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Egypt Leaves the Internet (Renesys blog)

Egypt Leaves the Internet (Renesys blog)

Posted Jan 29, 2011 21:43 UTC (Sat) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Egypt Leaves the Internet (Renesys blog) by Cyberax
Parent article: Egypt Leaves the Internet (Renesys blog)

Tell us more about that underwater cable! Sounds like a remarkable story.

I too was involved in FidoNet but almost all ran over modem lines which would have been even easier to shut down than the Internet of today. Also, it was a store-and-forward network whichs is unfair to compare to a packet-switching network.


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