What If You DESTROYED The INTERNET? | DEBUNKED
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- We investigate how the internet could be taken down, the consequences of an Internet Apocalypse, and if it could all be done by a single person.
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What would you do if the internet just...went?
Be glad I invested in silver and hard assets instead of crypto. But, it would be a world for entrepreneurs. All big business would collapse. Some communities would grow closers, some would infight and loot. I would also be vary glad that I own a gun for self defense, the police where I live are corrupt and useless.
Debunked um... I think what you are talking about is no electricity because without internet we won’t have any usage for phones and thing but it feels like your talking about not having electricity because some of what your talking about is mainly electric based of not internet
Chill maybe fish idk
Gulag people
Noble Phoenix rip
The lesson: start writing down the ip addresses of your favorite websites to survive a netpocalypse
Actually just getting a custom router or something that remembers the addresses for an extended amount of time might just be enough ^^
Unfortunately, the websites use dns lookups for most things on the backend and probably wouldnt work either. Blockchain based DNS meshnet would solve it though.
There would be IP dealers, who sell the IP addresses of the main websites.
Angry kids on Xbox live would be pros in that
Good idea, doesn't work. You can run CMD on Windows and use the "ping xxx" command, where xxx i an internet adress such as www.google.com.
Now it tries to ping the website and shows you the ip adress it got from the dns server.
Now you can try to enter that adress into your browser directly. On google it usually works but on more complex sites, that rely heavy on personalized content and are heavily scripted (e.g. ebay) it doesnt work at all or just redirects you to the "mother" site (eg. the ip for youtube gets you to the google homepage).
(If you want to try it for yourself and it only shows an IPv6 adress you can run the command with "-4" at the end ("ping www.google.de -4) to get the IPv4 adress.)
One person couldn't take down the internet, but a certain star could with a certain solar storm...
Its happening brah
We existed before the internet.
So maybe we’d figure it out.
Did we? Or are we in the Matrix?
Two Sentence Horror Story: Day 400. Still no internet.
South park did an episode about that :)
This would bring the world back to some sense, I'm sure. I hope it happens.
Hephaestus chaos at first but over 50 years or maybe more it would make the world a better place. And even if it is shut down we can always build a new system
@@dylanholicky8709 i agree with the both of you
I have been using the internet for 18 years. It's crazy to think about it. Gotta thank my dad for being an early adept and teaching me how to use the computer.
A 'game changer' doesn't quite do it justice does it!
Last time Whatsapp went off, I felt extremely free. It was awesome. I hate being so reachable. Sometimes I just want to be left alone.
Nothings forcing you, sounds like a you problem.
Same
Turn off notifications. Thats what I do
I grew up before the internet. What really worries me is how ubiquitous it has become. I can hardly do anything these days, from my job, to personal banking and dealing with officialdom without being able to log on. Even booking theatre tickets. I've just had three months or so without access at home and it was hell.
Coronavirus: I can incite fear that drives people to panic buy at the grocery store under the spectre of economic collapse.
Global Internet outage: Hold my beer...
Me: watching a video about what would happen if you turn off the internet
Wifi: *stops working*
Me: *Panics*
So does this mean that the only way to prevent the internet from dying is to have a lot more companies to run the internet instead of a small amount of companies?!🤨🤔🧐😳
I'm an old stone age knuckedragger. Born 1971 and 49 years old. I've heard old legends about the golden times when people actually were outside playing and meeting friends. Physical friends. But I'm just an old rambling fool. What do I know? 🤔
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I'm from 88 and there was still plenty of that. I would say somewhere around 2000 (blackberry phones) did the internet in your hand and your head down in your phone become the social normal.
@@theaceofspades485 yes. Maybe my memory isn't what it used to be but your username brings memories back... I saw Motörhead live once. Goosebumps!.. But that is of topic. Just wanted to say that what I was talking about maybe is just legends and myths. We sat outside smoking pot a lot and snorted speed so my memory might be affected by the sunshine ☀
Yeah, and you've adapted from life w/o internet to life with it. You're used to it, and would have a tough time just like everyone else if it somehow went down.
