The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

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    10 months ago

    At that point, the EMP would wipe out some important components of the Internet as well as overloading whatever is not directly affected.

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      10 months ago

      LOL, the internet was invented specifically to route communications around nuclear bomb blasts.

      You got me wondering though, things have changed a lot since DARPANET. Taking out Amazon US-EAST-1 would leave a massive hole in the internet.