Well, clueless people must think Fakebook is the Internet.
Those are all social media companies. They are not the Internet. When the social media companies and some search engines go offline, the Internet will still be working. You can still connect to work, get work done, etc.
The line where Q says the Internet will be paused is the only one that is concerning... as long as the pause is not too long, I don't care (I have lots of books to read).
Before search engines one would find other sites via hyperlinks from one site to the other. Initially this is how search engines (a.k.a. web crawlers at the time) built their databases. Oh, how I miss 1995 Internet.
killing/poisoning DNS servers will stop the majority unless they know the actual IPs(v4 that is) remembering an IPv6 address would be a feat unless it is saved and not everyone uses IPv6. Now if routers are poisoned, bad/false routes ex. and a fiber line or three is turned off, that would truly cripple things.
Well, clueless people must think Fakebook is the Internet.
Those are all social media companies. They are not the Internet. When the social media companies and some search engines go offline, the Internet will still be working. You can still connect to work, get work done, etc.
The line where Q says the Internet will be paused is the only one that is concerning... as long as the pause is not too long, I don't care (I have lots of books to read).
All things considered, the internet will be pretty narrow if all the search engines go down.
It would be nigh impossible to find any site you don't already know exists.
That would effectively be a "pause"
Before search engines one would find other sites via hyperlinks from one site to the other. Initially this is how search engines (a.k.a. web crawlers at the time) built their databases. Oh, how I miss 1995 Internet.
Web surfing is a long-lost artform.
Maybe it will make a comeback?
killing/poisoning DNS servers will stop the majority unless they know the actual IPs(v4 that is) remembering an IPv6 address would be a feat unless it is saved and not everyone uses IPv6. Now if routers are poisoned, bad/false routes ex. and a fiber line or three is turned off, that would truly cripple things.
Not really a problem. Use Qwant (French), Yandex (Russian), or WebCrawler (ancient?) search engines instead.
Brave just released a search engine. I use their browser.
For those who do not know those search engines exist, they will still have no outlet to discover them.
The Search Engine monopoly is that strong.
Even so, thanks for the list. I'll write them down.