Relating to the other "what if" threads.

Just how will the Inter net dependant citizens survive ?

What's the back up plan when the WWW. Is crashed and in Rubble.

Even with c.b. radio adding F.M. , that's hardly a substitute.

First and foremost, I won't be paying my bills! All bill paying is done online these days, but if it's a SHTF situation, I highly doubt that I will care.

All other uses of the interwebz for me is optional, and if I lose them... who cares?

I am old, the internet is gone, so what?

I have food, shelter, and water.

I don't need to be entertained.

I even have some books.

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
First and foremost, I won't be paying my bills! All bill paying is done online these days, but if it's a SHTF situation, I highly doubt that I will care.

All other uses of the interwebz for me is optional, and if I lose them... who cares?

Exactly. I'll miss it, but I'll manage. Catch up on my reading...

Same way I lived without it before it existed.

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Originally posted by pace40:
Same way I lived without it before it existed.

I'm in my 30s, but agree.
It's a convenience & a good way to keep in touch with 80k invisible friends, but other than my job [IT], and things like bill pay. I'd manage.

Like anything else, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Unfortunately, things like electricity, Internet, Cell Communication are so important that crippling those ~ an enemy could defeat someone faster than conventional arms.

The need have alternatives is imperative.
Good Security and good habits as well.

I remember the good old days of no cell, no internet >>> fondly .... and I am in that business today.

I personally wouldn't miss the internet, and I think a lot of folks my age wouldn't either because we lived most of our lives without it. But modern society would come to a screeching halt, it would be disastrous. Hell, if even just cell phones disappeared, it would fuck up our tech heavy world, and that is a very sad commentary on where we are as a society.

We would find out for sure just how much of everything we take for granted needs the internet to work.

I don't think anyone would enjoy it. Even the Amish use smartphones, so that seems telling.

They make these things called "books." There is a surprising amount of useful information in them, and they work without electricity!

I have been saying for awhile now that if people's phones all of a sudden went dark that would cause 80% of the population to jump off the cliff in less than a week.

The only negative thing would be paying bills. Other than that I think I would be way more productive. The internet is a massive time sucker.

I'd get a land line and make many, many more phone calls in lieu of e-mail and/or write letters. And buy a butt-load of stamps to send off those letters and to pay my bills.

How will I look on youtube for how to build a fire?

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All other uses of the interwebz for me is optional, and if I lose them... who cares?

I've thought about this... and I've concluded that if everyone else has internet, I want internet. But, if no one else has internet, I wouldn't really care. Except for keeping up with you, my Sigforum buddies.

Since most of my work is on-line these days, it would be an adjustment to going back to paper though.
But it would be a boom for the post office... think of all the stamps I would buy!

What percentage of America's employed people are dependant on the WWW?

How many will automatically be unemployed?

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
I'd get a land line ...

If you still could.

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Originally posted by bendable:
What percentage of America's employed people are dependant on the WWW?

Nit: "WWW" ≠ Internet.

The Internet (Interconnected network) is the WAN (Wide Area Network) that connects servers, clients, networking gear, and LANs (Local Area Networks) throughout the world. The WWW (World-Wide Web, or web servers and clients) is simply one of the many networking protocols that runs over the Internet.

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Originally posted by bendable:
How many will automatically be unemployed?

Hard to say. Estimates of how many people work remotely are all over the map. It varies greatly by country and by job. E.g.: Manual labor: Hardly at all. High-tech: Quite a few. If I was forced to put a number on it I'm going to guess about ±20%?

As an I.T. Admin I estimated I could do roughly 80% of my job remotely. The other 20% required on-site hands-on work.

Interestingly: That ratio didn't change much over the years, because I always insisted all of my server and network gear could be managed via CLI (Command Line Interface, aka: a dumb terminals). So if network connectivity failed: Dial-up modem access to the rescue.

I only finally decommissioned all the modems at work and at home in about... I'm gonna say 2015 or so? Two years before I retired and about the time I set my retirement date.

So, up until about 2015 or so I still could've done ±80% of my job from home, as long as the legacy phone system was extant.

I'll be regularly checking in on the SigForum GMRS network.

For the latest news on who bought a 'new' truck, who likes cat photos, and whose package hasn't been delivered.

And I'll still be buying ammo.

Well, I started printing out hard copy of all the cat pichurz a couple TEOTWAWKI topics back.

I am not riding this shitstorm out without some modicum of comfort.

Well, I would miss SIGforum. I also wouldn’t know much of current events until news papers ramped up. Even then, I wouldn’t trust what I’m reading. I suppose I would be back to writing letters, which is to say not communicating much at all with anyone. Don’t know how I’d find gun stuff.