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Ryan Wagner

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It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« on: July 16, 2007, 05:17:57 PM »
Yep...the whole Internet crashed! Darn government didn't even make a backup either.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/z4vDClhnJjs" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/z4vDClhnJjs</a>
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2007, 06:10:15 PM »
LOL. Thats great! Nigeria broke cause of it, haha that really cracked me up.
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2007, 07:38:47 PM »
Too funny!   X-D
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2007, 12:11:48 AM »
I found this video on a Dutch video sharing site yesterday. It's funny how these things can spread so quickly.
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2007, 01:55:37 AM »
Hehe, that's was a good one. We might not laugh at it someday though. I'm not stupid enough to believe all data would be lost. But could you imagine a few days without the Internet? I sure as heck can't. I can, believe it or not, take a few days without TV over a few without the Internet. Years ago I would never have believed that statement.
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2007, 02:05:12 AM »
Now that is great!  Especially about Nigeria. B|
« Last Edit: July 17, 2007, 03:06:52 AM by Al Hutchison »
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2007, 03:13:33 AM »
How do you get YouTube on here?
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2007, 04:22:08 AM »
You should replay the clip and pay special attention to the news ticker. "Giant mosaic made to raise awareness of tiles" :D

Note: some of these ticker headlines are not safe for work!
« Last Edit: July 17, 2007, 04:27:46 AM by Pieter De Decker »
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2007, 04:43:27 AM »
This video appears to be made by a site called The Onion. According to the Wikipedia, The Onion is "an award-winning, US-based parody newspaper published weekly in print and daily online".

Example article: iTunes To Sell You Your Home Videos For $1.99 Each
More video: Multiple Stab Wounds May Be Harmful To Monkeys, Study: Alzheimer’s Patients Say They Do Not Have Alzheimer’s, Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas, New Abortion Bill To Require Fetal Consent
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2007, 06:23:23 AM »
Pretty Good
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2007, 01:45:09 PM »
Quote from: Al Hutchison on July 17, 2007, 03:13:33 AM
How do you get YouTube on here?
The format you will want to use is:
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[flash=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/v/z4vDClhnJjs[/flash]
Notice that the last part of the URL is the ID of the video. Just extract that from the URL of the video.

Quote from: IceDogg on July 17, 2007, 01:55:37 AM
Hehe, that's was a good one. We might not laugh at it someday though. I'm not stupid enough to believe all data would be lost. But could you imagine a few days without the Internet? I sure as heck can't. I can, believe it or not, take a few days without TV over a few without the Internet. Years ago I would never have believed that statement.
I'm with you on that. I actually go days with TV quite frequently, but when I'm without the Internet it feels like I'm missing something.
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2007, 03:15:01 PM »
Thanks for the info Ryan. :)
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2007, 09:34:11 AM »
I'd imagine a lot of that stuff (like crying bloggers) would be reality if in fact the net went down and there was no way to restore it. Then again, that's pretty much impossible, so whatever.
Funny video.

As for TV vs net. Yeah, I really don't care about TV. I usually watch like an hour a day or so, but I could easily go without it.
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2007, 02:29:49 AM »
Nowadays, people know a lot of other people through podcasting, blogging, social networks, Twitter and forums that they've never met in person. People work together with "strangers" to develop cool software, they help each other out on support forums, people like Chris and - on occasion - myself write articles for CyberNet although I have never met Ryan or Ashley in real life (and I presume Chris hasn't met them either).

If the internet were to crash, all of that would be gone in one swoop.
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Then again, that's pretty much impossible, so whatever.
I think there are 11 DNS servers around the world responsible for keeping the internet running. If they were to crash at the same time, the internet would collapse. Even decentralized networks such as BitTorrent and FastTrack would be broken immediately, as they still need to fall back on IP adresses.

Also, I read about something called an eBomb back in - I believe - 2002. In theory it doesn't damage anything other than every power plug, battery and electronic device in a certain area around the bomb. Imagine if they dropped an eBomb on Silicion Valley or each and every of these servers. That could make our entire economy collapse...
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Re: It's a Sad Day when the Entire Internet Crashes
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2007, 04:14:58 AM »
Your eBomb is whats known as Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, wikipedia article, its what happens when you set off a nuclear bomb. Interestingly, there is a reference to Electromagnetic bomb, wikipedia article, which is news to me as I didn't know there was a way to create it without actually detonating a nuke. I've read stuff that during the cold war it was theorized that you could target an EMP blast at a city, without actually nuking the city, by detonating the nuke in the upper ionosphere. But hmmm interesting, I really didn't know it was even possible to create one without the nuke part.
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