Timeline for Would it ever be possible to restore the data currently on the internet if the internet were to totally shut down?
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 16:09 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 8:17 | answer | added | Ekaros | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 21:29 | comment | added | Alex Hajnal | @Allan Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that the entirety of archive.org is located in a decommissioned church in San Francisco, CA, USA with only a single mirror at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (in Alexandria, Egypt). | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 21:07 | answer | added | Alex Hajnal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 21:02 | comment | added | coppereyecat | I agree with @NotThatGuy and @J - the internet is not a thing in and of itself, it is a collection of things across a broad geographical area, a significant number of which must work together correctly at once for you to receive what you call "the internet". On the other hand, if we move toward peer to peer networking / web 3 / decentralized internet, restoring a subsection becomes more viable as devices with a network link to each other can communicate at least whatever data they have stored without relying as much on regional infrastructure. | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | "Restoring the data" isn't going to be the problem. Restoring power and connectivity, as well as booting and admin issues to the millions of servers in hundreds of thousands of different locations is going to be the show-stopper. It will take an unimaginable number of person-hours of (skilled) labor to do this. | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 15:44 | comment | added | J... | It might be helpful to take a step back and actually study how computers and networks work. It seems like you're coming at this with a pretty big technological blind spot and with a lot of misconceptions about what the internet actually is (and what it isn't). | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 2:13 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | It would've probably helped a lot/answered your question to read a brief summary of what the internet actually is before asking this. | |
| Dec 18, 2021 at 1:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 18, 2021 at 0:45 | comment | added | user6760 | internet is a collective structure meaning there are probably 1 billion computers sharing files and folders with each other talking the same language(network protocol, i.e. TCP/IP etc) so do you mean you destroyed all those computers? | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 23:20 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | You need to define how long ago the internet was shut down. More than 50-100 years and both the electronics and storage media are almost certain to have failed irrecoverably because of aging and other physical and chemical processes. | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 21:19 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 20:53 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 19:50 | comment | added | SoronelHaetir | The good news is that most of the available data is completely irrelevant to the new circumstances. It simply doesn't matter what Fred Jones had for dinner every night of his life fifty years ago when Maria is now spending 18 hours a day caring for kids and Tom is out working a field just so they have something to eat. The information needed for these circumstances is all printed and preserving that will likely be a much more salient undertaking. | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 18:21 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 18:10 | answer | added | Goodies | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | BTW, welcome to Worldbuilding! Please be sure to take the tour and read through the FAQ -- not only will you better understand how Stack Exchange sites (like this one) work, you'll get some free reputation out of it. | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 17:42 | comment | added | Allan | there are redundant repositories of data serving archive.org | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 17:26 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 17:26 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 34 | |
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| S Dec 17, 2021 at 17:20 | history | asked | Græ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |