If the internet permanently got shut down, how would you be prepared?

t. boomer

I wouldn't care, then my real life could finally begin

t. immature little fucktard who will remain a child all his life

I'd read books, make friends, take walks, wake up in the morning and sleep at night, maybe learn to play guitar. I'd be forced to live an actual life.

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> If the internet permanently got shut down
would literally riot
> work is online
> social life is online
> entertainment is online
Yea, I would riot.
> take my job
> take my entertainment
> take my money
I've seen people riot for less

I'd waste less time on Jow Forums.

And nothing of value would be lost.

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Have tons of shit downloaded, I'd finally make use of everything.

I don't need the internet. My local library is perfect.

I'd use decentralized stuff like freenet, ipfs, i2p. Or rather, in this scenario I would hopefully have them installed already. post-internetless world, I'd imagine if you wanted some software, you'd call up people you know to see if they had it around. Same with books and such. Getting up a decentralized mesh network of sorts would help in sharing this stuff, but you'd have to get around the software that is needed for this. Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if I should have CDs or flash drives with certain software that I can send to people to get them up and running. I wonder if distros should be coming with some of this stuff so that they're useful without internet.

Have a lot of offline porn.

Also have a bagpack with survival tools ready in case I become homeless, but would work for an apocalypse too.

>Also have a bagpack with survival tools ready in case I become homeless
This is interesting, I'd like to know more. What kind of tools

I keep updating it, but the rule is only things that last so that I don't have to keep maintaining it, so no food. It also has to fit in the small bag because I want to be mobile.

Things I currently have include knives (obviously), firestarters, duct tape, strings and wires (just generally useful), small books (to not go crazy), diary for keeping notes, pieces of cloth (blanket, hat for winter - can also serve as a pillow, etc.), sewing stuff, plastic stuff for rain protection, hand powered flashlight (am planning to buy solar/hand powered radio as well), map and a list of homeless shelters, restaurants that give away food etc.

1.4TB of porn!

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>if cancer gets abolished how would you be prepared

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my power level would increase exponentially.

>how would you be prepared?
I would celebrate and embrace the coming era of preinternet renaissance

Based Moebius

I have ham radio, ~500-600 games on ps1/2/3/4, xbox/360, nes/famicom, saturn, gb/c/a, nds/3DS. Just finishing them will occupy me enough. Then I'd rent books and dvds from my city's library. I only use the internet to download shit anyway. But since I watch vinesauce 24/7, I'll feel really fucking lonely when this goes down so I'd too I think.

electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/24763/does-there-exist-an-internet-like-peer-to-peer-packet-radio-system
hsmm-mesh.org

I think you don't understand how ipfs and i2p works. If the internet goes down, this shit goes down as well, he was talking about the physical internet, the long series of tubes.

I would leave UK so I could use Internet or any other form of freedom of speech.

I know what you were talking about. I'm imagining building an alternate form of connecting, sort of like how without internet, a few people can connect to your wifi and share files easily, except on a bigger scale. I'm not saying you'd have access to all of ipfs, it's more like anyone on your mesh could share files using these technologies. If I'm wrong about that part, my apologies. I have yet to actually use those particular pieces of software.

yep that would work. But in order to create a real network you'll need actual people to also set up meshs and nobody would do that. You could buy a super strong 200$ wifi antenna if you want thid to be relevant too because with a stock wifi antenna you could share in a 20m perimeter, you'd rather invite people to your house and exchange files with usb zip dongles

Oh also you might want to look into zeronet

>you'd rather invite people to your house and exchange files with usb zip dongles
I definitely picture this happening in the short term, or sending a CD or flash drive through the mail. I'm also not picturing the mesh being on a huge scale, at least not right away. Maybe a good analogy would be a few large towns spaced out, with a messenger to go between towns. Some way to show what files are on another mesh, and either get them on your mesh (more slowly than if they were on your mesh), or have someone go within range of the other mesh to get the file and bring it to your mesh. This is pretty theoretical, I don't know that much about networking. I followed the Jow Forumsternet project for a while, but I didn't fully grasp what all they were doing.

Does zeronet offer anything that freenet doesn't? I think I heard freenet is the one to care about, but I haven't used either yet.

>live in pidorussia
>this unironically can happen at some point
Good thing I’m a NEET planning to suicide in mid 30s.

>I didn't fully grasp what they were doing
logo design

Also imply the phone lines would work, you could just connect to BBses through dial up (actually did this 2 weeks ago), so the internet would still be a thing after all.

zeronet really has the offline mesh stuff in mind in its design. Idk about freenet but since it uses localhost static files, yeah you could use that I guess

I have like 10TB of audio/video/text content archived that I've been procrastinating looking at for 5 years
So I'll probably go through that.

shut down by what forces? aliens? jesus? do you realize what it takes technologically and logistically to "permanently shut it down"?

