What If The Internet Crashed?

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

People these days are so dependent on the Internet that they can hardly live without it. This video is interesting because demonstrates in a humorous way what would happen if the Internet crashed and all data was lost. This video makes great use of parody and sarcasm.

The mention of "Eric Tipton of Wallingford, Connecticut" as the suspect of causing the Internet crash with loads of windows, IM, etc. running pokes fun at the fact that people are such Internet addicts, while pointing out at the same time that the police are so paranoid they could attribute anything to anyone.

This news video also mentions that the government stated "they do not have a backup of the Internet, but had always meant to get around to making one. They are so mad at themselves." This is meant to ridicule the fact that it sometimes takes forever just to get anything done through the government. "They are so mad at themselves" implicitly suggests that the government will one day regret not taking proactive measures to solve a lot of today's common problems. This is one of the ways the author of this video tries to persuade the audience that the government is not very effective. Toward the end, we see that American organizations are providing aid by either playing more funny videos on TV, or handing out more celebrity gossip etc. In a sense, this is another satirical attack on the government, ie. some American organizations can do better than the government itself. This is also intended as a snapshot of people trying to rebuild life without the Internet, as mentioned at the end of the video about how a man was being "heroic" to rebuild his entire Flickr album. This "snapshot" further allows everyone to feel the impact that an Internet crash would have on everyday life.

The video points out that the blogging community was hit hard by this crisis, and lots of blog articles were lost. By pointing out these things, the author points out how much people are depending on the data on the Internet, and establishes the effect of losing all this data. Certainly, even this English 201 project depends on using the Internet for blogs. If the Internet crashed right now (oh gosh, please don't...), everything I am typing right now would be lost.