Personally to this day I have never agreed to the possibility of the Internet being destroyed alltogether however I do agree that the ever evolving hackers may invent and unleash a virus that may jam the connections thus rendering the Internet unusable(though it cant last longer than a few mins hopefully) If hackers are evolving smarter ways of blocking the traffic altogether or part of it, the counter actions being taken by security administrators can also not be undermined and so is the belief that Internet can be stopped completely. The other way would be to take one hosting area at a time and destroy it thereby blocking some of the traffic. God forbid if such a thing were to happen anyhow it would impact all of our lives negatively for sure some way or the other so lets hope the day never comes.

I don't think it's possible. BUT, it's possible to prevent people from accessing it... Destroying it altogether? I don't think so. I don't think every single web server will go down just like that. The world is a wide place... Unless something happens like a world-wide black out or some weird natural phenomenon... The internet will vanish for some time, but I don't think it will be gone forever.

hey bro anything is possible.. regardless of what steps you have to go thru to be able to pull something like this.. it is possible.

True. I'd have to agree that it is possible to destroy the Internet, temporarily or permanently, however, I doubt any of it is actually feasible at the moment. Consider these:

1. EM pulses - from a nearby star, the earth's core or global surface sources
2. War - Nuclear abomination on key locations
3. Solar Activity - The sun begins aging further into a red giant
4. Apocalypse - whatever it is

Well, all those are really possible but I doubt any human, or group of humans, can actually orchestrate such events for the sole purpose of destroying the Internet, without any massive casualty.

Yes, I do have an ill mind at times. No, I don't act on all of my mind's whims, thank you.

There is no way to truly "destroy" the internet. You can completely and utterly ruin it but unless you go to all the ISPs in the world and smash their computers and cut all their phone lines, you can't destroy the internet.

The only way I have ever thought of that could ever destory the internet would be to infect and control all of the unprotected computers and then use them to DDOS more powerful computers to the point where their owners dump the hard drive and reinstall. Then, you take over with the default passwords and keep doing this until every computer on the internet is under your control. Then you have ever computer DDOS every other computer until the networks get so clogged that every site crumbles and falls.

A better way is just to DDOS all the major search engines (Google, AltaVista, Ask.com, Dogpile, etc.) and shut down the major sites (e.g. MySpace, GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Miniclip, etc.) to make the internet utterly boring and useless. Then, after people started to realize the internet couldn't do anything, they would all stop using it and no one would make any money and the internet would cease to exist.

However, even if you collapsed the internet in some fiendishly advanced way that no one expected and all the ISPs either gave up or went into bankruptcy and dissapeared, all the techies and geeks and hackers in the world would start engineering their own "mini-internets" that would eventually spread through the world. After all, it's boring beinga hacker with nothing to do.

interesting topic... i remember the days without mobiles and the internet. they were still rather livable of course, and although it would impact the world massively if the internet were to fall, we'd get used to it over time, reverting back to older methods of communication.

the destruction of the internet itself doesn't seem like its impossible, though it does appear to be an extremely hard task to accomplish. you'd have to take out so many key internet providing points and even then i'm sure there are some secret facilities which accommodate for say, government or military communication. on the other hand, if the internet was used against itself to block/damage communication ports the idea doesnt seem so far fetched. the idea people have brought up about blocking access of overloading data seems like more of a rational idea for a hacker/retard trying to destroy the internet.

anything is possible, but i honestly don't think i'll ever see something like this happening for a long time to come. even then, i'm sure we'll other means of effective communication apart from the internet to keep us going on a daily basis.

Whoever did this would be killed quickly. but maybe it would do us all good. We would be more active and all. but it would be awfully boring. lets just keep it like it is

I think it is pretty much impossible to destroy the internet. Just think of how many web servers there are in 1 country, much less the whole world? And even so, it is so easy to create a web server and another one could be created easily while you are trying to take down 1. The internet is a major part of our lives, not only economically but also academically. There are so many things such as tutorials, e-commerce going on in today's websites. Taking them down would be drastic, the internet is such a big place, it would be very difficult to explore the whole internet using our entire lifespan much less destroy it

I think this would be possible but highly unlikely. There should be a world wide alliance of digital terrorism or something like that. Lots of people to crash all the big servers in the world and none of them failing in that task. And seriously I don´t think there are so many people who hate Internet... I mean. not enough to do this. And anyway, there would be really difficult for them to communicate and set the attack at the very same time without using internet... so I guess people who would do that, will never want to destroy Internet. I mean, most people that hate Internet in the world is supposed to not use it very much... so... ¿how could they hack anything without even knowing how to search on google?

Not very easy uh? By the way, I haven´t heard about digital doomsday but its only name sounds scary.