There was a sci-fi short story I read a while back. I think it was called something along the lines of "When Sys Admins ruled the world" The premise being a global viral or chemical attack or something shuts down the whole world and the only people left alive are the various staff and sys admins who happened to be working in various envirionmentally regulated data centers.

Anyway, one of the funny/sad running lines through the story is the sysadmins using the internet to talk to each other and being affraid to go outside over the internet. And the main character keeps seeing bot traffic over the internet, less and less, but even as the world ends bots are still driving traffic on the internet.