Now, before we start getting into a war over the internet being impossible to take down, trust me, it can be taken down. The way the internet, in basic, finds itself is via the DNS. There are 17 root DNS servers, which are generally located in different servers. If those 17 root DNS servers went out, the internet would not be able to find itself, effectively crippling it. That is the most likely way the internet could go "down".
So, what would you do if the internet went down?
I would pull out my Sega. This could be a while.
If the situation that I spoke of above actually happened, I have all of the sites I have ever visited cached onto my local DNS server, so I would be good unless the major internet backbones went out too. Then we would be in trouble.
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