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[-] frezik 36 points 11 months ago

It took them a long time to get there. As corporate ISPs took over from the government and universities, the Internet got built around a few large pipes rather than several smaller ones. It's cheaper to build and maintain, but more prone to failure.

Some of the redundancy from the old ARPANET is still around in the US. Everywhere else, it mostly got built as above. One ship laying an anchor somewhere they shouldn't has brought entire countries offline.

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