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Egypt's Internet still offline, a day later

Editor's note: This story was updated many times as the story evolved Friday. Please see updates below and click here for a more recent story on the situation.

Egypt has gone offline.

In a stunning development unprecedented in the modern history of the Internet, a country of more than 80 million people has found itself almost entirely disconnected from the rest of the world.

The near-disconnection--at least one Internet provider is still online--comes after days of street protests demanding an end to nearly three decades of autocratic rule by President Hosni Mubarak. Those followed this month's revolution in … Read more