Nolan Perry

What packet switching basically does is send your data in separate pieces – each tagged with your intended destination. If you had a permanent connection to the intended destination or if your email traveled as a whole instead of in pieces, an entire portion of the network would be blocked every time you sent a message. There is one internet line, so when Person A sends his email, it doesn’t go through because Person B has the whole line blocked to send his huge amount of data in the Email. Instead, The Router Takes Both Emails and sends a Tiny Bit of it at a time switching back and forth until it’s all sent.

Most Businesses will shut down, as they couldn’t purchase supplies, manage inventory, receive orders, fulfill the orders we already have, process payments or invoices, or even ship anything. On the radio, the president finally addresses the nation, with reports of widespread looting and rioting, the difficulty for the police to keep civil order, and hospitals getting a mass influx of injuries from all the altercations and accidents; the president doesn’t go so far as to declare martial law, but he does call up the national guard to help ‘maintain order.’ When the stock markets went back up 2 weeks after the ‘net-out’, it instantly crashed and there was a renewed public panic amid an instant global depression. It’s finally getting to the point where basic products like milk, eggs, and gasoline are back to pre net-out levels of availability, although prices are still at record highs.