... for about a week.... then with the disappearance of Wikipedia, YouTube, etc... people start debating canceling their internet service.

... then tech stocks crash, and the land values in California plummet to historic lows

... and a lot of former programmers find themselves doing agricultural work in the fields

Hardware demand outstrips supply as everything grinds down to a halt, buttons that use to respond in 0 seconds get multiple progress bars with accurate percentages calculated by machine learning reporting partialEventProgressStatus back to their respective motherships in real time. Then we finally crack the code and perfect eyeballs on ads and talk about nothing but tokens per conversion.