The earthquake off the coast of Taiwan last week effected many Asian Internet users, but many found a way around the mess
By: Captain Maverick
Published: Jan 3, 2007
Updated: Sep 2, 2010
Many parts of Asia faced a major Internet meltdown last week due to the earthquake off the coast of Taiwan. But this did not stop the more savvy computer users which found some way to work around the problem.
Those that knew how to set up their computers to detour around the failure connected directly to servers located in the United States. Others used programs such as Web2Mail to retrieve content from the internet sites and deliver it to them by email. This avoided the need to stick by the computer during the long wait times. Still others found a way to sneak in behind corporate computers and saw high-speed access restored.
Most would say that this incident was a once-in-100-years event, while others say that it could never happen, and that the Asian meltdown was never a complete outage. A division of the National Science Foundation initiative, GENI seeks to design and test architectures for a next-generation World Wide Web from the ground up. Vinton Cerf, a founder of the original Internet, will be one of its advisers.
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