I don't think just a week would change much or cause as much widespread panic as you might think. Most would think it's just down in their area and not globally at first until they get to a radio or newspaper that's reporting about the global outage. Almost everyone has enough food and entertainment stocked up to last a week.

Imagine if there was a virus that bricked every iOS and Android device. The average IQ of internet users would instantly jump from 80 to 95. Now imagine it also took out every Windows device. The average IQ would jump far into the triple digits, maybe even above 110! You could go to message boards, forums, and maybe even mainstream social media to find actual discussion instead of just mindless spam!

>>111794
too much infrastructure in the developed world these days requires internet access
wouldn't be world ending, but it would be a major problem
maybe back in the early-mid 00s, a global internet shutdown for a week would be no more a minor annoyance, but that's like two decades behind us

also, having gone into forums, mailing lists, and IRC channels full of linux nerds: lol at
>The average IQ would jump far into the triple digits, maybe even above 110! You could go to message boards, forums, and maybe even mainstream social media to find actual discussion instead of just mindless spam!
you would mostly just find bitching instead (´人｀)

the world would heal

INTERNETZ ARE INVINCIBLE ヽ(´∇`)ノ

>>111794
Congrats, now MacOS users make up 99% of the internets!

>>111806
oh shit I forgot they existed

>Imagine if there was a virus that bricked every iOS and Android device. The average IQ of internet users would instantly jump from 80 to 95. Now imagine it also took out every Windows device. The average IQ would jump far into the triple digits, maybe even above 110! You could go to message boards, forums, and maybe even mainstream social media to find actual discussion instead of just mindless spam!
You make a very good point, why aren't we working hard to create this virus? This should be an actual effort

>Almost everyone has enough food and entertainment stocked up to last a week.
This is hardly true, Most people under 30 probably don't have very much entertainment stored physically on discs or on their own drives. They stream most tv shows, films and music and most the people that play video games will get bored of the same two or so singleplayer games that they downloaded on mistake after a about a day probably.

>>111853
surely they have a few dusty books, DVDs, old video games, board games, card games or something laying around somewhere

>>111857
Quite a lot (although probably a minority) of them probably don't at all. For those that do have something like that most probably don't have very much or even ways to use such things eg cds and dvds also for most of them these will be OLD things from upwards of ten years ago, if they want to see anything from the last few years they're basically fucked

>>111857
some more ordinary people might have a couple DVDs or BDs
music would be rough these days for most people -- I download all my shit off of youtube to disk, but a lot of people just stream from there directly or use spotify, no one gets CDs anymore, few people buy MP3s/whatever, some people might have a handful of recently purchased records but not much at all

anything that phones home or is live service eats shit, and most people are pretty dependent on services for entertainment instead of straightforward products

honestly, I am absurdly well prepared for a no-internet entertainment desert
loads of stuff to play: fullsets for ROM-based systems, ISOs of my favorite games on disc, a bunch of actual discs and systems too
a fucking asston of youtube videos downloaded to disk, a bunch of anime, some movies (not as many as I should -- I mostly go to the theater to watch movies), my aforementioned big music library, etc
a few of my friends would be prepared too, but some would do much worse than others and finish everything in a month without trying