Slobodan Markovic on Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:28:30 +0200 |
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Syndicate: Net connections tmhwked |
I'm currently captured in one absolutely unreal situation... I'm sitting in front of my computer, listening to Radiohead's OK Computer (currently song number 10: No Suprises) and trying to write a piece of e-mail... while outside, I can hear very loud detonations and heavy anti-aircraft gun fire. Right now... I feel like I'm in the middle of Terminator 2's intro scene (when Linda Hamilton is explaining the war between humans and the machines). The sky is burning, the planes are flying over... Anyway, I would like to say a few words about the Internet in Yugoslavia in these trouble days... First of all, some reliable ground Internet connections are broken. When second bridge in Novi Sad went down, one good Internet connection (or to say: fiber-optic cable) was broken. Second, when NATO devastated one building in the very centre of Belgrade, one Belgrade-based ISP's (bits.net) computer equipment was totally destroyed. Third, there are at least two VSAT station equipped ISP's in Belgrade (eunet.yu and beotel.yu). Only in case of total devastation of Serbian Telecom infrastructure in Belgrade, this outlet will become unusable (as well as regular phone lines). Fourth, Radio B-92's Internet section (Opennet) went down together with the radio station. Radio B-92's "cybeRex New Media Lab" (cr.opennet.org) is closed and all running (Internet related) projects are put on-hold (for an uncertain time period) or completely cancelled. ... These were only the things I could remember while typing this text. During the following week, I will try to dig some more reliable and precise information about the Internet in Yugoslavia. Greetings, Slobodan Markovic | http://solair.eunet.yu/~twiddle Internodium Project | http://www.internodium.org.yu ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress