What happens when an entire country is wiped offline?
If you’ve ever fallen into a fit of rage after your internet connection has stopped working, spare a thought for the entire nation of Tonga. The tiny country, an archipelago of 169 islands in the Pacific Ocean with a population of 105,000, was recently knocked offline when an underwater volcanic eruption sent shock waves under the sea, severing the nation’s only fibre-optic link to the rest of the internet.
Losing its internet connection was only one of
