Well what I really think is that SPAM could destroy the internet, just try to umagine internet with no emails sounds weird I know but it could happen, If you have ever received thousands of spams per day, and have found an effective way to prevent them from destroying your inbox, please post your ideas here.I have four main e-mail accounts. The main one is flooded with tons of spam everyday, it has reached 5,000 messages, I never check it. On the other hand, the other is always clean, I never receive spam. It's the one only my friends know. but I'm afraid that someday I open them and find "READ ME" from pokhñklp@uyeopjuk.com

This topic actually reminded me of a nice GIF image showing the message "Downloading the internet" .. " Disk space not enough" !!!

It would be really a himalayan task to destroy the internet ., if one thinks ,he has to . ..
Maybe one day, all human race might come to an end, with the internet also eventually getting destroyed..
Or, like in the terminator 3 movie, there might be a time when a particular machine gets control over all others , and maybe, gives a thought of self terminating itself, and all computers in the world.. That would be the James Cameroon way to look at this question..

But apart from it, in the present day trend, i guess it is more than impossible to do it.. For one simple reason,, the destroyer would not even have a clue of where to start , and how to go about his attack. Maybe, he can affect the way it works , for a period of time.. But that too would be restricted to a period of time with the power of Internet.

We , could of course argue by saying

"Where there is a will, there is a way !!!"

After watching sci fi movies , like Terminator, matrix triologies, we could expect anything to happen to us in the future !!! But, if common sense prevails, Internet is immortal, as far as i am concerned .. .

that would be really not cool.. no internet equals no civilization.

i think its possible but,no one has figured out how yet and one day someone might take the internet hostage but why are you wondering anyway?

Maybe there's a switch located deep in the white house that shuts off the internet

Yes, it is possible to take down the Internet. I don't think it will be permanently, and even if it was possible, I think it would only be the HTTP protocol being taken down, unless there is sufficient bandwidth, etc.

First of all, there would only be 1 server on the Internet. All of the routers will point to this server, and this server will contain all the HTTP protocol data on it.

Once all of the servers are removed from the Internet, everyone will try to connect to this 1 server. Most likely and almost frequently, it will result in a system crash because of over bandwidth.

In the system crash, disconnect power to this server and smash it to bits.

Therefore, the only remaining Internet would be SMTP (email), Telnet, Gopher and the, obviously, Filesystem protocols.

It is just a theory, and it is realistic. Good luck on destroying the Internet, you'll need it.

or they cause a computer system unable to be used because when they go on, they implant a virus that makes their computer only do one action. Calculate Pi

Exploding all cables connections over the world it's a good start.
so easily xD

No offense but I think your post is very funny.

First of all, there is NO single server that "contains" or controls the Internet. The Internet is just like any other network. However, it is special in the sense that it is the network of all networks which means that all the networks (publicly accessible) around the globe actually constitutes the Internet.

And.. it is virtually impossible to take down the whole Internet because doing that means that you have to take down:
1. each and every node connected to the Internet
2. each and every wide-area network connected to the Internet which implies that
3. you take down each and every local-area network that constitutes the WANs.

Simply think of destroying the Internet like destroying the Earth. Cyberspace is actually "vast", just like real space is.

HTTP, SMTP, Gopher, etc. are protocols right? It means that these protocols are simply "rules of communication" over networks, PCs, and even intra-PC communication.

The point is... Killing the Internet is not like killing protocols like HTTP, etc. You have to bring down the servers like web servers, FTP servers, etc.

I would just like to point out these things... No offense.



I think inducing an electromagnetic field so strong that it screws up the circuitry of electronic devices by inducing charges would be a better solution.