A bit of irony is that the internet was first designed as a concept for a network that might survive a nuclear attack.
Take out a few cable landings and while the L3 network might survive, most of the apps would not.
Take out a few cable landings and while the L3 network might survive, most of the apps would not.
When will this myth die? The Internet was designed as an academic computer network. DARPA provided funding and, yes, very early packet switch-network research was inspired by the desire to maintain communications in wartime, but the first four network nodes were Utah, USC, Stanford, and UCSB. Not NSA, CIA, Pentagon, and USNO.
Take out a few cable landings and you'll lose a big part of the web.
But the Internet will still work fine.