Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? - eviltoast

Or am I the only one remembering this opinion? I felt like it was common for people to say that the internet couldn’t be taken down, or censored or whatever. This has obviously been proven false with the Great Firewall of China, and of Russia’s latest attempts of completely disconnecting from the global internet. Where did this idea come from?

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Mind you that a lotmof that no longer works

    In the past traffic could be routed over whatever. If one node went down, the traffic would go over another

    Now we have a few very fast backbones and if even one goes down bye bye internet

    What you have cached locally or on your doesn’t count because it’s only that which you’ve seen before.