What If You DESTROYED The INTERNET? | DEBUNKED

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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Stu K - Researcher | Producer | Animator | Editor | Illustrator | Presenter
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SOURCES:
EMARKETER, BBC, THE DRUM, STATISTA, DIGITAL COMMERCE 360, PC MAG, FORBES, WE ARE SOCIAL, IWS, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, CNET, ADWEEK, MCKINSEY, BUSINESS INSIDER, TUBEFILTER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, FLANDERS TODAY, CBR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, GNI, NPR, AL JAZEERA, NY TIMES, DIGITAL TRENDS, THE ECONOMIST, TECH CRUNCH, ENGADGET, SCHNEIER.COM, THE ATLANTIC, LAPTOP MAGAZINE, VERDICT, DOMO, POPULAR MECHANICS, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, METRO, CSO ONLINE, CPO MAGAZIN, WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEWSWEEK, TELEGEOGRAPHY, ABC, LIFEWIRE, TIME, NBC, INTELLIGENT CISO, THE REGISTER, STUFF AND WIRED.

[DebunkedOfficial]

What would you do if the internet just...went?

[mantha]

The lesson: start writing down the ip addresses of your favorite websites to survive a netpocalypse

[katakana]

One person couldn't take down the internet, but a certain star could with a certain solar storm...

[seanrosenau]

Two Sentence Horror Story: Day 400. Still no internet.

[mysticarchfire]

It's incredibly disappointing to think we'd go to ruin if the internet died, millennia without it, we've had it for less than a century and are now glued to it

[lismarie]

Me: watching a video about what would happen if you turn off the internet

Wifi: *stops working*

Me: *Panics*

[ageshero]

We existed before the internet.

So maybe we’d figure it out.

[josephrhodenhiser]

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...

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The internet is our drug, it'd be impossible to simply erase it out of existence. Unless you had an Infinity Gauntlet.

[BHNative]

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.

[jamesupton]

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.

[hephaestus]

This would bring the world back to some sense, I'm sure. I hope it happens.

[Silverxlx]

Me:hastily copies YouTube's IP address and writes it down

[alicechew]

I can't imagine our lives if there were no internets, back to the olden days.

[MrRickieColl]

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.

[Touhou]

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?!🤨🤔🧐😳

[aaron]

Thanks for doing the research on this!

[tylerl]

*makes this video*
*next day the internet goes down*

[CoopaTheGreat]

I’m in the mid of the video and am really hoping he doesn’t tell us how to turn it off

[TheTuxedoCreeper]

Video Games don't cause violence, lag does!