bitcoin if the internet shuts down

Like Bitcoin, the Internet was designed for maximum surviv­ability. It has no center. Any computer in the world running the Internet’s proto­cols, which are themselves open source software that can connect to any other computer doing the same thing is ‘on the Internet’. It may not have access to every other computer on the Internet, but it really isn’t possible for the whole Internet to go down unless no computer in the world is running at all. read the entire article at swanbitcoin.com