If so - where is it? Also, what would happen if someone accidently turned the plug off?
2006-09-25 07:58:16 · 12 answers · asked by tajno1 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
the internet is ran from about milliion servers worldwide.
there is large data processing centres located in london, edinburgh(uk), new york(america) etc.. but even if these where unplugged it would transfer the data to backup system.
there is no way to turn the internet off its impossible.
2006-09-25 08:02:16 · answer #1 · answered by Paultech 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The internet can be seriously affected by bottlenecking but to take it down is somewhat more complex but by no means impossible.
For example last year (i think, may have been one before) an earth quake damaged a main traffic cable near Pakistan somewhere. The result was a week of lag issues with online gaming globally, not because the majority of them were using theat pipe for their data transfer but because of the knock on effect of re-routed traffic placing heavier loads everywhere else. Normally web browsing was less affected due to smaller load times and data size.
The backbone of the browsers net is basically DNS, DNS servers talk to the servers run by these 12 organisations:
A - VeriSign Global Registry Services
B - Information Sciences Institute
C - Cogent Communications
D - University of Maryland
E - NASA Ames Research Center
F - Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
G - U.S. DOD Network Information Center
H - U.S. Army Research Lab
I - Autonomica/NORDUnet
J - VeriSign Global Registry Services
K - RIPE NCC
L - ICANN
M - WIDE Project
Their server farms (there are multiple sites per organisations) give out the info for domain names to enable your request to be translated into an IP address so it can be forwarded to its destination. These name servers don't process or route any traffic they just tell other DNS servers where to send it, DNS servers also remember requests from previous times to they don't have to ask twice.
This is a very simplistic description check source for more detail.
2006-09-25 08:59:38 · answer #2 · answered by The Pirate Captain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't. It was originally the concept of the Department of Defense of the U.S. and its intent was that there should be some system of communication that couldn't be disrupted by any attack, even an atomic one. The Arpanet was the result, and it was shortly thereafter divided into two domains: military and public, each entirely separate from the other. The entire concept is based on a multitude of servers and computers interacting such that the net can never be entirely destroyed. The public portion of Arpanet became the Internet which, by the way, is defined as the computers which are interlinked through and by an electronic medium.
2006-09-25 08:04:49 · answer #3 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 'topology' of the internet originally was run from one main server and routing system - but now it's a massive backbone of servers, switches and routing between domains.
No-one can really pull the 'plug' by accident but parts of it can become detached but usually, when that happens, another route is usually found and 'traffic' goes that way until the original route returns.
It can also become crippled too - plenty of info on the www about all of this - and try Wiki
2006-09-25 08:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Yagowra Shakaboom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, thats lame! Think about it, when you type in an address in the address bar, you are telling your computer to link to that server. The Internet is just the road your computer takes to get there.
2006-09-25 08:07:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the clue is in the name:
internet = interconnected networks
to have a network you need at least 2 pcs.
the internet is made up primarily of a strong internet backbone (normally government owned) in each country, with tens of thousands (probably more) of servers attached to that backbone which allows all computers in a country to access and be accessed by computers internationally.
you can read more (with diagrams) at this page:
http://www.grc.com/dos/theinternet.htm
2006-09-25 08:02:20 · answer #6 · answered by piquet 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
im assuming that you're operating off of a router. if so turn off the router, unplug all cables after the router has effectively grew to change into off, wait 15 2d. then plug in each and each of the cables again. Reboot router. If that would not help then i advise turning abode windows firewall off. I comprehend that you already suggested that you grew to change into your firewall off, yet you would have grew to change into off your type firewall (norton, ect.) and abode windows firewall has similarities yet will nevertheless stay on. in case you probably did turn off abode windows firewall and this nevertheless would not help then i'm sorry that i could not were of added help.
2016-11-23 21:02:13 · answer #7 · answered by rousselle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are thousands if not millions of machines that serve up webpages and other services over the internet.
2006-09-25 08:03:55 · answer #8 · answered by TheBank 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there are millions of them!
Check out the history of the ARPA Net Google.
2006-09-25 08:03:40 · answer #9 · answered by The Lone Gunman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it all runs from the PC in my basement, lol.
2006-09-25 08:05:59 · answer #10 · answered by C-Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