Heard of the Dead Internet Theory? Find Out Why People Think the Internet Died in 2016 Could the dead internet theory explain what has been happening in the world? Curious about exactly what the dead internet theory entails? Source: LinkedIn Sales Solutions/UnsplashArticle continues below advertisementWhat is the dead internet theory? According to Wikipedia, the dead internet theory is the idea that sometime in 2016, real human interactions and content creation stopped happening online.