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> You're going to notice it. If the whole of the Americas was wiped off the Internet tomorrow then, for those of us in The Rest of The World (TM), life would g

> You're going to notice it. If the whole of the Americas was wiped off the Internet tomorrow then, for those of us in The Rest of The World (TM), life would go on. I think the only web property that would be annoying to not have would be Wikipedia. Second to that is the Google search engine but I take it as a given that they could cope just fine if America just mysteriously vanished one day. I think that there are some that think that Silicon Valley is the centre of the universe, some indispensable magic place where all of the innovation happens. If there was The Big One (for the valley) we would soon find out exactly how important things like social networks and iphone apps really are. Life would go on. If anything, a big earthquake in Caliphonea is far preferable to a big eathquake in Japan. In Japan they make stuff the world needs.

icebraining 12y ago
We would certainly not cope "just fine". Sure we'd get over it, but there's plenty of stuff depending on American services. The whole .com/.net/.org registry is just a small example.
sbierwagen 12y ago
If the whole of the Americas was wiped off the Internet tomorrow then, for those of us in The Rest of The World (TM), life would go on. ???? What about the DNS roots, all the sites running on AWS, any site using Cloudflare or the JQuery/code.google.com CDN, etc
- baq 12y ago
  can't tell if sarcasm or not, so here you go. >DNS roots http://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers http://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers >AWS http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-reg... >Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map >code.google.com CDN https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#Introduction https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#Intro... - no location list though, only "globally available"

icebraining 12y ago

We would certainly not cope "just fine". Sure we'd get over it, but there's plenty of stuff depending on American services. The whole .com/.net/.org registry is just a small example.

sbierwagen 12y ago

If the whole of the Americas was wiped off the Internet tomorrow then, for those of us in The Rest of The World (TM), life would go on. ???? What about the DNS roots, all the sites running on AWS, any site using Cloudflare or the JQuery/code.google.com CDN, etc

baq 12y ago
can't tell if sarcasm or not, so here you go. >DNS roots http://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers http://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers >AWS http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-reg... >Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map >code.google.com CDN https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#Introduction https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#Intro... - no location list though, only "globally available"