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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 it's 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 will be traced or their ip address will be seen through. they are using web blocking software. low...

Our situation. >> there's 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. i see it on commercials. dial-up is the way to go. right now they're in the country where they shu...

Country. >> so you dial a phone. >> a phone number. >> and that connects you to another country that's working. >> correct. and then you just get connected. >> it's slow it's slow. >> it's 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 didn't work but the old analogue phone with the cord, the best thing you could get. >> don't get rid of your landline. >> i don't even know my home phone number. i have it for security -- for the alarm -- >> that's it. >> so besid...

Much of that is down in country. >> it's been fascinating trying to get information from our crews in egypt. they're 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. this is how others other countries are trying to help egypt tweet. >> this is showing how much help t...

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 it's out there. anyone can look out their window. so people don't really need to know anymore where to show up to join a rally. >> right. the internet has been al...