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The very architecture of the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then) made it impossible to take over, and traffic would naturally route around any damaged links or nodes.
Google and CloudFlare have since proven that sonsaremoved with enough money can subvert it completely, and it only takes a few dudes dragging an anchor from a boat to disconnect entire countries for weeks and months.
- It took them a long time to get there. As corporate ISPs took over from the government and universities, the Internet got built around a few large pipes rather than several smaller ones. It's cheaper to build and maintain, but more prone to failure.
  Some of the redundancy from the old ARPANET is still around in the US. Everywhere else, it mostly got built as above. One ship laying an anchor somewhere they shouldn't has brought entire countries offline.
- It still routes around damage, but if all the roads are closed you can't get in or out of somewhere.
- [...] the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then)
  Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
  The World Wide Web, being a massive collection of computers across the globe that are interconnected, quickly earned the title of "THE Internet" (upper-case "i"), to differentiate it from smaller isolated networks.
  "World Wide Web" turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with "the Internet" instead. Although most websites still start with "www" to represent their global reach.
  Nowadays, we've stopped using the word "internet" to describe smaller networks, so the word mostly just refers to the global network. And as such, if doesn't really matter if you capitalize it or not.
  However, I was there when the web became accessible to the public and the nomenclature has stuck, so I always capitalize the Internet when referring to it.
  
  Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
  That is an intranet, not internet, and is still applicable as a term. You just hear people say LAN more these days.
  "World Wide Web" turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with "the Internet" instead. Although most websites still start with "www" to represent their global reach.
  The world wide web was always just one part of the internet, specifically the portion supported by http. Ftp, email, etc existed then as well, but was not part of the www.
  
  An internet in theory is a network of other computer networks (not single computers). The Internet is the world wide web.
  
  An intranet is a local and private computer network.
  The internet is a network of intranets, or more accurately, a network by which computers of disparate networks can connect.
  Intra, meaning inside or within. Inter, meaning between or among.
  Interdepartmental communication would be communication between departments, while intradepartmental communication would be within a single department.
  The inter vs intra is the difference here.
  
  no, the internet is not the world wide web. www is just one of many services provided on the internet and it can be used on the intranet that is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
  there is a terminology question then if it is still really the world wide web or rather small web, but the fact stays that services provided on http protocol and internet are not the synonyms. same as mcdonald is not asynonym for "a restaurant" even if specific person may not have visited any other restaurant in their life.
  
  Back then, an internet (lower case "i") was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
  That's what I was told too, but I never once encountered anybody who used the small-i "internet" term. I heard "network", or "intranet" or often topology-related things like "the token-ring network". For a network of networks, I'd hear "WAN" or "external network" but never "internet". Maybe that's just me, but I suspect that small-i "internet" was never really a term that was widely used, if at all.
- Cut cables mostly just slow the internet. Probably very few remaining places without plenty of redundancy.

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