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Behind the Scenes at the Internet
Andrew Blum
ISBN: | 9780670918980 |
Publisher: | Viking Adult |
Published: | 7 June, 2012 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Behind the Scenes at the Internet
Andrew Blum
You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen? In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian authorities simply switched off 70% of the country's internet connections in an attempt to quell a revolution. In 2009, a squirrel chewed through...
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