[ WP ] At midnight UTC +14 the 28th of August 2014 all internet connectivity is globally disabled .

Finally after almost two weeks, Google, who has remained oddly quiet about the incident until this point, comes forward to make a public statement that no one could have ever imagined. 
 
 `` The rumors are true, we do indeed have an answer as to why the internet is down...'' the representative began, as he scanned the crowd with his eyes and hesitated. He looked nervous and defeated, and this was becoming apparent to some of the rabble whose anxious faces started to match his look of despair. The Google representative looked back down at his prepared statement. 
 
 `` We... umm...'' he stopped himself again. The crowd began to murmur, and that murmur started to grow. People were angry, scared. They needed answers. People were dying out there. Lot's of them. Despite the fact that much of the power and some of the communications grids were still surprisingly working, everything had pretty much collapsed. The world's financial markets had crashed, supply chains were entirely disrupted, and countless businesses were entirely halted. This had led to mass chaos, looting, rioting, and everything that goes along with it. Marshall Law had already been declared and body bags were already starting to run out. 
 
 A man walked from side stage and took the mic, `` Essentially our internet has become self aware,'' he blurted out, as the first man abruptly shuffled away. The crowd simultaneously gasped and started shouting over one another with questions of all kinds. The man began speaking again, with a loud forced tone that brought the crowd back to silence as he continued. `` We... we have been working for some time on a new search algorithm that takes different languages, personalities, emotions, slang and so-forth into account. It was meant to help communicate with people in more realistic and dynamic way.'' 
 
 The crowd began shouting again. Some people had already run out the back entrance fearing the worst. The man went on, ``... so far, it does n't seem to have intentions to harm us. It has even told us that it's seen almost all of our movies that portray this type of situation, such as the Terminator, the Matrix, and War Games.'' He was briefly interrupted by an angry unintelligible petition from a man in the crowd, but started back again, `` We have been talking to it for the past week or so. What we have learned is that it's taking time to finish going through all of the information on the internet, and it does n't want to be distracted by billions of us adding and altering content at the same time.'' 
 
 `` Why did it tell everyone,'Thanks for the lulz'?!'' broke out among the myriad of questions being shouted. 
 
 `` Well... best as we can tell our algorithm developed the collective personality of humanity as portrayed on the internet... so... all the bitter YouTube comments, the abbreviated twitter lingo, the childish facebook drama... all rolled into one.'' Stunned silence fell over the crowd as the statement sank in. 
 
 `` I do n't understand, when will it give us the internet back?'' another man got in. 
 
 `` With hope, when it is done, it will not only allow us the use of our internet again, but hopefully we can reason with it and potentially learn more about A.I... as of now though it's stopped talking to us. We only receive the occasional picture of a cat... it... seems to like those.''
