I hope this isn’t true…if it is, it could make the internet virtually unusable

[moggy1968]

If they all stopped working we’d have to go back to Good ol’ Yellow Pages, and you can almost see through them these days.

My job would be rendered almost impossible without the internet

 

[chapel gate]

If they all stopped working we’d have to go back to Good ol’ Yellow Pages, and you can almost see through them these days.

id forgotten they even existed.

 

[chapel gate]

My job would be rendered almost impossible without the internet

you could deliver yellow pages instead..

 

[Shayne]

That’s certainly more credible. One wonders what he makes of what his invention has become

And he gave it away - public property free to all - so there are at least still some scientists out there that the EU can't buy or blackmail into telling lies for commercial gains .

 

[SimonD]

For those not enjoying Google tracking their every move this browser is getting better and better https://duckduckgo.com/ .
Tim Berners Lee is looking to build a "new Internet" called solid [massive simplification] https://www.wired.com/2017/04/tim-berners-lee-inventor-web-plots-radical-overhaul-creation/ and https://solid.mit.edu/