zarx on 08 April 2011
| highwaystar101 said: I know that I'm probably wrong, but doesn't the internet break up a single piece of information, send it along many routes and then reform the information at the end? I thought that it was done this way so that one cable being broken shouldn't affect the internet, and that was one of the main features of it's structure. |
as I understand it yes but in this case there was only one cable connecting a vast network to the rest of the internet, quite an oversight for whatever telcos were responsible...
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