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Egypt Coming Back On the 'net

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-back-to-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with the good news that after 5 days of blackout, "Egypt is coming back on-line. Some sites that didn't used to be available and are now back include two telcos: Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat Egypt. Guess that we can't have those IPv4 addresses back after all then."

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  1. Vodafone Egypt by Cimexus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well if Vodafone Egypt is anything like Vodafone Australia, the distinction between the network being 'on' or 'off' will be difficult to spot! :P

  2. I'm Egyptian by mhh91 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they only brought back the internet to make people go home without internet,more people joined the protests because they had nothing better to do anyway now,people are urging others to join the protests via social networking sites I don't think the Egyptian government can do anything about these protests really,other than stepping down,that is

  3. There was a joke circulating around ... by kubis · · Score: 5, Funny

    What are eGyptians without Internet? Gyptians! ;)

  4. One site stayed up. by Animats · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One site that stayed up through all this was the Library of Alexandria, which, among other things, hosts a copy of the Internet Archive. They now have photos up of their supporters surrounding the Library to protect it.

    They stayed up because they have a direct connection to the 10Gb/s FLAG, the Fiber Optic Around the Globe link. That has a cable landing at Alexandria, and the Library is tied in there, without going through a local ISP.