a question about ww3

if ww3 did happen and everyone with nuclear weapons used them and by some chance people survived what would the internet look?

a reply to: theboarman

What Internet? The EM Pulses would fry the electric grid. Even if you managed to salvage your electronics in a Farraday cage, there would be no network for them for the foreseeable future.

Yup, no internet.
Just roaches and twinkies.
Maybe Keith Richards

a reply to: ketsuko

the main cables run under water, they would be fine if you knew how to access them

Probably be working fine in the DUMB's of those who started the WAR!!!

originally posted by: CallYourBluff
Probably be working fine in the DUMB's of those who started the WAR!!!

Yeah, but those would be closed network Intranets, not for the likes of us radiated muties.

I think there will be less pop up ads after a while as things die down.
I'm sure ATS will be filled with official story shills trying to debunk the whole everyone's dead premiss.

Other than that, expect a lot of unbelievable deals on amazon. Hopefully the drones will still be able to get around for deliveries.

originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: ketsuko

the main cables run under water, they would be fine if you knew how to access them

they have to come up somewhere.

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: CallYourBluff
Probably be working fine in the DUMB's of those who started the WAR!!!

Yeah, but those would be closed network Intranets, not for the likes of us radiated muties.

You never know, we might mutate to using telepathy and give birth to brainnet. Like Skynet just not in the, er, sky.

a reply to: theboarman


Its funny you ask if WW3 would effect the internet. WW3 is being fought right here, right now, through the internet.

a reply to: Bluntone22

Maybe Keith Richards

Good one he'd survive anything

originally posted by: Aloysius the Gaul

originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: ketsuko

the main cables run under water, they would be fine if you knew how to access them

they have to come up somewhere.

which means absolutely nothing to the rest of the line

a reply to: Vector99

wouldn't one piece of it getting blown up ruin the cable completely ?

a reply to: theboarman

probably still a lot of cats doing cute things...just with less hair

"some" parts of the internet would survive server side but with massive damage to the network infrastructure
plus the lack of a viable power source a global system like we currently have would be gone
for a very long time.
and the survivors would have far more pressing needs than restoring it.
In all probability
any communication system would be for voice only and would be mostly surviving amateur radio gear
military radios and old school analogue telephone style kit.

originally posted by: theboarman
a reply to: Vector99

wouldn't one piece of it getting blown up ruin the cable completely ?

This grid? Not a chance. They are transmission lines. It takes a LOT of CONSTANT energy to travel the length of them. The EMP's would be short non-constant bursts with the energy running out fairly quick.

a reply to: theboarman

I believe you computer would be radiated anyways or maybe im wrong

VHF radios. They are called HAM Radios and will make a big return. They'll be your servers...LOL.

You can get one in any decent radio shack type outlet. Real inexpensive...

a reply to: nwtrucker

Internet cables are far enough underground/underwater that they won't be affected. The good ol' ham radio would be the immediate communication form though. Breaker nine nine!

a reply to: Vector99

The cables may be underground. What about the power supply for those cables??

For that matter the power supply to the computers themselves? Most would be powerless....