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No. It was a program that aggregated EVERYONE’S data on their computers they wanted to share and introduced a GUI so you could search it. With the amount of students on the UConn network I could get just about any movie or album I wanted. Someone had it. And it used the UConn network infrastructure to transfer so it wasn’t limited by internet speeds (which were slow as FUCK in the year 2000). They were LAN transfers. The University tried many many times to shut it down, but it was just a fancy GUI for network shares. They couldn’t turn off network sharing for the entire university, so there was nothing they could do.
The internet is just one huge LAN party
Dude... If the internet crashes... The last thing you're going to be worried about is your investments. Terrible perspective. Bitcoin can also exist outside of the Internet, in fact its probably more apocalyptic resistant than standard money... As long as there's a mining node that has the code for the blockchain hypothetically in a bunker in the swiss alps or something... it could be revived and as long as you had a way of connecting to that network possibly with a LAN connection you could make transfers on the Blockchain still... Take this with a pinch of salt because the technicalities are a bit beyond me but from what I understand it has this potential. Therefore all you need is a computer with power and not necessarily the internet.
So much disinformation in this post, but this guy is correct. Transactions would be fine, if you can afford an extra up to 44 minutes of delay (22 to submit to Earth, then wait for it to be mined and 22 more to get the first confirmation). We might have to add a UDP-based version of the P2P protocol to Bitcoin, because TCP is not very tolerant of huge lag. Lightning Network should largely be fine. Two nodes on Mars, after opening a channel between them (which would involve Earth), would be able to transact instantly as long there is LAN/Intranet on Mars. Mining would have to stay on Earth, however. For mining efficiency, the network relies on a new block being distributed throughout the network within seconds. Rarely does a block take more than 44 minutes (longest round-trip for Mars), giving a Martian miner a chance (would have more chances when closer but still mostly a waste of energy).