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The entire internet. >> what were people doing to get online? >> actually using a lot of low tech solutions for hi-tech answers and the big one is dial up. activist groups are providing international calling option. if you have a modem and can connect through a land line and do dial up which is slow, in this case its luxury. they are providing mobile numbers if you have an international calling plan to access an outside number. with that, understand egyptians are scared once they get online they...

Our situation. >> theres word in egypt that internet and mobile phones are working again, but many people still are having trouble connecting. observers say when those lines were cut off it only fueled the dissension. they were still communicating but not by the usual text and tweet. how do you make contact when the internet goes dark? pay attention. logic tells me, gregory, you have to resort to old-fashioned ways. >> old-fashioned. we laugh at it. we go back to dial-up. who still uses dial-up....

Country. >> so you dial a phone. >> a phone number. >> and that connects you to another country thats working. >> correct. and then you just get connected. >> its slow its slow. >> its very slow. >> but it does what you need to work. >> the same thing happened with the blackout in the fall of 2003. cell phones were tough to work and if you had a cordless phone it didnt work but the old analogue phone with the cord, the best thing you could get. >> dont get rid of your landline. >> i dont even kn...

Much of that is down in country. >> its been fascinating trying to get information from our crews in egypt. theyre doing an amazing job. earlier in the day ben was using a very nontraditional way to get the information on to twitter. >> how? >> he was calling to the land line at the international desk, giving her the tweets. he was tweeting by proxy. she would type it into twitter and it couwould come out. we see more and more people encouraging this way to communicate. >> show me the tweet. thi...

Media networks that have been fueling these demonstrations. in cairo, cell phone services have been cut off since last night. vital organizing tools like twitter and facebook and messenger have had major interruptions. with me here, julian york is joining us from cambridge. jilian first to you, our own richard engel are reporting that we are beyond the initial stage of social media helping to unite and communicate these protests. now its out there. anyone can look out their window. so people don...

That broadband is the answer. he envisions a system to send warning signals to peoples homes, so when the government announced it is giving away billions of broadband service to communities, he jumped at the sense. >> that is what broadband connectivity means to rural america, survival. >> reporter: he faces a common dilemma, his company cannot afford all of the broadband in the rural regions it serves. he covers a wide territory in minnesota including the prairie island community which sits nex...

Draw the face of a sad little girl. you can tell shes a girl because shes a weirdly-shaped dress and shes crying. a full 4% of americans dont have access to high-speed internet. because they live in rural areas. let me draw a little horse here. thats a weird tail. hes a deformed horse. he went in for tonsillectomy and since he didnt have insurance they did this to his tail. she might have internet access but its not high-speed. it might be dial-up. yeah. what kind of country are we?

Draw the face of a sad little girl. you can tell shes a girl because shes a weirdly-shaped dress and shes crying. a full 4% of americans dont have access to high-speed internet. because they live in rural areas. let me draw a little horse here. thats a weird tail. hes a deformed horse. he went in for tonsillectomy and since he didnt have insurance they did this to his tail. she might have internet access but its not high-speed. it might be dial-up. yeah. what kind of country are we?

In fact, the republican senators didnt know because it wasnt released. very few people knew appearance that he was criticizing the bill he had no idea what is in the bill. and that is a terrible word. the theme is resist. their theme should be lets get together, and dial-up. lets get together. their theme is resist. it is obstruction. they become obstructionist and the voters happen to like it from the standpoint of running for office. i think it is a terrible theme in terms of getting elected. ...

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