We all may not want to admit it but without the internet, our lives
will collapse. What do i mean? There are things that without the
internet would be completely useless, things that we may have taken for
granted because we use them everyday, things that we often use then one
day (by reading this amazingly written article) we just found out that
it uses internet. I am here to shine a light on all these everyday
objects we don't care about just because we don't know how much we would
actually need it if they were for some reason gone. Internet is today
one of the most important part of our everyday lives. There are a large
number of things that can be done with the use of the internet and so it
is very important. Today internet is used for different purposes
depending upon the requirement. It is amazing how useful the internet is
and yet most people are unaware of the numerous benefits of the
internet. The internet is useful in each and every field. You can use
it for education, share market, business and much more. You can also use
it for sports, news update, mobile themes, wallpapers, video's,
softwares and so on. The internet is very useful, provided you use it
correctly. It helps you to stay connected with the world. you can keep
the current records of the whole world at your fingertips.
How
exactly the Internet Plug could ever get pulled is a complicated
question, due to the expansive infrastructure that makes up the
Internet. It would probably require the shutting down of every server
and local DNS around the world. Some people have spoken about a major
virus infection spreading through all servers and computers, rendering
them / the Internet in a paralyzed state. There is also another wild
theory where by the wind generated by huge solar flares will disrupt
anything that carries current, from telegraph wires, anything metal,
computers, servers etc. You can read about this theory if you Google
"Carrington Event of 1959" This theory is said to be predicted by Nasa.
What
would life be like without the World Wide Web. An interesting question
in an age where the Internet plays an integral part of everyday life,
business and society! So what are the implications of a life without the
internet? Well firstly we should ask the question in a more specific
circumstance. What would life be like with no Internet if the 'plug' was
pulled today? We'll be looking at this topic from this angle, rather
than trying to imagine the world without the Internet had it never been
invented. Why? Because the difference of life without the internet ever
invented and life with internet shut down today is incredibly and
surprisingly massive.
10: No More Food In Stores
When i say
no more food, i don't mean that there is going to be absolutely no more
food existing on the earth. I mean there will be no more food or snacks
available in any store. The reason for this is that many food
manufacturers rely heavily on the internet for many things from ordering
supplies to shipping and so on.
9: No Access To Money
Think
for a moment about the topic of this article, now think about all that
hard earned money you got, stored inside your bank account. Can't wait
to cash out all that green, right?. Now let's say the exact day after
the internet collapsed, you decide this is the day you cash out that
green, what do you see? A long line standing in front of a closed down
bank. I'll let you think about the rest.
8: Unemployment
Food
manufacturers are not the only ones who rely so heavily on the
internet. Think about all these big companies that rely on the internet
for most of their job. As soon the internet crumbles, they crumble as
well, and as soon as they crumble, hundreds and thousands of millions of
people all fired and left unemployed.
7: Harder Communication
Ok,
this one's not so much of a big surprise, communication on the whole
relies heavily on the internet. Without internet powered communication
such as email, video calling and so on, we will all have to go back to
communication of the old days. We are going to have to go back to
communicating by sending letters and other means.
6: Harder Shopping
If
you have never shopped for something online at least once, then you
have LITERALLY been living under a rock Mr Patrick. Now i am not
counting the people who don't have computers or internet but if you are
reading this article right now and you haven't shopped for anything
online, then it's true you really have been living under a rock. People
that have done that know how much internet is needed for this, from
placing the order to tracking the shipping, internet is used for almost
half of the process.
5: Chaos In Transportation
Not many of
you reading this right now, right here would know this but traffic
lights, yes, traffic lights use internet, the thing is traffic lights
use the internet to get updates on the traffic, so that means if the
internet were to collapse the traffic lights would either keep going
except send the wrong signals or the trafic lights will stop completely
all around the world, hard to tell what would really happen
4: Harder Research
We
may not know how important this one is now but once and more
importantly if the internet were to for some reason collapse in order to
do research you need to go through hundreds and maybe even thousands of
books in a library to find out that specific information. Ever since
the internet came alive, everything is available just one click away.
Right now that we have internet available all we have to do to get some
form of information is "Google It".
3: Entertainment
Probably
going to be a big problem for a whole lot of people. From watching your
favorite videos to listening songs, playing games, chatting with your
friends, watching movies and so on have all been possible due to the
internet. Entertainment has proven to be one of the most important uses
of internet.
2: Airport Chaos
Although this one's pretty
obvious, you probably never thought about it before. Since the birth of
the internet, it became easier to set appointments for various
activities. One of the most important activities were booking flight
appointments. Who knows how the airline industry would function at all
without the internet.
1: Job Search
Now this one is very
important. In addition to unemployment, where are you to find a job
without having the internet. With the use of the internet, this has
become an easier task. There are endless amount of websites on the
internet that feature in this category. Job search is easier now, all
thanks to internet.
A long time ago, one would have never
predicted the size and impact the Internet has made on our planet. Now,
with every kind of service including government, healthcare, commerce
and financial services brokered through connected devices, the stakes
are much higher. Forces like cyber terrorism, government corruption and
lack of infrastructure resources threaten the fragile digital ties that
connect our world. We so often take the internet for granted, when slow
website load times lead us to abandon a specific website or maybe even
walk away just to return to the Internet as we know it later that day.
We are just left to wonder: What impact does global connectivity really
have on our daily lives and the economy as a whole? What could happen if
we’re left in the metaphorical darkness of not having the internet with
us.
Although we don’t know exactly what would happen if global
connectivity or should I say, “The Internet” were to shut down we do
know it is being heavily threatened. Both physical and cyber-warfare
threatens global connectivity in specific ways. Physical degradation of
undersea and land-based cables can prevent regions from getting Internet
service. Government-ordered shutdowns, as we saw in Iraq during the
summer of 2014, are another common occurrence in areas threatened by
violence and terrorism. In some cases, social media services like
Twitter and Facebook are being temporarily shuttered during times of
unrest. Similarly, anonymous distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attacks and cyber security breaches happen on a near-hourly basis,
occasionally on a massive scale.
Life without the internet, how
would that really be? It would be exactly as it was before the World
Wide Web was so popular. You had to go to the library for any info. You
had to look into white/yellow pages books for telephones. You had to ask
for information, or order things by telephone. To communicate, fastest
way was by telephone, which was expensive to talk by long distance. Or,
if you could wait, you could write letters, and send physical
photographs by normal mail, which would take weeks or more. If something
was urgent and did not have a telephone, you had to send a telegram.
Most everything else was done personally by going physically. And that’s
it. The internet has accelerated our communications and the
distribution of information. Information did exist, but it was a lot
more harder to get it.
Above all we have to remember we got to
where we are today without the Internet. The Internet was a
technological advancement that excelled us into the 21st century and
changed the way we socialized, did business and purchased goods. It
paved the way to the future and still has many exciting advancements
ahead of it's self. Witnessing the loss of the Internet is probably very
unlikely, but either way I'm quite sure as a human race we'd adapt and
persevere as we have done for thousands of years. Those who grew up with
the Internet well established around them simply can't comprehend life
without it. There are however many of us who lived life before it's time
and have experienced a life without the Internet. For more interesting
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