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Rebuilding Iraq's Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the other-side-of-war dept.

Anselm writes "According to this article at Wired.com, "The war has left Iraq's Internet infrastructure in shambles. Now, a British ISP hopes to fund the reconstruction through sales of domain names ending in .iq." While I have no use for an IQ domain, the article does make me wonder: Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online?"

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  1. SmokingWeedLeadsToALow by ddriver · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .iq

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    I found my inner child, then I got caught abusing it...
  2. yeah let's all mirror the old sites by thilmony · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We can get the content at www.archive.org, and mirror all their webserver content. We are such nice guys.

    Watch out for the pr0n popups I'll add to the stuff I mirror!

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    YES, there is a McDonald's in Hanoi Square.