Does anyone else get panic attacks with out the net? No? Oh well then...

November 20, 2003 2:38 PM

What should I do if the internet goes down?
posted by Orange Goblin (14 comments total)

Begin obsessively cleaning and sorting through piles of work, books, magazines, cds, dvds, clothes, shoes, makeup, vitamins, people, food, or anything containing two or more similar type items plus stop craving twizzlers and jellybellies. In other words go back to the way you used to be.
posted by oh posey at 3:00 PM on November 20, 2003

If the internet goes down on you, just enjoy it.
posted by wendell at 3:06 PM on November 20, 2003

No problem! I just buy The Portable Alexa Crawl, and the Intarweb becomes my hard disk!
posted by brownpau at 3:12 PM on November 20, 2003

Oh, you meant "what to do if your personal Internet connection goes down." If the whole net itself went down, there'd be a whole lot more going on than installing a game or whatnot.
posted by me3dia at 3:19 PM on November 20, 2003

I think my porn stockpile is more than adequate to pull me through.

Now, if my hard drive crashed? Then I'm screwed.
posted by Cyrano at 3:58 PM on November 20, 2003

Great! Let me bookmark this link so I can refer back to it when the need arises...
posted by VeGiTo at 4:16 PM on November 20, 2003

What? No problem! I've got the whole thing on CD anyway. (obscure reference to previous posts about support desk nightmares and ridiculous client requests and stupid business models and . . . . can we be done with those posts now?)
posted by yesster at 5:12 PM on November 20, 2003

They forgot:

11. Experience traumatic sense of being cut off from friends, intelligent conversation, and civilization; fall into deep and profound depression; curl up in fœtal position; etc.

That'd be me, anyway.
posted by Shane at 6:19 PM on November 20, 2003

What should I do if the internet goes down?

Start a MetaTalk thread?
posted by kickingtheground at 6:37 PM on November 20, 2003

Don't even fucking joke about that.
posted by mimi at 7:54 PM on November 20, 2003

the system is down?
posted by andrewraff at 8:38 PM on November 20, 2003

And you laughed at this guy. It could happen to you!
posted by arto at 12:44 AM on November 21, 2003

Is this "Internet" something I would need a TV to know about?
posted by chrid at 1:42 AM on November 21, 2003

stop that right now.
posted by Hackworth at 3:03 PM on November 21, 2003