What if the Internet stopped working for a day?

[Gertrude]

I was quite surprised by this article.

It seems many people would have some difficulty imagining life without the Internet.

I am not sure I would even notice if the net shut down for a day as I don't log on every day. (Of course I would hear about it)

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2017...pped-for-a-day

[Aeson]

I wouldn't get paid

[Egbert]

I wouldn't be able to place a poast here.

[Dinner]

Productivity would increase dramatically.

[Proteus_MST]

Productivity would increase dramatically.

This, for sure (at least among those not doing work that requires internet access)

I would definitely notice it ... I use the internet every day ... also for productive reasons (eMail communication, researching required information for programming tasks) and for other things in daily life (like gettting informations how to get from A to B via train, tam, bus and many more, getting informations about the weather in the coming days, hours and so on)

[rah]

While I usually access it 6 days a week, having grown up without it, it wouldn't be traumatic like it would probably be for my daughter.

[loinburger]

I wouldn't be able to do my job without the internet since I telecommute - I do 99% of my work on a bunch of servers located somewhere in California, and it wouldn't make sense for me to do that work locally during an internet outage (I need computers with at least 64gb of ram to do my job, my local machine has 8gb). That said, during an internet outage I'd just read a book or something.