What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail?

https://lemmy.ca/post/1292945

What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail? - Lemmy.ca

A significant amount of trade skill knowledge and examples are tied up in YouTube. Does anyone remember building a deck before YT? You would go to the library, make copies of books or magazines that had a general idea on how to do it, then you would try to do it yourself and things would go wrong constantly.

There’s a lot of this type of stuff that would simply be lost. It’s not unusual to find videos from 15 years ago that are still relevant today.