cnn.com — Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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dulymachineJan 31, 2008
It's amazing when you stop to think about how deep our dependency on tech communications goes. One day of heavy trading could topple the affected countries' economies.
soulcatcher78Jan 31, 2008
oops!?! How long before someone claims that this was an act of economic terrorism or was in some way aimed at crippling the affected countries?
potterboyJan 31, 2008
Oh... I guess I wasn't supposed to unplug that cable. Sorry.
miketrinJan 31, 2008
This doesn't make sense. I thought the internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack.
dreadpirateFeb 1, 2008
And guess what? The internet as a whole is still working! Just portions of it are offline due to a failure in various critical infrastructureNever mind the "Internet is designed to survive a nuclear attack" thing is only a myth - <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#The_ARPANET_a">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#The_ARPANET_a</a> ...