Maybe it is possible but it would take a long time and people from different places would have to come together to shut the internet down.Because it takes long,it will be in phases maybe.Like the first phase would destroy powerful sites eg.Microsoft and then phases two would destroy another site.Like that maybe with a time range of about 3-4 years, the internet would be useless and would have to start from scratch.What do you think of this idea?

If you are referring that a single person can destroy the internet ...

Well ...ITS IMPOSSIBLE.

Unless you have some people who would help you in your conquest I dont see how you can destroy a network of more then a million sites.Even with some company I dont think its possible to destroy the internet.But who am I to say.I have never tried it .

Well from what I have seen I can surely tell you that it might take more then 20 generations to destroy something as vast as INTERNET

The internet was first made for the purpose of creating a network in which if one computer went down that the rest would not be affected..but yes it is "possible" to take down the internet. How you ask? DDOS every server running a backbone internet line...this would require enormous amounts of computer power and many computer, about all the worlds computers...So the really logical answer to your question would be no, there is too many variables involved.

This post has been edited by rhinodog8: Apr 25 2008, 07:55 AM

It would be pritty hard, impossible to do on your own, the only way I can think of is to take down each ISP one by one, although this would only be temporary as i'm sure they would be up within minutes.

I would like to see the intenet cut off for a day, I think there would be havock, the internet is becoming more and more important, money and buisinesses are completely, solely dependent on the internet. Just for a day, I think it would be a great eye-opener to what life should be like, but hey, i'm not going to be hypocritical, I use the internet just as much as i'm sure you guys do.

Some people believe that typing Google into Google will 'break' the internet for a split second, these theory's are yet to b testes and if so I've broken the internet loads of times.

The destruction of the internet is not physically possible. The internet is not a tangible object, it consists of many computers connected in a network.
Unless you can destroy or disable every single computer in the world, the "internet" will still exist. Any 2 computers connected together means that there is an "internet"

You could theoretically cripple the internet, though, be removing the main hubs, for example:
http://advice.cio.com/themes/CIO.com/cache...ap_labels_0.pdf
note: not for slow computers.

If you open that PDF, then you can see a big network, and wherever there are many lines coming from one point, that would be what I call a "main hub"

This is a really interesting subject and i have two options

1. Create a virus that can kill all the worlds routers and modems. By the way of firmware hacks

Which would be very difficult, but would render the hardware useless

2. Take it down from an ISP standpoint

By the means of taking down the ASAM, ISAM & DSLAM, ADSL Injectors that provide you with your DSL connection.
But this is harder and near impossible, due to the fact that these DSL devices that provide the Internet connection are isolated in a VPN corporate network.

(I should know, i work for a Telecommunications provider)

Otherwise unless you cut the Submarine cables the cross the ocean, It can't be done

Technically two computers connected together is a network. an intERnet, no , An intRAnet maybe.