"internet shut down" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English
Example: Due to a technical glitch, the internet shut down for the entire office, causing a delay in completing important tasks.
Many online file-sharing services had closed shortly after Napster, which popularized file sharing over the Internet, shut down in 2001 after a music industry lawsuit.
Where I come from, people battle for the right to criticise politicians and speak out against the government without having their posts deleted, their Internet shut down, or being put under house arrest.
A virus born in the depth of the Internet shut down Google Street View and kicked millions of users out of their routine lives.
Since 2011, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Syria witnessed Internet shut downs.
The government also crippled the opposition's communications, blocking Gmail, slowing the Internet, shutting down text messaging services and jamming satellite television channels.
The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it had taken itself off the Internet, shutting down public access to its databases on environmental hazards and cutting itself off from e-mail, after a lawmaker complained on his own Web site that the agency's computers were sitting ducks for hackers.
The singer frequently talks about the Internet's stifling effect on community and creativity and even suggested to U.K. paper The Sun that the Internet be shut down for five years to spark better quality art and music.
Invariably, when a card is processed, the phone line clogs, the modem freezes, the Internet shuts down and laptops are temporarily left in a lurch.
For seventy-five minuthe, the Internet was shut down altogether.
The Internet is shut down today: Do we get more done or less?
If the Internet gets shut down, rebels may try to access information in ways easier to track.
