• ThrowForward Thursday 168: The Day The Internet Dies

  • Oct 26 2024
  • Length: 5 mins
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ThrowForward Thursday 168: The Day The Internet Dies

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  • Imagine logging into your web browser and there's just nothing: no websites anywhere. You check your internet connection, and that seems fine. Your phone seems to be working. Except most of the apps are showing error messages, and there are just no websites.

    This is what would happen if the DNS system stops working. This is the system that turns your website request into an address the IP and HTTP systems can understand. And our DNS systems are incredibly fragile, completely out of date, and most are run by under supported volunteers. Yes, you read that right. One of the most important parts of the Internet sounds like it organised worse than your local primary school parent association.

    We live in a fragile world - way more fragile than we know.

    And the system could fall over at any time. It did so earlier this year, with a bad Microsoft update shutting down airports, banks and water processing plants for two days. That was a warning of worse things to come.

    On that happy note... have a great weekend.

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