If someone was to strategically take down five websites in order to make the Internet worthless to you, what would they be?
Perhaps not worthless, but certainly more boring.
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are you planing something?
It would need to be way more than 5 to make the internet worthless.
google, salesforce (for work), yahoomail, nytimes, fluther ; )
Gmail, Xbox Live, Uncrate, Fluther, Reuters.
I pretty much just surf random car and clothing sites beyond that stuff. I pretty much would be nose down in a book…
Gmail – practically all my email is forwarded here. The one time gmail was down, I felt so disconnected with the world.
Google – Even i some of my other websites are down, I can at least see some parts of them through google cache. Plus, I google things maybe 20 billion times a day.
These 2 are the biggest for me. It’s funny you ask this Q today because we had a scare earlier today when the internet wouldn’t work. Our router is being silly so I am connected via ethernet now. And the only thing I could keep thinking is “I haven’t checked my email yet!”
Fluther – I would miss all you guys of course!
IndiaFM – I am not sure if this counts or not, because I only visit this site maybe once/week. But it is my source to everything Bollywood.
Campfire – It’s never boring in the chat room :P
I have enough books to keep me busy if these go down, but after one day, I’d want my sites back yo!
richard, if any of these websites are down tomorrow, I’ll know who to blame. AND I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE.
Google – The number of Google searches I do per week surprises me. With Google I can also lump in their document and RSS services, calendar and scholar searches, et cetera.
Reddit – I hit up this website at least 8–9 times a day whenever I’m bored, since the homepage is dynamic and constantly updating.
Facebook – Where I talk and keep tabs on most of the people I know.
4Chan – A daily source of amusement…
Waffles.fm – A music enthusiast website that I frequent.
Edit: Although I do enjoy Fluther and visit it quite frequently, it isn’t on this list simply because I use the aforementioned much much more. Hopefully I didn’t stumble on a taboo here :)
google. because if google goes, so does gmail.
Facebook. <<< College kids.
Youtube <<< again college kids, where would be publish all our dumb stunts?
Fluther my main source of random information and opinions
Rooster teeth. Where would i get my Red vs Blue fix?
If Google goes down, my world would pause. I’m so plugged into gmail/calendar/reader that I’d be on hold until it’s back up.
After that, facebook.
Fluther, Google, Proboards (I have a bulletin board there), Facebook, Snopes.
Google/Gmail
Facebook
Fluther
I think the rest of the sites I visit daily could all be replaced by alternatives with no tears shed on my part. If I had to pick 5, I would add Yahoo and Craigslist (I’m amazed no one said Craisglist already!).
don’t threaten the Internet, it is always watching, always listening, it knows where you live
google
wiki
youtube
fluther
hulu
google
wiki
pandora
youtube
facebook
I don’t know how I forgot to mention NYTimes in my list. I lurve that site.
Fluther
Campfire
Yahoo
Google
Facebook
Twitter, Fluther, Google (including gmail), BlogTV, and mpcdownloads.
Google (and all facets within)
Facebook
Myspace
Twitter
Hulu
without those there is really no need for me to be on a computer
gmail
google
new york times
fluther
cnet
myspace
fluther
livejournal
wikipedia
etsy or youtube…
Google
Fluther
My bank’s website
That’s about it! Everything else I could replace or live without.
fluther
hotmail
facebook
....urh, google
aand youtube?
Somebody making the bar graph?
Somebody taking over the world.
What? Oh, um, sure, a graph.
Google – I hate every other search engine. Literally. They’re like random website generators in comparison to Google.
Wikipedia – Hardly the most reliable encyclopedia in the world, but everything else is hard.
Daring Fireball – It’s not that I particularly enjoy reading about Apple all day; it’s that I enjoy John Gruber so much.
Facebook – Stalking everyone I know isn’t going to get old very quickly. I’ve also been speaking to the most random people from college I would have never kept contact with otherwise. There’s something very cool about that.
Reddit / Digg – If I was going to save one, it would be Reddit. I’d just like Diggnation to read Reddit stories in that case. Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose make me giggle.
I’d also not mention Fluther to some nutcase wanting to take down the best of the Internet. It can be where we run to when everything is gone.
Facebook (For my social needs)
Fluther (For my wisdom needs)
last.fm (For my musical needs)
4Chan (For my lurking needs)
Google (including gmail, igoogle, reader etc.)(For everything else)
BONUS! Wikipedia (for my information needs)
Google, Wikipedia, Ubuntu.com (where most of my software (-updates) come from), php.net and framework.zend.com. Though there are enough mirrors for, well, all five of them, so good luck on taking them down :P
Well as long as you guys are saving all those, I might as well save some other ones:
Haaretz online newspaper (news relevant to my life)
Pandora (music)
Postsecret
The Tea Talk (always good for entertainment)
StumbleUpon (never get bored)
Facebook (I’m admittedly very, very addicted)
Fluther (also very, very addicted)
icanhascheezburger/punditkitchen (and other lol’s)
Surf the Channel/Great Stuff TV
Postsecret
Playlist, Fluther, google, youtube, askville
No I am joking about the last one :D
vh1 as the last one maybe
@tali
I just looked up pandora dot com and it is awesome thanks for showing me another music website where I can play various 90’s songs that are extremely annoying to other people.
Google, for sure. It’s the springboard to a whole lot more.
Wikipedia has way too much useful information. And not so useful information.
Gmail. Must. Email. Best. Friend.
My university’s website, from which I download lecture notes and listen to lecture recordings.
Google Maps. I gotta know where I gotta go.
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