Fuddland

Okay, I know they don’t really want people to access certain websites, but really: causing an undersea-earthquake to sever fibre-optic cables that deliver non-China-based sites is a bit much.

Internet access has been mind-crushingly slow — think pre-28.8bps-modem days, if you can imagine such speeds. It’d have been quicker for someone abroad to print out the pages and then hand-deliver them by bicycle. Thankfully, because so many big businesses were affected, repairs have been given the utmost urgency, and things are getting back to normal after initial worries that repairs “could take months”.

Interestingly, I’ve searched a few news sources from the UK and haven’t found much fuss being made about it from abroad. Did it make the front pages anywhere?

#1

mrtn | 2007 / 01 / 01 – 10:56

hey dude. happy (western) new year!

the register had a small piece about it. also it was mentioned in the bank’s internal “world events” email - i suspect only because of the effect on asian markets…

#2

susannah | 2007 / 01 / 01 – 23:29

Yeah… It didn’t really affect things over here at all, so no one really paid any attention.

#3

Daisy | 2007 / 01 / 03 – 03:10

It didn’t happen in England (and I mean England, not the UK) or the US so nope, it didn’t merit much coverage.

Many congratulations on the contract!

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