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Breaking: Large Internet failure hits Africa and Asia

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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  • fluidfoundation, on 01/31/2008, -4/+217Those poor poor gold farmers.... ;)
  • Rotzooi, on 01/31/2008, -0/+199O no, how will I reach my Nigerian Prince!? I need to send him $9000 ASAP to receive $10m!
  • icexe, on 01/31/2008, -14/+190OMG!! Its the monster from Cloverfield!!!! We're doomed!!!
  • telegon, on 01/31/2008, -1/+170A boat anchor cut the cable - that's priceless.
  • dogstar0125, on 01/31/2008, -1/+131In unrelated news, internettrafficreport.com reports that, for reasons unknown, spam is down 75% over the past 24 hours.
  • hansk, on 01/31/2008, -6/+128africa has the internet?
  • tommyredcoat, on 01/31/2008, -2/+97Redundancy systems FTW?
  • deeboe, on 01/31/2008, -9/+86"...caused by a cut undersea cable"??? If that is the case, this could be a timely and costly repair!
  • falkonv7l, on 01/31/2008, -2/+77....... in other news Nigerian scams dramatically down!
  • Tripacer9999, on 01/31/2008, -7/+81Wait, i thought the internet was only in the United States!
  • itzdiceman, on 01/31/2008, -8/+77This is why the rest of the world can't have nice things.
  • geekchic, on 01/31/2008, -6/+74This was nothing like a "breaking" story 2 hours and 20 minutes ago when you submitted it.

    The story has been majoring in the tech news for the past 24 hours at the very least.
  • tommyredcoat, on 01/31/2008, -3/+64Or pricey. Just depends how you look at it.
  • stillasleep00, on 01/31/2008, -0/+60I'd like to be the one that tells the captain "Dude, you broke the internet."
  • turbopro, on 01/31/2008, -1/+50Friend, Friend! Send it to me, I'll make sure he gets it!
    signed, Nigerian Prince's personal assistant.
  • whoisme, on 01/31/2008, -7/+51I can see all these company outsourced to India rethinking if they should continue to do so...
  • strafefire, on 01/31/2008, -3/+46FTA: "Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. "

    Of everything in the article, this stuck with me the most...
  • techie4life, on 01/31/2008, -4/+45[citation needed]

    thanks buh bye
  • DurtyJ, on 01/31/2008, -0/+40Looks like we are going to have to go a week without tentacle monsters and gold farming,

    How will the internet cope?
  • Kr1ngle0, on 01/31/2008, -0/+40Cables?
    I thought it was all tubes.
  • dodgejon, on 01/31/2008, -1/+41wait...so if someone wanted to run havok on saveral nations, they could cut underwater cables and cause millions in damages with a boat anchor???
  • romistrub, on 01/31/2008, -1/+40Apparently I don't understand The Internet very well... Shouldn't this outage still allow Asian/Middle-Eastern users to access Asian/Middle-Eastern servers? I would suspect that most of what they use is still located locally. At least that would make sense to me.
  • inactive, on 01/31/2008, -4/+42Yay I can play Starcraft without all those Koreans on!!! :)
  • geekchick82, on 02/01/2008, -1/+36I don't know if I understood that right, but it reminds me of when we finally got a color monitor in place of the old b/w one for our computer, and all my mom was concerned about was whether the new screen would still show her yahoo mail.
  • AshamedAmerican, on 01/31/2008, -2/+36SkyNet?
  • Slovenian6474, on 01/31/2008, -3/+33Man, is this what the RIAA has come to?
  • bluenullity, on 01/31/2008, -1/+28Digg is slow, news at 11...12... no wait tomorrow at 11.
  • Chompy, on 01/31/2008, -0/+27Midsize cargo vessel of unknown registry: $950,000
    3-ton anchor: $20,000
    Slowing the internet way down for 950,000,000 people: priceless.
  • mysedai, on 01/31/2008, -1/+28We blame you :p
  • rizon, on 01/31/2008, -0/+24You can, it will just be slower. As stated in the article, the speeds were just reduced, albeit by a lot.
  • mstump, on 01/31/2008, -6/+30I blame the under-30 crowd.
  • Jereso, on 01/31/2008, -2/+21You have no good taste. Or you are very susceptible to motion sickness.
  • Goodbyeworld, on 01/31/2008, -1/+20Researchers say that 84.5% of statistics are made up on the spot.
  • Tiak, on 01/31/2008, -0/+19Networks don't always share information at every possible junction, and as such it is entirely possible that the various portions of internet in these regions are cut off from each other, but for the most part you're right about their ability to access it... I'm not so sure about how local the services they use are though.
  • inactive, on 01/31/2008, -9/+28This just in: Silly Penis.
  • DrDigg, on 01/31/2008, -1/+19with fricken lazers
  • romistrub, on 01/31/2008, -1/+19... when did Digg become YouTube?
  • capiCrimm, on 02/01/2008, -2/+20you mean percent of population addicted to MMORPG's.
  • mutwirik, on 01/31/2008, -7/+25I can still access Digg!
  • FadieZ, on 01/31/2008, -1/+19My dad just called from Dubai. Apparently his Internet browser works but MSN doesn't.
  • Tiak, on 01/31/2008, -1/+19"here is a piece from the research that proves what i am saying:"

    I believe you're having a bit of trouble with the English language, allow me to offer my assistance.

    research - a diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.

    prove - to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument:
  • tommyredcoat, on 01/31/2008, -0/+17Sharks
  • Zdax, on 01/31/2008, -0/+17I propose...tubes.
  • mufasa, on 01/31/2008, -0/+16Yeah, this reminds me of something that happened late '07, a fire in a tunnel close to Oslo Central Station, a few cables cut in that one tunnel caused the whole train system in most of southern Norway to collapse for over a day, along with the train company's website and support phone.
  • Slovenian6474, on 01/31/2008, -3/+19Ya, those anchors cost a lot.
  • legoalert33, on 01/31/2008, -1/+17the ship is weighed down by the massiveness of the internet
  • goofygarber, on 02/01/2008, -0/+16In other news, the 4 businesses with internet in Africa are PISSED! The 200,000 email scammers in internet cafe's are just displeased.
  • Tiak, on 01/31/2008, -1/+16Japan and Korea were relatively unaffected. The supply of tentacle-monsters and gold farming remains undamaged.
  • romistrub, on 01/31/2008, -1/+16!!!
  • xXGeechXx, on 01/31/2008, -1/+16There may never be a better time to play Starcraft
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