by them (ok some providers say this isn't the case), but if you use the net - it's safe to say eyes are watching.

[ArkadiyDeliev]

I would probably resort to heavy drugs to ignore the pain of losing my bitcoins

[ahpkind]

I would then study hard..... Just to do something to make the internet launch up again. I can't live without it

[aussiesloth]

I think the obvious answer is... Go back to living how we were before the internet. Not much day-to-day life would actually change.  Access to information would revert back to books and encyclopaedia, entertainment would refocus on what was popular pre-internet.  Social contact would once again be letter writing and telephone.  The pace of life would slow down.

[SMAura]

I will go for an adventure. I will definitely spent some time with nature 

Imagine life without internet. I think we might just go back to what it was before internet comes. Playing outside greeting neighborhood in the morning and enjoying the nature. There's nothing to be afraid of if internet will shut down forever.

[Warbson]

The internet isn't just some switch that you can turn off. It's a network of hundreds of millions of devices and they are all interconnected in many different ways, so even if one router or hundreds failed, there would be plenty of other ways to get around it. It would require some malware that takes out thousands of routers/severs/hosts made by hundreds of different companies with millions of configurations which just isn't realistic.

[fitzzz]

go outside and explore. many things you can do with out internet

[chikacoin]

Then i will move into something else to make a living, probably into farming.