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Think of the internet like a metropolitan sprawl, and data pathways like roads. If you hit a single intersection (a router,) you do some damage. if you hit a house (a user node,) you do little to no damage to the entire thing. If you program all the houses to start spewing cars onto the road (NIMDA) then you clog it up.
if you had the major backbone companies go bankrupt, the internet would become fragmented into regions, with traffic betrween regions traveling very slowly throught normal lines.
it's like if you disabled the entire x80 highway system (and 85 and 101) in the bay area. You could GET somewhere, just not very fast.
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