@@theaceofspades485 Your username sounds like my fav. band called IV of Spades. Try listen to their songs. I would recommend you "Hey Barbara", "take that man" and "come inside of my heart". Give it a try, you would absolutely love it ❤️
Me:hastily copies TH-cam's IP address and writes it down
Just an FYI the google cache servers that serve as the front end will present the google homepage if there is no domain in the URL.
Video Games don't cause violence, lag does!
and spawn campers, repetitively dying to some jackass for 3 minutes straight is not my ideal match.
*makes this video*
*next day the internet goes down*
@Morgan Smith r/whoosh
"Global Pandamics" well would you look at that
Just what I was gonna type!
There was no internet before the early 1990s , so it is not like no internet was not done before.
The problem is the time it would take to go back to a non-internet based system - weeks possibly months without food, power and water.
I mean even if it gets shut down it's not like its gone... it can be brought back up...
Who else is here due to the news that our internet will probably be knocked out for weeks or permanently, due to a massive solar storm that's already hurdling towards earth and will hit by Monday?
Me
Lmao
I agree , Internet must be down, as soon as posibble. People be manage reality with real close physical activity, for better future,
The technology we have today is impressive. But no matter how advanced it gets, we're already far too dependent on it, we literally couldn't survive without it.
Sometimes I wonder if this is history repeating itself, if becoming too dependent on our technology has happened before. We don't know because another thing that happens over and over, we keep destroying our past, either like what happened to the library of Alexandria or because of other situations where the past is purposely destroyed or rewritten.
We could survive 100% without tech
@@theprodigy9617 not 100% of us. Maybe WE can. But it also depends on what the details are... I mean if we can hunt our own food and live off grid ok.
But like no electricity. Or if the internet went down entirely, it would have harsher consequences than just a bunch of millenials suddenly not sure what to do with their hands. Everything is connected to the internet now.
So I guess if you're not in a major city. And you don't spend all your time learning to take selfies and vlog about fast food restaurants.
I know a few things, idetentify wild edible plants, how to make soap with wood ash, gunpowder and a bunch of other things. And it would still be hard to get used to for me.
I support the internet apocalypse
I work for a major telecomm company. The software used to connect huge data pipes to one another to make parts of the internet work is ANCIENT, it has fields in kbps lol.
This also means, in theory, I COULD take out large chunks of the internet in the United States, but all of it? I'd very like have my ID revoked before that happened lol... and I'm probably overestimating on what I could actually get disconnected; there's probably failsafes in place if a bunch of disconnect orders suddenly start getting pushed out by a rogue employee XD.
I’m in the mid of the video and am really hoping he doesn’t tell us how to turn it off
Well Recently there was blackout in my City, about 2 days without Internet, It sure is Anoying Live without it ✨😢😢😢✨, Great Video
This is over a year old with less than 100k views. Tragic.
Shutting down anything will ALWAYS hurt those who are the lower end of the hierarchy. Including almost any regulation done to anything, e.g. taxation, criminalization of anything, tariffs, etc.
Meh i don’t care
13:52 left to right, left to right.
Thanks for doing the research on this!
Thanks for watching
11:07 Wait... a minute
Scary to be so dependent on something 😬....kinda glad I've lived most of my life before the internet existed. But now I'm addicted. But I don't have too much more life left. Can't believe I said that..
It wouldn't be that hard to reset to the 90's, and don't think preparations haven't been made.
Does your company spend a lot of time teaching you how to operate dinosaur systems from 30 years ago? Because if the internet fails, everyone's going to have to be able to do that to keep even basic features of civilization running.
Hazard Hound just look at how many people rely on internet for jobs, governments, businesses, etc. it would cause mass chaos
Catato Blob, some stores actually do make sure that at least some of their employees know how to use a credit-card copier like in the old days, but most places just close until their systems are back up. About 10 years ago, I was in a library during a black-out and they switched to signing out books with paper forms, but a couple of years ago when it happened again, they just stopped signing stuff out. Analog is dying. :-\ 🤷
A Carrington Event level CME (Coronal Mass Ejection)could potentially take out the entire internet, though at that point the internet would only one of a long list services to go down and would take a long time to get things back up and running to pre-event levels.
