Originally Posted by
Blacksheep
The internet is supposed to be based upon a "geodesic" model so that removal of any single node (by a nuclear strike for example) would not disrupt the services elsewhere.
That was the original design when the net was run by the American military.
But redundancy costs money. Now that the net is run by commercial companies for profit they build in just as much or as little redundancy as they think they can make a profit from.