The thought hit me last night between sips of my scrumptious Bulalo soup and Sago’t Gulaman during dinner: What if the Internet died? What if it totally stops working and disappears from the face of the Earth? Is that even remotely possible? The answer: yes. Highly improbable, but not impossible. In the event that the Internet does end, the world as we know may change but not before these things can happen:
- Online sellers will have to peddle on the streets
- Hosting will be a gig and a chore rather than a service
- Domain registrations will rightfully go back to the Registry of Deeds
- Big halls like the World Trade Center will forever be booked and become one big chat room, divided into zones/categories
- No more AdSense earnings
- No more spam
- No more blogger events
- Hits will be painful
- SEO guys will be jobless
- Forum moderators will have to use mics to be effective
- Scammers will be con men in trench coats in dark alleys or in corporate weare in malls doing MLM
- Weather/torrent/RSS news feed addicts will convulse in withdrawal
- _________ (fill in the blank with your take, share them in the comment section)
- and my lame list could go on and on and on…
Cracked.com, however, egged its readers to come up with their take on “The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today).” As expected, submissions of Photoshopped images came in droves. From the hundreds, they narrowed the best down to 20. #1 is HUHLOLZ, trust me!
In a totally unrelated note, here, have a radio transmitter.
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11 November 2009 at 1:17 pm
this is a thought-provoking post. but then again, i simply go back to the good old days (your HS generation has also experienced) when living without the internet is very live-able. :p
11 November 2009 at 4:49 pm
Good times!!! Hahaha. Then again, after we have become sort of dependent on the Interwebs, part of our identity is already in here: protfolio, contacts, means of keeping in touch, means of livelihood, source of knowledge, that kind of stuff. It dying is a morbid thought, srsly.
11 November 2009 at 9:49 pm
and yeah. i can’t imagine office work with… urgh… TYPEWRITERS!