What about a huge sunspot flare-up? Trying satellites and a lot of electronics... Sure would bugger up the internet somewhat... 🤔
Exactly what kind of emergency would be solved by shutting the countries internet off
Jeff Lee damn I was hoping you’d say Godzilla attack
That sounds more to me like "what if the internet went, and people did absolutley nothing to work around it and paniced like in a simpsons episode"
I imagine a SouthPark style world where there are big encampments where everyone gets like 1 minute of internet
Y'all forgot to add BGP Route Leaks to list, which took out this morning's "internet" for a few chunks of the world.
mmm somewhat network based guy I see
4:24 👀
A lot can happen in a year
3:27 He said billion right, 'cause that is million.
I wish I could just destroy internet, or infestate it with virus that will copy it self endlessly to the point that internet would be unusable.
If u hate it don't use it
Humans with no internet for tens of thousands of years: We're fine.
Modern Humans without internet for a weekend: End of the world.
We really are pathetic now.
I mean, you can say the same thing about electricity. We survived tens of thousands of years without it, but have been heavily dependent on it since the beginning of the 20th century.
Yeah but we don't need the internet
@@johngilliam6764 This has got me wondering on how quickly the old local BBSes would arise again, perhaps causing old computer tech, like modems, and Pentium and earlier class computers...
See this is why we can’t have cities.
Watching this in January 2022 was interesting o,o
The only one that can destroy the Internet is ralph living proof watch ralph breaks the Internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣
NOCVidz You must be fun at parties.
Or they're just an adult, which the OP is clearly not. (COPPA wants to know your location.)
Those people who prevent and repairs cables are the real heroes in our world
True Dat!
What If There Was No Internet?
There'd be no need to use Dashlane
short answer: no
np
Thanks man
Cool, peace.
The same as what happened before 1990
"imagine beeing an evil genious to cut internet supply"
a georgian grandma :
Is that a sticker/emoji that only people who join this channel can have?
@@X11CHASE no... I was on my computer and its One of the few stikers it allows on TH-cam.
Wait if the hackers take the internet down they wouldn’t have internet
What about a solar flare or EMPs taking out the internet??
easy answer 1 person wouldn't take down the internet because it would take a group of people to destroy satellites, ground lines, and short to long wave radio transmission, 1 guy couldn't do it all
We managed in the 80s & early 90s without it, so, we'd be ok.
Ok boomer
@@frick4671 OK my child.
Ok boomer
@@shuttlethefox6042 OK my secret love child.
@@frick4671 Sshh sweetie, the grown-ups are talking
The three men cutting the cable: why isn't my phone working
Not sure they thought it through properly 😆
Egypt has a history of internet closing I see
Lmao. The world wouldn't end without internet
time to test it out I guess
Minecraft?
My biggest concern is the world of banking. Everything is done online! If the internet just went... Well, no access to your money, no money fullstop, all the records of peoples accounts would be gone, Life savings gone!, Cant buy things with card anymore, just whatever cash you happen to have on you or in a safe place. No longer able to get paid or give out wages.
With this simple ability to send and recieve money now gone, I could see a very quick descent into anarchy.
Wait til your government goes with digital currency...you'll have the same thing. 'They' will literally dictate what you can buy, when, how much of it, and how often.
@applejacks971 you're so full of shit your eyes are probably brown, will never happen, if it did you won't be alive to see it happen
@@snmnmidld6203they already have in China and the UK are wanting to roll it out.
I don't know what would hapen .I will bring my opinion about this and it possible consecuences:
We Still Use Many Technologies from the past ,it is know that many technologies which were more popular last century still in use,one example is magnetic tapes which have experienced a huge developement since its peak in the 50s .Why Still Use Magnetic Tapes , indeed, much of the world’s data is still kept on tape, including data for basic science, such as particle physics and radio astronomy, human heritage and national archives, major motion pictures, banking, insurance, oil exploration, and more.One example is how the black hole picture transported by plane in tapes. Radio communication could bring nations also a way of trasmiting information .Don't forget that 1g 2g wifi(invented in the mid-late 90s) 3g 4g are part of he Evolution and History of Radio Wave Technology whose development started on the XIX century , one example is Treatise on electricity and magnetism published by the physicist Maxwell in 1873 the first who theorized about the existence of Electromagnetic Waves.
It is true that the world would bring a step back ,but the public order ,nations would stay alive despite all possible effects of a masive strike against most important goberments due to the existency of emergency protocols and other ways of comunication.
