{"id":1582,"date":"2008-02-05T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/02\/05\/analyzing-the-internet-collapse\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"analyzing-the-internet-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/02\/05\/analyzing-the-internet-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing the Internet Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1956\">ABC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the Internet suddenly collapsed early last Wednesday across the Middle East and into India, it provided a stark reminder of how the Net&#8217;s virtual spaces can still be held hostage to real-world events.<\/p>\n<p>Almost simultaneously, two separate undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Europe with Egypt, and eventually with the Middle East and India, were cut. The precise cause remains unknown: experts initially said that ships&#8217; anchors, dragged by stormy weather across the sea floor, were the most likely culprit, but Egyptian authorities have said that no ships were in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the cause, the effects were immediate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC News: When the Internet suddenly collapsed early last Wednesday across the Middle East and into India, it provided a stark reminder of how the Net&#8217;s virtual spaces can still be held hostage to real-world events. Almost simultaneously, two separate undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Europe with Egypt, and eventually with the Middle East and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}