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Maximum survival time without Internet?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by dx3bydt3 on Friday May 03 2024, @11:27AM
I would say I could survive indefinitely without internet, though not necessarily comfortably.
Like the AC who posted before, the internet wasn't meaningfully a thing for anyone until I was an adult.
These days I often go camping for ~2 days at a time with no connectivity.
Every few years we get a hurricane that knocks out power for 4-7 days, where I live that also takes down the cell network after the first hour or so. All survivable.
Long term survival would depend on whether the internet ceased to be, or I was personally being deprived for whatever reason.
If it was the latter I'd need to find a new job, or take up subsistence farming. I'd also probably have to transfer my assets to a different "brick and mortar" bank, which would be a hassle, but should be possible just over a phone.
If it was the former, things would suck for a long time, and I'd have to go back to using paper catalogues to source components/materials for work, assuming the business survived the internet collapse.
If the question was more intended as millennial/gen z hyperbole for "how long can you go before being uncomfortable without internet?", for me that would be somewhere between 2 and 7 days.
In that time enough things crop up that I want to look up, or shop for, that I tend to miss it if it isn't available.