When Samuel Morse sent the first signals from Baltimore to Washington in 1844, he chose a biblical message: "What hath God wrought?", he asked, as if he wanted to avoid that anyone would call this innovation an evil creation.

Today, more than 160 years later, a network of cables spans the world. Instead of coded short messages, data of full libraries and digitalized phone calls (VoIP) rushes from continent to continent. Sea-cables, so-called backbone-connections, play an important role.

Near the Egyptian coastal city Alexandria a ship destroyed one of those backbone-connections with its anker on last Thursday. In Egypt the internet performance declined about 30% of its regular capability. The bourse had to stop trading and airports could not issue tickets anymore.

Read the full story: New York Times

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