yeah i was around in the BBS days, and yes the internet is durable. but going back to the functional level of the '90s seems like a big cluster to me. but it would better than nothing
Big cluster, yes. But the root point of this thread is that
Bitcoin would not be greatly affected by that. Neither would email. But Facebook, Viop and my Steam games would be completely useless. Likely Twitter and the other high speed social networks, even if they deal in short fits of text. Simply because they deal with so much text headed towards one single choke point.
Bitcoin does not have a choke point as long as the individual user can get
any bandwidth.
Miners would be screwed, however, because any blocks they mine would take too long to propogate.