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einsteinsdog | 19:46 Wed 07th Dec 2005 | Technology
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would it be possible for the whole internet to crash?
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theoretically, all the servers connected to the internet could crash at once, yes. but unlikely.

greater chance of happening: your ISPs servers crashing, thus disconnecting you from the internet itself (due to the way it's structured).
21:20 Wed 07th Dec 2005
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A few years ago the whole power network on the east of america got overloaded and crashed , i thought that by analogy it could happen on the net
22:01 Wed 07th Dec 2005
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If it was going to, it would have been on midnight, Dec 31st 1999.
22:58 Wed 07th Dec 2005
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OBonio: it may also happen in 2038 (more likely than 2000 even)
http://maul.deepsky.com/%7Emerovech/2038.html
23:43 Wed 07th Dec 2005
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The DNS servers could certainly crash. Considering how dependent we've become on them, that would be pretty catastrophic.
14:21 Thu 08th Dec 2005

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