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Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2025
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When things get dire, the fast and high bandwidth Internet we know will be gone, but a form of slow, intermittent Internet will probably be around; still technically an Internet.