The Internet was designed by researchers working under contract for the Department of Defense. In the event of war, the Soviet Union could nuke San Francisco and we’d lose access to Berkeley and Stanford, but the rest of the network would still be fully connected. The magnitude 6.7 earthquake that shook Taiwan shook Taiwan the day after Christmas. The ability to reroute traffic through European links, and thus over the Atlantic cable systems, took a few days to get in place. Even now those links are minimally helpful, at least here.”]
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