If they internet were to not work for the period of one year, what would happen? How many people would die? (A genuine question for anyone who feels up to task)
A route to one of our subdomains was not working at our hosting provider. It affected our application because we relied upon the subdomain as a cache between S3. Pages in the application would fail when cache was reloaded.
Never mind our application, but there are some interesting "what ifs" out there, like if the route for some major players were to suddenly stop working...or, perhaps similar to our app, some minor routes failed but major sites relied upon them.
Just your friendly old neighbour NSA installing a new backdoor on one of the backbones, apologies for the slight hiccup you might experience, blame it on your isp