would that be bad thing? Good thing? A bit of both? What changes in your life would occur?
Yeah, I thought the thread was how it would affect us personally.
As a society it would be bad.
It would be very bad for 1st worlders.
As a species I don't think it would matter much.
There's still many populations and cultures that do not have internet connection.
Much of the 3rd world would be slightly inconvenienced or unaffected.
Most utility grids are on an intranet not using the internet.
There are many isolated intranet systems in major corporations and large companies.
Even I use a home network intranet.
The internet is beneficial but it is far from being crucial worldwide.
The impact of LOS will be different for different generations.
There are people alive right now who have never known life without the internet.
ARPANet, became functional in September 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers in the United States. The Internet grew out of ARPANET, with ARPANET being on the subnetworks that made up the internet.
The Internet is a global network of networks while the Web, also referred formally as World Wide Web (www) is collection of information which is accessed via the Internet. Another way to look at this difference is; the Internet is infrastructure while the Web is service on top of that infrastructure.
The 10 most popular uses of the Internet in descending order of use are:
December 21, 1995
1. Electronic mail. At least 85% of the inhabitants of cyberspace send and receive e-mail. Some 20 million e-mail messages cross the Internet every week.
2. Research.
3. Downloading files.
4. Discussion groups. These include public groups, such as those on Usenet, and the private mailing lists that ListServ manages.
5. Interactive games. Who hasn’t tried to hunt down at least one game?
6. Education and self-improvement. On-line courses and workshops have found yet another outlet.
7. Friendship and dating. You may be surprised at the number of electronic “personals” that you can find on the World Wide Web.
8. Electronic newspapers and magazines. This category includes late-breaking news, weather, and sports. We’re likely to see this category leap to the top five in the next several years.
9. Job-hunting. Classified ads are in abundance, but most are for technical positions.
10. Shopping. It’s difficult to believe that this category even ranks. It appears that “cybermalls” are more for curious than serious shoppers.
Almost 4.57 billion people were active internet users as of April 2020, encompassing 59 percent of the global population.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm