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 In an ironic twist to last week’s story about an entire nation covered by WiFi, the entire nation of Niue was Slashdotted off the Internet. Overwhelming interest in the small country caused the nation’s website to be… um, overwhelmed.
This could be the first DOS in the history of the Internet to take out an entire nation. |
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Photographer and technology critic Ed Steele is the creator and editor of GadgetMadness and has been finding and reviewing the coolest gadgets first since 2003.
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