You have a good point, but if civilization goes down so far that there is no Internet, we're fucked anyway. And back to goods barter stage.
It will be like the old west, and little news availability and probably no phones (even landline anymore). However, we WILL still have radio, and Internet by packet radio which will be overloaded.
If we are lucky enough to still have satellite we may still get some Internet.
I was pondering how to send crypto by Indian smoke signal but then I woke up in a pool of piss and vowed to avoid that brand of tequila forever.
Land-line, in the sense it existed in 1965 is almost universally being dismantled in favor of VOIP.
It's almost as if someone dosn't like distributed systems and prefers those that can be switched off from one location. (I'm not saying the old telco model didn't have choke/failure points, but there were a lot of them)
We could be reduced to schlepping our 'blockchains' between Barter-towns on USB sticks.
Yes, I lament the passing of copper lines, replaced with glass (fiber optics) and pulsed photons. When the fallback to older times comes, all the copper will be scavenged and I guess much will be used for antennas and we will be back to radio for comm. Not even cell towers but old fashioned radio and frequencies you can handle with nearly electromechanical means. Crystal radios, hah. And vacuum tubes because you can make those by hand unlike pure silicon wafers.
Except you can't 'use' it without the government-monopoly internet, unless you want to schlepp your 'blockchain' between BarterTowns on USB sticks.
You have a good point, but if civilization goes down so far that there is no Internet, we're fucked anyway. And back to goods barter stage.
It will be like the old west, and little news availability and probably no phones (even landline anymore). However, we WILL still have radio, and Internet by packet radio which will be overloaded.
If we are lucky enough to still have satellite we may still get some Internet.
I was pondering how to send crypto by Indian smoke signal but then I woke up in a pool of piss and vowed to avoid that brand of tequila forever.
Land-line, in the sense it existed in 1965 is almost universally being dismantled in favor of VOIP.
It's almost as if someone dosn't like distributed systems and prefers those that can be switched off from one location. (I'm not saying the old telco model didn't have choke/failure points, but there were a lot of them)
We could be reduced to schlepping our 'blockchains' between Barter-towns on USB sticks.Yes, I lament the passing of copper lines, replaced with glass (fiber optics) and pulsed photons. When the fallback to older times comes, all the copper will be scavenged and I guess much will be used for antennas and we will be back to radio for comm. Not even cell towers but old fashioned radio and frequencies you can handle with nearly electromechanical means. Crystal radios, hah. And vacuum tubes because you can make those by hand unlike pure silicon wafers.