[CJ Wolf]

The whole internet being down was my train of throught as well."

Doubt it. It was designed to handle things like this. However, it might take out some areas and leave black holes.

[MamaDearest]

It would, however, serve its purpose of causing confusion and mayhem.

[SCR1]

There are only a handful of NAPs, take them down and the internet is toast.

"In the United States, a network access point (NAP) is one of several
major Internet interconnection points that serve to tie all the
Internet access providers together so that, for example, an AT&T user
in Portland, Oregon can reach the Web site of a Bell South customer
in Miami, Florida. Originally, four NAPs

- in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco -

were created and supported by the National Science Foundation as part
of the transition from the original U.S. government-financed Internet
to a commercially operated Internet. Since that time, several new
NAPs have arrived, including WorldCom's "MAE West" site in San Jose,
California and ICS Network Systems' "Big East." -."