First world problems, people. Serious first world shiz...
Since I live in Florida, epic thunderstorms are, happily, part of life. Seriously, I go crazy over !cRaCk!fLaSh! Tonight, however, I was in the middle of getting some important work thing done, and everything went black. Nothing saved. Epic fail. I swore. A LOT. Then I rebooted my computer to find a new devastation waiting for me around that particular corner. Google was dead. Dead to me, at least. I am dating myself here, but I remember the days when card catalogs actually existed and held *gasp* cards! I am part of the microfiche generation, and I remember the days when phones were for phone calls. Shouldn't have been a big deal, right? Wrong. I panicked. "Google? Google?! GOOGLE, where ARE you?!" My email, my maps, my calender, my... my... my blog... No recipes, no contact list, nothing. Just error message after error message. Happily, I restarted my computer (again) and Google....breath held....turning blue....worked! So I started wondering, what would happen if Google DID die? Like really, toes up, blue face, stone cold died? What would we all do? I could manage. I would function after some trial and error, but what would we lose (aside from funny cat videos)? I'd have to guess at restaurant copycat dishes and regress to Yahoo to get my email sent, I guess. No offense, Yahoo. And I'd be left to wonder whether or not humans can really outrun alligators on land.
Leave me some comments and let me know what life beyond Google would hold for you.