I thought that a large solar coronal mass ejection like the Carrington event in 1859 would fry every circuit board on the planet?
Whats this internet he talks of, the electric typewriter tv combination?
You may need to watch it in 144p if that is what you're using ;-)
its a series of tubes!
Quite similar...
splo1nger Nope, teletypes and 300 baud modems
If your country takes down internet then just take screenshot before the shutdown
I would try to establish a good old fashioned BBS network locally, with connections to other similar networks through good old FIDONet.
I grew up in the final decades before the Internet as we know it existed and could easily revert back to those earlier and more primitive times.
Does this effect apps? Cuz if it doesn’t, it’s pretty much doesn’t effect much
Duh
14:56 I used the internet to destroy the internet
Or you can write all the ip addressees of the websites you use in a paper and you dont need a dns server. Also I think your computer already memorizes the ip address if you use the site a lot, so no dns needed there either.
Don't forget that the hacker could, in theory, just send a command into each major internet device (routers, ISPs, DNS servers, servers, satellites, etc.) to terminate its hardware and share the virus to any connected device before destroying its hardware (Since almost every device is connected somehow, so it would spread quickly), right?
What about LiFi?this could be a solution?
Upside, we will be touch with each other and hang up more with people.
Downside, After i come home late and tired, Wtf i will do with my remaining time
Yes, we'll certainly be in touch with each other as people bash each other's faces in for that packet of bread. You'll probably spend most of your time looking for clean water as the water treatment and distribution services grind to a halt. But hey, at least you'll be playing outside again. :D
Any good system that normally relies on internet access would be designed with layers of built-in redundancy in case of local internet outages, which are very common and thus very necessary to plan for. Then again, I once got stuck on a train for 9 hours straight because snow fell on a computer chip responsible for automatic track switching on a bridge and nobody could figure out an alternate way to get the train onto the correct track...
I wish it would
Wallpaper meme. The joy of autism is the most valuable untapped resource on earth
Ahem... The first thing we do before sleeping and after waking up is close and open our eyes.
you should have mentioned about solar flares, one of those suckers could wipe everything internet related out permanently if it was aimed at the earth
Another reason why monopolies, mass acquisitions and mergers are extremely destructive.
04:24
Yea, having internet or not, did not make a difference there, mate
We managed to do that just fine with the internet still functioning
We can live without the internet, but they can build new technology that we will have in the future.
Play pixel game while parallel still handing out karmanic judgement. Just a different form
Double thanos snap the internet
Well... if it would get snipped out of existence... we should call you know who to send you know who to you know where
Cryptic 🤔
@@DebunkedOfficial look at my profile picture and think again :3
What.
@@HritwRaje what¿
@@zrkiboi2083 my question to your comment, precisely.
botnet or skynet, what are we really dealin w/ here
Very informative channel and interesting too
Thanks for watching!
you can just launch a gamma radiation bomb that will destroy the Internet.
your videos are wonderful. i love the qualtiy
Thanks very much! Glad you like them!
If someone where to stop the internet it will cause chaos and everyone will start going crazy unless you find a way to distract yourself because everyone uses the internet. There are two reasons for turning off the internet and that is for a test or someone trying to make the world “healthier”
Short answer is I would die of boredom
How about go find a hobby and work for your life? Don't stay in your home knowing that there's no internet.
A half decent coronal mass ejection would fuck it up. One screwed up the early telegraph system in the 1800's, and that was robust electronics. Imagine what it would do to the likes of today's technology. Food for thought.
you forgot to mention that you can interrupt major hubs to basically cause all of the connected servers go down. Yeah, just about every country has its own and the larger countries have several, but instead of swimming under water, you could just kick off the ones in china to cause a massive economic collapse to any country that has become dependent on chinese goods.
As far as knocking the entire internet down, it would be impossible for a singular individual because of close network systems, where only certain computers can access that portion of the internet that is completely void of outside access or interference. There is also a huge flaw in the destruction of civilization if the entire internet was shut down. What you spoke of is what would happen in urban areas. There are several places around the globe that do not require the internet to function. The entire united states could quickly get itself back up and running within a few months, due to the amount of agriculture and natural resources it has access to. Welfare areas would fall into chaos and disrepair, but the more conservative areas would be unaffected. States like California and Newyork, that have made themselves dependent on foreign trade would be screwed, but the vast majority of the US would be perfectly fine. Yay for self sufficiency.
