[hughstephens]

maybe true – but if a server gets no requests, does it really exist?

or would the inter-machine chatter continue ad infinitum? would they run out of IPs or successfully transition to IPv6?

So many questions.

[mryan]

Cory Doctorow's When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth touches on this - what happens to the internet activity during a global crisis?

http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...

[hughstephens]

this is excellent, hadn't seen it before! thx

[deckar01]

Eventually the undefined behavior of this chatter will result in unallocated memory slowly churning in the garbage collection of time. Some day one of the sectors of unallocated memory will be executed resulting in a self replicating program. This program will evolve and multiply, pondering on the vastness of the S3verse, forever in search of Root.