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The whole idea of the Internet (originally 'ARPANET' or 'DARPANET' -'Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network') was designed so that if whole areas wer

The whole idea of the Internet (originally 'ARPANET' or 'DARPANET' -'Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network') was designed so that if whole areas were destroyed in a nuclear war, the system would rout around the 'dead area' and continue working. Shut down the US networks - and the rest of the world would continue normally and disregard the US as a 'dead area'.

jsjddbbwj 7y ago
The rest of the world will surely continue normally once Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc are down, sure.
- kdtsh 7y ago
  There’s ‘normally’ and ‘normally’. There might not be as much English-language content, but the Internet exists outside of FAANG.