Would the web still be up if there was no people around?

[Trancelikestate]

why not put a load of zombies in giant hamster wheels to generate power. yeah great idea! haha

[Wooley]

I don't see the net surviving longer than the power, water, or other civil infrastructure. Once the people leave/die, the machines will only function for a short time before they fail themselves. The internet might have originally been a military invention, but did it's military roots cros over into it's civilian incarnation? I doubt it. Civilian infrastucture does not usually require the robust redundancy of a military system, and therfore, is not as survivable. The servers, and cables, land lines, and the other related systems the net depends on require power, which once the main grid falls, will be spotty as batteries or generators switch on. From there, hours, maybe days before the internet too fails.

[Neil]

Anybody know??? Im trying to write up a story an this came to mind... The premise - I believe - of the hole backbone one which the internet is bases, is communication reduncency. Initially this came from a military requirement such (for example) if the country (US) was attacked by nuclear weapons, communication would still be possible. Basically IMHO, as long as enough nodes were powered, then communication would be possible between locations where these "live" nodes were available. Slowly as nodes died (lack of power or technical failure) the net would slowly crumble into unjoined islands, each slowly getting smaller and smaller... ps: I recon some networks (be they the internet, or other ones) would definately have emergency power, especially military based ones!

[creepntom]

skynet takes over

[Bubdotd]

with a zombie invasion people allover the world would be goin to the us looting and posibly taking refuge here or sumtin idk lol for the enternet uhhh im sure it will still be in use. im sure if there was a zombie invasion people would be comunication from this website lol n people would be making threads of were to meet n **** lol.

[Dommm]

You would get sopme limited communication with people that have set up there own generators for powering pC's etc, but you have to remember the internet for the most part uses phone lines who would be taking care of, powering these.