Name: What If There's No Internet for 24 Hours
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T22:52:11.000Z
Duration: 9 min 4 s
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It’s 7am, and the sound of your alarm wakes you up.

You reach over to the nightstand to pick up your phone.

With your eyes half-closed, you notice you don’t have any new notifications.

But mostly, you’re more concerned with getting some coffee in you first!

So, you get up, grab a quick shower, and head downstairs.

After you’ve gotten some breakfast and coffee, you grab your tablet and see the same thing:

You also notice there’s no Internet connection.

It wasn’t just on your phone but all your devices.

Before checking your router, you try the ol’ “turn it off and on again” technique.

So, you head over to the router and see a blinking red light.

Gonna have to call the service provider.”

For now, it’s 7:45, and you’re already running late for work.

You decide to take a cab – maybe it’ll save some time.

You automatically open the app on your phone.

“Could this day start out any better?” you think sarcastically to yourself.

So, you run to the nearest bus stop, which is about 20 minutes away.

20 minutes that you really don’t have right now.

Winded, you get to the stop only to see the timetable screen blinking “NO SERVICE.”

Now, that’s either because they can’t track the buses and the servers can’t access

their schedule, or because there aren’t any today to begin with.

You notice the people around you for the first time.

They’re all looking at their phones in frustration, some have even struck up a conversation.

That’s the first moment when you feel panic rising in your chest.

“If it’s not just me, then it could be serious…”

You spot a cab a few feet away and hop in.

But GPS obviously isn’t working, and there’s mad traffic on the road – even with all

Horns are beeping from every direction, and it’s as if the chaos is getting worse right

before your eyes as you stare out the backseat window.

When you finally get to your office building, the cab driver’s voice almost jolts you.

You reach for your card without even thinking.

So, you have to dig in your wallet and hope you’ve got some cash on you.

It’s almost 8:30 – yep, you’re half an hour late.

Everyone else is already there when you walk into the office.

Right from the get-go, you’re already not that surprised to hear the talk of the day,

Someone’s talking about the stock market being at a standstill.

Another is talking about how hospitals everywhere are struggling to access medical records since

You head over to your desk and sit down to start your computer, wondering if you should’ve

bothered coming to work in the first place.

You can’t send any emails or reports, and you can’t download anything.

With impatient clients ringing everyone’s phone off the hook (because their Internet

and emails are down too), you and your coworkers bust out the old dusty fax machines to send

The only problem with that is there aren’t enough fax machines for everybody!

That’s when you notice another problem: with the whole world calling each other on

their landline phones, they’re overloading communication systems – to the point that

It’s almost 10am, and everybody’s up by now.

With the office becoming more of a circus with every passing minute, the boss decides

Hopefully, things will be back to normal by tomorrow…

Traffic is still congested, but there’s no point going home and just staring at the

So, you walk around until you find a place to grab some lunch.

You can’t remember how much money you have in the bank, and there’s no way to check.

Both your credit and debit cards are now useless pieces of plastic.

So, you take a 10-minute walk to your local branch.

On the way, you hear people’s theories on what happened.

Some are talking about a global cyber-attack, others are talking about something happening

That’s when it hits you: what about all your pictures, videos, and data?

You had your whole graduation video on the cloud.

All those pictures of your backpacking trip across Europe?

It’s both your fast-pace walking and the thought of losing all those precious records

On your way, you stumble across a newsstand.

All the papers are nearly gone – you grab the last one.

The headline reads: “THE END OF THE INTERNET!”

You read briefly that social media companies have already lost billions, and the market

There’s a line extending outside the entrance.

You take your place at the end only to hear the faint sound of the teller announcing,

“We’re about to run out of cash, you’ll have to come back tomorrow.”

Luckily, your turn comes right before they start sending people away.

You take 400 bucks out of your account to keep yourself afloat.

Who knows if it’ll be enough – there’s no way of knowing how long this nightmare

As you step outside, someone runs and snatches a guy’s wallet from his hands.