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Maximum survival time without Internet?
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Time to be aggressive. Go after a tattooed Virgo.
(Score: 4, Funny) by HeadlineEditor on Tuesday May 07 2024, @11:49AM (1 child)
Coincidentally, my internet connection went down this past Sunday here in rural Outer Hackistan, but I didn't really care right away because I was in the middle of watching a movie on a local media source. But as luck would have it, the one local cell tower was down at the same time, so I couldn't even call the cable company to find out what was going on. I panicked. It was surreal. I had to drive 15 minutes to the next town to get a cell signal, at which point the cable company didn't want to talk to me becuase I couldn't tell them my customer number (which was printed on a paper invoice) or the MAC from my router, which was of course at home. I cursed myself for not bringing my handheld dual-band ham radio just to see if anyone else was having a problem. Every person or car I saw I imagined they were doing the same thing - trying to figure out why they didn't have internet access or cell signal. I wondered if it finally happened and the big EMP had gone off somewhere nearby. Was it the Russians, or the Chinese? How could I get in touch with my family to find out if they were safe? My throat got all constricted and I started to sweat. What was I going to do? Do I risk driving into danger to see my family? What horrors could possibly await outside of my little idyllic country village? I had no way of finding out what was going on in the outside world! I even briefly considered the unthinkable - stopping to speak to another human I saw - but fortunately I resisted.
I drove home to get my radio, and internet was back on. So I took a nap.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday May 09 2024, @12:22PM
It is a strange thing, we often have correlation between internet downtime and cellphone downtime where I live. I guess they share some infrastructure.