Egypt closes down last ISP inspiring US technos to invent alt Internet
FAC
January 31, 2011
Egypt today closed down the country’s last working internet service–the ISP that provided technological services to aviation, banking and financial sectors in the country and the American University in Cairo–according to the Wall Street Journal’s Dispatches blog. Egypt’s actions have inspired US technology bloggers to ponder what to do in the event the US government threw the hypothetical (or maybe not so hypothetical) kill switch. PC World has an Internet hotwiring roundup–including links to FidoNet,