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Message: [QUOTE="Techmeme, post: 8657"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-eruption'][IMG]http://www.techmeme.com/251002/i11.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://www.techmeme.com/251002/p11#a251002p11'][IMG]http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png[/IMG][/URL] Samanth Subramanian / [URL='http://www.theguardian.com/']The Guardian[/URL]: [B][URL='https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-eruption']A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world[/URL][/B] — A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world - and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life [/QUOTE]