One Day Without Internet Due to Internet Outage – A Girl’s Frustration in Egypt

Here is the Frustration of an Egyptian Girl written in her blog after the mass internet outages in Egypt.

Almost a year ago Egypt lived a day without the internet for the first time in years…

Last Friday was the second time… except that 3 undersea cables were cut this time not only one, causing a countrywide massive Internet outage in Egypt and other Arab countries from Libya to Saudi Arabia…

When the internet outage occurred back in January, I remember I had this feeling of being digitally in darkness, feeling like I am being isolated from the world, although I wasn’t… and that day because the thoughts kept invading me on how much I have become accustomed to the internet usage in my life, I made a pledge to reduce my internet usage, and to start by reducing only one day, which supposedly was every Friday…

However, when this month’s outage occurred I realized that I completely failed to fulfill my promise to myself… I mean… I actually tried to do it for some time, and at times I extended it to be for a few days through never accessing the internet while on a real vacation trip (outside or inside Egypt)… and I kinda followed it at times, at first… but then… eventually I didn’t…

Continue to her Blog…

Here are Links for Internet Outage News and Updates:
Labnol
Google
Yahoo
Star Telegram

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