How fragile is the internet? Could it ever dissappear?
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The modern internet is a network and a social platform.
As a network the internet is robust enough that the likelihood hood it dissappearing is minimal. If the physical network no longer works society would likely have bigger issues.
As a social platform, what people think of the internet can dissappear and has done so in the past. Early internet was used to share files between researchers. There was no websites. This is long gone. Early 2000s internet was AIM, flash games and funky dial up sounds. This is also gone. While the network stays in place how people use and interact with the internet changes overtime and this means some parts of it disappears. For a lot of people Facebook was the internet in the early 2010s. No few people use Facebook socially. The same could happen to Twitter, Instagram, Discord or any other service.
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