Delete the internet?

Pass the blunt already..

Go destroy root nameservers.

I'm not a network expert, but I've read some books on networking (and penetration testing), so I might be a little help in explaining how the internet works.

Basically, the internet was developed back in the late 1960s by a professor named Leonard Kleinrock. You can think of Leonard Kleinrock as the brains behind the idea of the Internet, as he wanted to find a way to send large amounts of information (he called it Packet Switching, in which you break down large data into smaller pieces of data to prevent lag) through a Wide Area Network (WAN). To do this, he needed to create a connection between his computer (A) and the computer that he wanted to send the data to (B), so he proposed a set of nodes (basically devices connected to each other which then connect to a link and transmit data from two points). Leonard finally got the idea in motion when one of his colleagues, Robert Taylor developed his own network connecting the nodes together, calling it ARPANET.

Up until the early 70s, all of the communication via the Internet was done by the government, primarily the military as a means to easily communicate with their divisions. It wasn't until about 1969 (the year of the Lesbian) that the forefathers of the Internet developed the Interface Message Process (IMP), which was basically like a network switch that helped forward packet data to another device so they could communicate faster.

So now we have our first connection to the Internet, great. What now? Well, the ARPANET that was used to connect devices was too slow, caused packet data loss, and generally had no real standard way of sending any packet data across the Internet. It wasn't until the mid 1970s that Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was created as a standard networking language for packet data. Because of TCP/IP, packet loss was less frequent, connections were faster, and it became more of a commercial success than ARPANET. Around then, we also got Domain Name System (DNS, the naming standard for web sites) and some standard Markup languages for creating sites (HTML, XML, XHTML, etc.).

So where is the Internet located? Everywhere. The Internet is you and me connected to a server, which is then connected to the source of the files, which gets tossed around via Packet Switching to establish a stable connection and prevent data loss and all that mumbo jumbo. If the entire world was effectively cut off of electricity (assuming even the generators failed as well), then presumably we would not have the Internet. The Internet would die. All of its data (which gets archived into many, many, huge servers storing exabytes [1K+ TB] of data) would be stuck forever inside those drives with no way to ever recover them again until electricity was restored and nodes were back up and running.

That's basically the Internet in a nutshell. So, no, one cannot simply delete the Internet, because it is continuously archived, however, it can be turned off. The likelihood of the entire world running out of electricity any time soon is kinda slim, but the consumer level users of the internet are nearing the end of the IPv4 addresses that have can be assigned, so that's why more and more ISPs are offering faster, more secure, IPv6 addresses now.

I'm sure someone with better knowledge of Networking could chime in and add to this, but this is all I've gathered from reading books on Programming and Networking and the like. If you're interested, Leonard Kleinrock's original paper is on the Internet, which details his idea for Packet Switching and nodes.

The internet is for pr0n.

What if our brain are connected in some servers that belongs to the President Of The World, or the Illuminati?

in 1 line, the internet is a network, whant to creat your own internet ? just connect 2 device together, so as long you can connect device together, you have a internet

This is the internet. And this is what happens when it dies.

I have 30,000+ games on my computer, turn it off I don't care

Not sure how to answer.
Reminded me of this xkcd and these vsauce videos.

try typing "google" into google

Kill every human on the world (use some virus). Electricity will die without controll and after ~50-150 years every hard drive will corrode or demagnetize.

This video explain everything

God is in charge of the internet and only Jesus can delete it. But keep in mind, no internet means no steam!

the cloud

similar to that the internet runs in a small server rack next to my desk. but i have some old car batteries as backup power to be safe from short power outages.