Self-sufficiency is dependent on timing if the net went down during the spring/summer months, yeah rural areas would be okay. But if it went down just as the winter/post-harvest season rolled in you'd have a big problem. Shops generally only stock 3 days worth of food and supplies would be restricted, therefore even in rural areas chaos would ensue, there may be small isolated pockets of tranquillity but as a whole, the herd mentality of humanity would kick in. If your neighbours are panicking you're more likely to panic yourself, it's part of being a social species. Throw in the abundance of guns and suddenly you've got a legitimate reason to worry about what next door are thinking for the coming months.
@@AMorphicTool fortunately, even the months wouldn't matter, at least not in the US. In rural areas that are rather conservative, EVERY house has at least a weeks worth of food and water, with religious communities and services having enough to feed several hundreds of people for months, yay for disaster preparations. Our entire federal government buildings still have a wired phone line in a closed-loop system just in case something like this were to happen. However, getting information to travel from the federal government to the state governments, to the city governments, to the county and district governments would take months, as each state is ran differently. Our military is also keeping enough food for the entire population once they actually get word to distribute it.
It's true that self preservation is a powerful thing, but it's also what made us come together in the first place. It's a lot more convenient to live in a group than by yourself, but it's a lot less stressful when you live by yourself. You can't grief others on an empty stomach and 4 clips of bullets
dWeb and decntralized web browsers would make it impossible to take out, as long as cables are intact and there is still power supply
I don't know anyone who pronounces 'Data' as 'Darta'
its a uk thing lol idk why they do it it doesnt make any sense but any time a word has a short a in it (pronounced ah instead of eh) they add the r sound best example is the name christina it gets turned into christiner
its an accent thing not UK. nearly all words have different pronunciation depending on where you living in the world/country.
i say Day-ta, go a little north in the uk and they say it another way like, go a little west and they'll say it in another...
Americans tend to say many word in weird ways compared to uk and other English speaking countries, we all sit here and cringe, at your aluminium pronunciation :')
@@gavinfitzgerald2657 not sure about your example I think it's probably just different accents and people say words with regional variations, the example you use is how I would say it and I don't sat data like he does in the video, I say it as dater like most people
Some people say four, as fore and eight like ate
We usually pronounce internet router as a rooter, as in directions is a route.
It is probably because a rout pronounced like an American is used to describe something else, like a football team winning 12-0 over someone else, you could also use the term walkover, "a rout" in UK is pronounced exactly as Americans say rout-er
But we say route as in travel more like root as in a plant
The way USA say route is the way we say router, which is a woodworking tool
Americans saying aluminium always makes me chuckle
It's all tomayto tomato
My sister's mover to Essex they say mum, we say mam
They say laugh like larrf, and bath like barrf
In UK many words spelt same but the context of the sentence makes it different
Reading is a place pronounced Redding, reading a book is more reeding
It's all a bit messy haha
I think it's all to differentiate between things that are called similar names over time, a reed or reeds are used to describe plant life near water which is probably why they are spelt different but sound the same haha
NY 1895 phone got stolen brown county public library and the community service and cops refused to take a literally report after someone literally stole it outta the womens bathroom in left side of sink .
EMP will do much damage
Sun: hold my radiation
10:03 AND those long strings of numbers (IP addresses) could change if the specified server ever goes down.
Destroying the intetnet s a work of a super HERO not villain
Fuck no
It's a work of an Anarchist you fucking moron.
Yeah #bringbackdvds
Elon heard about this and is launching 10k satelights, StarLink.
Felon Musk.
reminds me of the The Aquinas Protocol from deus ex and the new dark age ending
DATA : Da - ta
I'm guessing that he means data : dei - tuh.
Really. I threw up in my mouth a little.
@@theprogramshow8816 possibly a bit of an overreaction, bug it did sound awful - i was wondering if he was joking.
Deleting the internet will not cause a blackout. No form of electricity production requires the internet.
According to our sources it's the management of the distribution of electricity over the power grid which is done via the internet that will lead to blackouts. Thanks for watching
Live my life without Internet,😂😂🤣🤣
Poor people: first time ay?