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<blockquote data-quote="HeyEng" data-source="post: 3415748" data-attributes="member: 44022"><p>It's not *your* ability to use the internet that would make the world a very difficult place to live, it's everything else. Credit card machines stop working, you can't access bank accounts, quite possibly the electric grid would fail. In all honesty, I only think that a handful of very smart people have any idea AT ALL how bad it could get. Look at COVID...nothing too crazy about that, but damn if it hasn't disrupted the hell out of life and they STILL aren't sure about all the ramifications. How long did it take to figure out that a silly thing like chicken pox could come back 40-50-60 years later as this miserable thing called shingles?!?</p><p></p><p>Hell, just last week, a CloudFlare issue kept me from getting on about 75% of the websites I use which includes Vanguard which is one of the largest financial brokerage firms in the world.</p><p></p><p>So to trying to figure out what would happen if the "internet went down" is unpredictable. I do know that it would be very, VERY bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HeyEng, post: 3415748, member: 44022"] It's not *your* ability to use the internet that would make the world a very difficult place to live, it's everything else. Credit card machines stop working, you can't access bank accounts, quite possibly the electric grid would fail. In all honesty, I only think that a handful of very smart people have any idea AT ALL how bad it could get. Look at COVID...nothing too crazy about that, but damn if it hasn't disrupted the hell out of life and they STILL aren't sure about all the ramifications. How long did it take to figure out that a silly thing like chicken pox could come back 40-50-60 years later as this miserable thing called shingles?!? Hell, just last week, a CloudFlare issue kept me from getting on about 75% of the websites I use which includes Vanguard which is one of the largest financial brokerage firms in the world. So to trying to figure out what would happen if the "internet went down" is unpredictable. I do know that it would be very, VERY bad. [/QUOTE]
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