| Tango01 | 28 Aug 2019 3:21 p.m. PST |
…Down All of a Sudden?. "A world in which the internet suddenly stops: surely the TV show's already in development. Sprawling cast, gorgeous visuals, tediously on-the-nose themes. Some handsome B-lister tearing around the country in pursuit of his wayward kids, or the shadowy sect that pulled the plug in the first place. A patch of prairie in Kansas with a weak but functional signal, people lining for miles to check texts, riots breaking out. Thankfully, we don't have to wait for this show to be shot and streamed to get a decent idea of what the internet apocalypse might look like: for this week's Giz Asks, we asked a number of experts to do the imagining for us…"
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| Mr Elmo | 28 Aug 2019 3:39 p.m. PST |
Does someone not understand the whole premise of the Internet? |
| Walking Sailor | 28 Aug 2019 4:16 p.m. PST |
I would get more work done, and maybe more painting too. |
| Stryderg | 28 Aug 2019 4:34 p.m. PST |
Probably 80% of the people using it don't know how it works or how it was started. Nor do they care, LOLZ! |
| Glengarry5 | 28 Aug 2019 5:00 p.m. PST |
People would have to start paying for their porn again. |
| whitphoto | 28 Aug 2019 5:25 p.m. PST |
People would have to start paying for their porn again.
Don't even joke about stuff like that man! |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 28 Aug 2019 5:41 p.m. PST |
yeah, man, that's scary. Or it's an opportunity. I think I have a VHS camera in my storage unit. Like the 70s again, baby! |
| Thresher01 | 28 Aug 2019 6:09 p.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 28 Aug 2019 6:40 p.m. PST |
People would have to start paying for their porn again.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Old Wolfman | 29 Aug 2019 6:44 a.m. PST |
It'd be a real dog trying to get on TMP and check my e-mail,that's for sure. |
 Legion 4  | 29 Aug 2019 9:15 a.m. PST |
Chaos would ensue … on a worldwide scale … |
| Col Durnford | 29 Aug 2019 9:28 a.m. PST |
People born after the internet would look up, notice the world around them, and find out what it really means to "like" something. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 29 Aug 2019 10:31 a.m. PST |
We'd go back to ordering figures from catalogs using snail mail or telephones, and Hobby Shops might appear again. |
| HMS Exeter | 29 Aug 2019 10:43 a.m. PST |
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the land of no internet, the king is whomever had the presence of mind to keep their library card current. |
| ernieR | 29 Aug 2019 11:24 a.m. PST |
Thresher01 –
Millennials would die…… maybe you're onto something here . where is that switch ? |
| HMS Exeter | 29 Aug 2019 11:37 a.m. PST |
Careful ernieR, they're the people who we will be looking to to keep Social Security solvent. Life ain't nothing but trade offs. |
| Tango01 | 29 Aug 2019 12:00 p.m. PST |
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| Raynman | 29 Aug 2019 2:00 p.m. PST |
I'd stop spending outlandish amounts of money! |
 Mserafin | 29 Aug 2019 2:36 p.m. PST |
You could ask people in Kashmir, they'll know. |
| evilgong | 29 Aug 2019 5:47 p.m. PST |
Fax machines would return to their rightful place as the apex of human invention. |
| Legion 4 | 30 Aug 2019 8:49 a.m. PST |
Some vey good points Gents! +1 ernieR & Mserafin !  |
