"... we’re all expecting the internet to go down at a certain point"
We are?
I'm not. The Internet is far too integrated into too many things to be intentionally taken down by some cabal of Deep State operatives. If they even had the theoretical power to do so, which I doubt.
The Internet has been designed to stay up and route around failure.
I do not expect it to go down. The only feasible was to do that would be take take the entire electric grid down, I suspect.
A huge number of deaths would result from that, obviously.