What will happen if internet will gone forever?

First of all, anything with “web,” “cloud,” “smart,” and “live” would become useless and non-functional. A lot of apps on your phone or computer rely on internet access to do what you want them to do. With the entire internet gone, they would be left adrift.

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I still vaguely remember the days before we had the internet to torture each other daily (and cat pictures). It seems inescapable these days, but like every other bit of high-tech infrastructure, it’s one bad day away from tumbling down. So aside from having to work from the office again, what would happen if the internet shut down forever ?

What is the internet?

To be pedantic about it, the word “internet” refers to the network of connected computer networks around the world – the physical infrastructure. The World Wide Web is closer to what you mean when you say “the internet,” though – it’s the software that makes the internet into the thing we love to hate, and not just a bunch of wires connecting a lot of computers. For this article, we’ll be using the word “internet” to refer to both things because I’m a rebel who plays by nobody’s rules, and you’ll get the gist of the article anyways.

What would happen if the internet crashed?

Use social media;

Do online shopping;

Look up things online;

Play multiplayer games;

Stream anything;

Get live updates for your software;

Do online banking;

Download games;

Download files other than games;

Call or text in some cases (hello, Japan).

To simulate the effects of the internet service getting shut down for good, sit down with your smartphone or your laptop, and disconnect it from the internet: Wi-Fi, mobile data, wired connection – the works. Now see what you can do with it. The internet connection going down permanently affects more than just our ability to tell strangers that they’re wrong online. It also forms the backbone of a lot of business and government activities. All of those would get shut down in quick order.

Files stored on the cloud? Gone.

Access to databases? Down.

Instant communication between business or government entities? Not a thing anymore.

Live tracking of shipment? Almost entirely extinct.

The economy would tank immediately, and as we all know, this leads to bad things happening. Many of the nifty smart government services would be out, too: I couldn’t declare my taxes, book a doctor’s visit (without having to call anyone), and so on.

All things considered, an internet crash would be bad.

How could the internet crash?

As the internet isn’t a centralized system originating from a single point, it’s very hard for one single thing to crash the entire thing. There are two broad areas that can be targeted to crash the internet: physical infrastructure and the software running the web.

By targeting the infrastructure

This means cutting wires, damaging satellites, destroying internet exchange points, and so on. Naturally, such an attack would be very hard to carry out on a global scale. At the same time, any natural disasters (asteroids, etc.) that could take out a huge part of internet infrastructure would cause other, larger issues than losing connection.

By targeting the software

This would entail using bugs and releasing viruses to stop web protocols from working. It is a lot more technically feasible without a world-ending catastrophe. However, it is still unlikely due to the complexities involved and people working to not let that happen.

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