BANGKOK: It was a tsunami for the digital age, a collapse of the virtual world that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan.
People woke Wednesday to find themselves without e-mail or the Internet and, in some cases, without telephone connections, cut off from the real world around them.
The earthquake ruptured two of the undersea cables that are part of a communications fretwork that circles the globe.
Coming on the second anniversary of the Asian tsunami that took 230,000 lives, it was a reminder of the world’s increasing dependence on communications technology.
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