What will you do if an internet collapse for an year ? I think I will myself collapse for an year. What about you guys ?

Me too. However I'll keep myself busy with reading Books & Novels, Traveling, etc..........

Well, it would certainly bury a lot of businesses. I could start up a funeral service.

An entire year? That is really hard to wrap your head around the severe impact it would have globally.

The "internet" has about as much chance of going offline for 6 hours as it does for an entire year. There'd need to be a major catastrophe on a global scale for this to happen, and at that point, being able to update their Twitter status on the internet is the least of anyones concerns!

Now, we have seen smaller scale incidents of this nature where entire TLDs have been offline. The most recent I remember was in October 2009 when the TLD for Sweeden was offline due to a DNS modification. It took down all websites with a .SE extension (oops).

one year is tool long.. I think that would be the end of world for me.

I wonder What will happen to Share Markets.

If the entire internet shuts off, I think we would have other, bigger problems to worry about. Because something really bad must've happened to have caused it.

Ya me too, probably going to collapse or else I will just forget it and find a way to deal with the problem, may be I'll invent something more useful

Invent something more useful than the Internet? When you do, I want in on the ground floor.

I would be pretty surprised if it did

However I would do some local Business work most likely, and plan for when the internet came back, could be a great chance to steal some Business!

Farmers won't be so immediately affected by the Internet collapsing, as would web designers, web hosts etc. These people will lose more than their sense of security, they will lose their livelihood. Most will cope for 6 hours, but few will be able to do so for a year.

Newspapers and the television might get a lot of attention once again, and possibly a lot of money too. Bloggers having to turn journalists might be a common scenario.

Wow, the world will not be the same again, if there is no internet! I won't be able to live without it!

It must be world war III.

I think I will be a soldier. Usually soldiers have satellite and it is something like internet.

Government can exercise its right to shut down communication via Internet in case of terrorist threats. I can't imagine how the World would behave without Internet.

It's hard to imagine the world without internet (which is funny since it's really not that old). I'd probably start trying to grow my own food and learn to shoot to scare off looters.