What would happen if Web 2.0 crashed tomorrow?
The satirical news outlet The Onion has a more-true-than funny video about all of the Internet crashing. Note how all of the sites mentioned- MySpace,Youtube,Flickr are all our Web 2.0 darlings. There is no mention of Web 1.0 classics like Yahoo or CNN. Which leads me to believe that, more and more, non-user generated content is getting left farther and farther behind and relegated to relic status, like a fax machine. And the concept of an entirely user-generated web is even scarier than a return to the old web. Just look at the comments on any Youtube or MySpace page.
Video after the jump.
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Ha! Great story, and yes as true as tomorrow!! Truth is how fragile we are as a species, planet, and biosphere. One day I was sitting on the porch in the early morning drinking coffee; I looked at the sky and the trees and suddenly got this intense download feeling of our fragility as a biosphere. Wow! Now in these times that feeling comes over me every day. Yikes!! Hold on & let go for dear life, eh?
I wish google went down
[…] say, a drunk employee accidentally hitting the off switch.) Coupled with the still-popular Onion video about the crash of the Internet, this serves as a stark reminder of just how fragile the Internet really […]
disaster, totally disaster, imho