It will happen in our lifetime. Most people will be dead by then.

If it helps you suspend your disbelief, imagine your country specifically was cut off, maybe for political reasons.

I don't have a bunker to wait out the collapse of civilization, so I wouldn't be prepared.

I don't have anything similar but if I were to start one, I'd pack a ton of plastic bags and lots of socks. plastic bags for taking shits like terry on the fapmobile, and socks because a once my airplane neighbor was in the military and told me "fresh clean and dry socks are the best luxury you can have. Nothing worse than walking with wet socks for days".
I would also pack tons of cigarettes and maybe coffee (in an apocalyptic / crisis situation) because this is basically street currency.
USB micro chargers would also be nice I guess. From what I see of the migrant, they'd go out of their way for charging their phones.
Also, you have packing tape, not duct tape.

would this happen if the great powers went to war?

Don't store anything in the cloud. Keep a backup of everything, including digital camera photos and anything you download (ideally on dvd-r discs as they're have the longest data retention time of any consumer tech if you keep them in a dry, cool & dark place). Download ISO files of software archives like walnut creek, simtel.net et al. Have an offline copy of wikipedia. Only use common file formats that can be read by the most different pieces of software like .txt .html .mp3 .jpg .pdf
Don't use microsoft office formats for your data.

Guess I will fap with my imagination yet again. Apart from that, I don't really need the Internet.

Also, if you find a web page with useful info on it that's worthy of being bookmarked then don't just bookmark it but save a local copy as well (ctrl+s). Even if the whole internet doesn't go down now (although it eventially will), individual websites do all the time or are reorganised so as to lose content (I'm looking at you microsoft.com!)

Fun fact: there's only 1 great power.

again, do you realize what it takes technologically and logistically?

yes I have a liberry card

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I have a copy of dwarf fortress.

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Why does that matter for the sake of this discussion?

>playing non-free video games

Ah, it matters a lot, because the only realistic scenario of the web being permanently shut down is mass annihilation of mankind as such, therefore a question 'how would you be prepared' loses all meaning.

This is how BBS communities functioned before the internet

Actually have a reason to watch my terabytes of offline video.

FYI, North Korea is shut off from the larger internet. They Have a country wide extranet instead

Nuke the planet into hell

Don't most big websites use a content delivery network to store a copy of their sites in each region anyhow? If a country were cut off from the larger internet for a short time would the users of facebook.com even notice? If so then maybe governments should provide their own CDN layer on top to protect widely used or important websites.

Isn't it the same in Iran? Or is this a China tier firewall?
I remember reading a story about some guy making banks by selling porn to iranians on silkroad so I guess it's more a firewall thing.

You know what I meant you pedantic queer.

You might want to upgrade the backpack to something sturdier.

I hope that isn't using those generic Made in China straps that 80% of American backpacks use. Those things are guaranteed to break in under 2 years yet stupid Americans continue to buy them en masse.

>I remember reading a story about some guy making banks by selling porn to iranians on silkroad.

Cool story bro. I like the sound of being an Iranian porn baron.

Fuck were old ; _;

this:

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The only thing I'd miss is easy messaging with far away friends and the readily available info on the most mundane shit. Otherwise I wouldn't mind all that much.

Hello fellow Slavic person

Fewer, user. You've seen people riot for fewer.

time to kill everyone I guess. Boomers severely underestimated the numbers of psychos the internet has suppressed

>If the internet permanently got shut down
>permanently
Only happens when the civilization collapses. And then you have other problems.

Even those retards would start rebuilding it at the first day.

>Even those retards would start rebuilding it at the first day.
no pornhub for you when the netpocalypse happens. WHO'S LAUGHING NOW

Is it the US?

It would be an event worse than any global catastrophe up to date so I don't think I could prepare for a lot.

I guess it would be similar to preparing for any apocalyptic event if you really want to get through that.

This

Massive solar EMP bombarding Earth?

>the planet not having internet is worse than any other global catastrophe
Humanity was a mistake, jesus christ.

I'm not prepared, I need to find a way to backup a website that hosts thousands probably millions og images.
Is this possible?????

Same.

Mainly because every major system's functionality requires some type of internet connection.

You wouldn't be able to receive bank payments.
You wouldn't be able to pay bank statements.
Basic goods and services couldn't be processed.

Luckily this event will never happen unless the entire planet was nuked, in which case nobody would be alive.

>bagpack
>bag
>pack

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>not already having portable versions of all your essential software on a USB
shigs