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Larry Roberts has died
If by "modern internet", you mean TCP/IP, then no. You'd need a circuit-switched network to do that, and those are all obscure/niche networks except for the Public Switched Telephone Network.
Real landlines work even if the power is out.
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Real landlines work even if the power is out.