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the-cat-returns<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

But it\u2019s slow.<\/p>\n

I did some digging and found out that the reason why we, as a nation, had little to no access to the internet was because of an anchor.<\/p>\n

Yeah. One anchor from one ship hit one cable and damaged one segment and just like that, a nation lost its connection to the data-stream of constant information that makes the world go \u2018round. We were almost cut off from the world by one anchor.<\/p>\n

Just one anchor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And that is how fragile our modern lives are\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the-cat-returns: But it\u2019s slow. I did some digging and found out that the reason why we, as a nation, had little to no access to the internet was because of an anchor. Yeah. One anchor from one ship hit one cable and damaged one segment and just like that, a nation lost its connection to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video_graphics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-FF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3403,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/04\/02\/dyingregime-a-nation-without-a-heart-but-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":2583,"position":0},"title":"dyingregime: A nation without a\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"April 2, 2011","format":"gallery","excerpt":"dyingregime: A nation without a heart; but it has a pulse.","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tumblr_lj135jx6741qamqu3o1_1280-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2964,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/04\/imanrasheed-sweaty-nation-some-of-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":2583,"position":1},"title":"imanrasheed: \u201cSWEATY NATION\u201d Some of\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 4, 2012","format":"gallery","excerpt":"imanrasheed: \u201cSWEATY NATION\u201d Some of the illustrations I did for the \u2018Dhaa project\u2019 (click), quite some time ago. 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