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It would be possible to shut the internet down but nobody has even come close to doing it.
There are 13 so called super nodes or servers that keep the internet traffic going, 7 in the US, 2 in Australia, 1 in Japan, 1 in the UK, 1 in Sweden and 1 in Germany. The internet requires only 4 of these to be fully operational to run smoothly. The closest anyone has come so far to shutting these servers down was a DOS attack which knocked out 3 of them for just 30 seconds.
These servers have so many lines of defense that the actual odds of shutting enough of them down for a sufficiant time to completely turn off the internet is 250 Trillion to 1. Even the worlds fastest computers combined couldn't do it!
Possible Yes, Probable NO!
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