The Internet was funded so this couldnt happen. The government asked AT&T to built a fault tolerant network, and AT&T didn't see the short term profitability o

The Internet was funded so this couldnt happen. The government asked AT&T to built a fault tolerant network, and AT&T didn't see the short term profitability or point or think it was possible. They didnt even bid the job. The government was worried that major cities could be taken off the map, disconnecting the coasts. I would say the closest thing to the entire internet crashing was 1969. 1964 - Paul Baran published On Distributed Communications: Introduction to Distributed Communications Network, which discussed packet switching networks. It also outlined the concept of fault tolerance, or the fact that there is no one computer responsible for the entirety of the internet. If one computer fails, the internet continues. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand... 1968 - Lawrence Roberts and DARPA came to a final plan and set of specifications for ARPANET, and released a request for quotation, that BBN won, which was basically a contract to produce the routers. It should be noted that larger companies including ATT did not even bid on the contract, saying such a network was impossible. 1969 - Four nodes were added to ARAPANET, including UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of UTAH. It should be noted that the first connection, between UCLA and Stanford, caused the Stanford computer to crash after typing l and o of login