Originally Posted by joe It's not going to collapse since the internet is not running from one datacentre. If there is an overload in one specific cable it won't affect the whole internet and even this is very unlikely as it is.

Exactly... to a user who isn't web savvy it is believable.

However we know nothing stands still and technology is always moving forward. I think it's very unlikely the Internet will collapse. We aren't using the same exchanges, cables, datacentres and the like. As technology evolves we will be able to handle high traffic/high load situations a lot better.