OrionWorks wrote:
> It is surprising how fragile modern society is.
>
On the other hand, the Internet was originally designed to survive outages
and attacks either of a natural or geopolitical political nature. As I'm
sure you well know the system was designed to reroute it's messages around
the damaged areas.
Good point. Come to think of it, it should not even have a "network
backbone," but it does. That was not part of the original plan.
The fact that you're getting messages (albeit not as quickly as you
would like) proves that the system appears to have survived the attack.
I am fine, but I cannot use the Internet effectively. I cannot upload a
revised paper Steve Krivit just sent me. It took several minutes to
download here. This works about as fast as dial up modem with frequent
timeouts. I am not doing anything important, but if I were a government
relief worker trying to send vital messages, this performance would be a
serious problem.
Perhaps this is just be my ISP making excuses about a technical glitch? I
doubt it. Robert Cringley in looking into it, to find out if the slowdown
is widespread in the Southeast and Gulf region.
- Jed
