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A 75-year old Georgian woman who was scavenging for copper to sell sliced through an underground cable and cut off Internet services to all of neighboring Armenia. Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union.
Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours. Maybe they even talked to each other.
