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The Space Race for Worldwide Internet

Bob Larson writes Technology is Hip coluumn via 50 Plus Marketplace News for northern Colorado seniors

A 75-year-old woman, who lived outside the Georgian capitol of Tbilisi hoped to dig up copper wiring to sell for scrap. Instead, she cut through a fiber-optic cable and stopped communications to millions of people in neighboring Armenia staring at blank screens for 12 hours. She had cut off their country’s Internet. The 2011 incident …

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