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| Thread ID: 31215 | 2003-03-15 09:01:00 | The World has gone! | Big John (551) | Press F1 |
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| 128353 | 2003-03-15 09:41:00 | Also if the internet goes (the USA) then it will be only some sites which are hosted here in NZ & maybe sites in OZ that we all could access.... e.g. NZ herald, NZoom etc... The USA is the main backbone for the Internet... look what happened when the twin tower got destroyed some people in different counters could not access the Internet…... There are heaps of NZ sites that are host over in the overseas… |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 128354 | 2003-03-15 09:42:00 | > Just a question though - where does the fibre optic > cables that join NZ, Australia, Hawaii and USA all > end up at the USA side of things?? does anyone know? I guess it depends on what end of the cable you are at! :p |
Archibald (180) | ||
| 128355 | 2003-03-15 09:45:00 | Yes there are a lot of different sites that are hosted in the us, but get real guys, apart from having a verry negative effect on the US economy, there is not a magic little button labeled "cut off the internet". | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 128356 | 2003-03-15 09:48:00 | > You shouldn't make fun of my ignorance and > stupidity... > You just make me doubt my own ignorance and stupidity > even more :p I'm not tying to be a pain in the butt here. You are no more idiotic than I am. > > Just a question though - where does the fibre optic > cables that join NZ, Australia, Hawaii and USA all > end up at the USA side of things?? does anyone know? I have no clue as to where cables start and stop. One thing you can do is to check out Neotrace. Type "Neotrace" into Google. If you use this program it will allow you to trace all the servers you go through to end up at a particular server. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 128357 | 2003-03-15 09:54:00 | > Yes there are a lot of different sites that are > hosted in the us, but get real guys, apart > from having a verry negative effect on the US > economy, there is not a magic little button > labeled "cut off the internet". Agreed!!!! Herds of servers in heaps of Countries. If ALL the USA servers die then the Internet will still be around. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 128358 | 2003-03-15 09:56:00 | >Just a question though - where does the fibre optic cables that join NZ, Australia, Hawaii and USA all end up at the USA side of things?? does anyone know? In the whitehouse;) |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 128359 | 2003-03-15 10:04:00 | If the worst comes to the worst you could always use Googles Cache - that's pretty good... Although I very much doubt all America's servers would die - don't forget schools would have their own servers, and corporate companies, etc. Even if the power went out, most of those servers are on a UPS of some sort or another... |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 128360 | 2003-03-15 10:07:00 | >If the worst comes to the worst you could always use Googles Cache - that's pretty good... Although I very much doubt all America's servers would die - don't forget schools would have their own servers, and corporate companies, etc. Even if the power went out, most of those servers are on a UPS of some sort or another... Thanks for that,we were all getting quite worried;) |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 128361 | 2003-03-15 10:50:00 | The Internet when first invented (ARPANET) was designed to be a system that was fail safe during times of war. Communication is the name of the game. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 128362 | 2003-03-15 10:52:00 | But even the USA can't cut it off. | Elephant (599) | ||
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