11-21-2003, 11:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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What Should You Do If The Internet Goes Down?
http://www.thetoque.net/031118/internetdown.htm
Unfathomable. I don't even want to think about it. 8O
"No one knows when the Internet will fail. It could happen at any time, leaving you bereft of your e-mail, your sports scores, and your Blogs. Therefore, it's important that you and your family have a contingency plan for just such an emergency. If your connection to Cyberspace were to ever get severed, you should at least be prepared. We have included a few key points that should assist you if that were to happen."
My first phone call would be to Al Gore. He created the darn thing. He should be able to get it back up and running!
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11-21-2003, 11:02 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 412
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:lol:
why, love the one you're with, of couse
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11-21-2003, 11:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 162
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Scary thought.
That would mean I actualy have to be social.
I would first look at the history files on my pc's, just to pretend.
Then I would have to come up with other excuses for not to be sociable.
Terrible thought. Please do not scare us that way anymore.
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11-21-2003, 11:13 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,768
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The internet placed part of what TV had done for society... can you imagine the population boom if the net went down worldwide?
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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11-21-2003, 11:18 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,264
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Prepare an emergency supply of books just in case. Or mirror a part of the net on to local disks for emergency use.
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11-21-2003, 11:21 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 354
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Originally Posted by Goldkey
Prepare an emergency supply of books just in case. Or mirror a part of the net on to local disks for emergency use.
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Or print out the internet and keep it somewhere safe 
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11-21-2003, 11:26 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 178
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Jason, Ed and the others would have to create a "Pocketpcthoughts Daily Newspaper" that I could get at my local newsagents.
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11-21-2003, 11:37 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 9
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Originally Posted by lonesniper
Jason, Ed and the others would have to create a "Pocketpcthoughts Daily Newspaper" that I could get at my local newsagents.
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Except nowadays papers are transmitted to printers via the internet :P Someone would have to fly over a rough copy from the US to get it here for us in the Uk, and by then, it will be out of date :P
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11-21-2003, 11:37 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 302
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A scary thought. :insert shuddering emoticon here:
Who are you quoting, Ed?
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11-21-2003, 11:37 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 59
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Originally Posted by Peter Foot
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Originally Posted by Goldkey
Prepare an emergency supply of books just in case. Or mirror a part of the net on to local disks for emergency use.
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Hahaha... these remind me of quotes I seen at the "computer stupidities" website. It's a website that has stupid things people said about computers (mostly technical-support releated), but some of them are real funny.
Here's the ones you guys reminded me of:
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Also heard in a University store:
Customer: "Can you copy the Internet for me on this diskette?"
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I attend a major Australian university, and the library computers are often the only Internet access that students have. This means that the librarians often have to explain to students how to use the net connection. One day as I was doing some research for an assignment, an older gentleman asked the library assistant how to print from a web site. He was fairly web savvy, so he was just asking about selecting and printing the text he wanted. The assistant complimented him on his prudent use of resources and said, "So many students don't do that. They just print out the whole Internet."
Now I knew our printers were fast, but I didn't realize they were that fast, or that we had that much paper. It was a real effort not to butt in and correct her, or burst out laughing, or both.
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here's some others
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Customer: "I don't have a computer at home. Is the Internet available in book form?"
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Tech Support: "This is technical support returning your call for support. How can I help you?"
Customer: "I want to lodge a complaint."
Tech Support: "What seems to be the problem?"
Customer: "I specifically asked you not to program my Internet with pornography. I want it removed immediately."
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There's a LOT more real FUNNY ones at: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ ... the one's I quoted were from "The Internet" section.
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