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How Long Would the Internet Last Without Us?

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It's noon, and everyone on Earth has just vanished. On an empty kitchen table, a phone buzzes: your package has shipped. The internet hasn't noticed we're gone. So how long does it keep going?

The videos stop in a minute. The bots keep partying for hours (they were already more than half of all web traffic). The cloud runs on diesel for about two days. Then the undersea cables go quiet, and the internet, as one connected thing, ends. A few solar servers and thousands of satellites hang on a little longer, Voyager 1 keeps calling home to nobody, and our photos slowly fade off their drives. And even if the power came back a year later, the internet wouldn't wake up, because it's held together by things that expire. Except one copy of it, sealed in an Arctic mountain, built to last a thousand years.

If you could keep just one website online after we're gone, which one would you pick? Tell me in the comments.

Chapters:
0:00 Everyone is gone
0:29 The bots keep partying
1:32 The lights go out
2:18 The cloud on diesel
3:27 The cables go quiet
4:43 The last servers standing
5:26 Satellites with nothing to say
6:11 Voyager keeps calling
6:58 Why switching it back on fails
7:52 The data fades
8:40 The code in the Arctic
9:28 So, how long?
Category
Fly Fishing
Tags
animated science, arctic world archive, bot traffic

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