Egypt is back online

February 2, 2011 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Breaking tech news: We noticed that traffic from Egypt just started coming back to the Opera Mini servers. See graph below where the most recent hits are indicated to the right and the gap below are days without any activity from Egypt:

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TamilWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:22:27 PM
EdwardWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:22:38 PM
This is a good step forward!
HaloTechnologyWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:23:55 PM
yes
Mahmoud Sayed HamadyWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:29:17 PM
Yes Yes
NecromanWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:30:18 PM
Good news everyone
ElizabetElizaWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:34:14 PM
good
omar3333Wednesday, February 2, 2011 12:42:06 PM
finaly net net
Aleksander AasWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:44:36 PM
Sweet!
Ahmed Salah El-DienWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:45:11 PM
Yea Finally . after 5 Days.
zbzmWednesday, February 2, 2011 12:45:17 PM
hannes3120Wednesday, February 2, 2011 1:20:57 PM
1 Click on Saturday Evening?
MohammadWednesday, February 2, 2011 1:22:55 PM
Good luck bros. \m/
moghalWednesday, February 2, 2011 1:32:36 PM
lovely:jester:
AKSHAY KUMARWednesday, February 2, 2011 1:45:31 PM
nice news
AmaZingerWednesday, February 2, 2011 1:46:16 PM
Hello, Egypt! Welcome back to the ~~serious business~~ internets.
Hope you wouldn't harm anybody there for some ideas, no matter what they are.
moghalWednesday, February 2, 2011 1:58:04 PM
:heart:
wazzup105Wednesday, February 2, 2011 2:04:19 PM
Welcome back !
ArturWednesday, February 2, 2011 2:05:23 PM
Originally posted by hannes3120:

1 Click on Saturday Evening?

Nice one.
grape apeWednesday, February 2, 2011 2:31:58 PM
YES WELCOME BACK:yes:
Charles SchlossWednesday, February 2, 2011 2:33:19 PM
JenniferWednesday, February 2, 2011 2:33:57 PM
This is a cool graph, thanks for sharing.
slackwrdaveWednesday, February 2, 2011 3:03:14 PM
Post very much appreciated.
Alexander PataridzeWednesday, February 2, 2011 3:06:07 PM
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Celestine NnajiWednesday, February 2, 2011 4:51:20 PM
That is good news.
PozsonyiMarkWednesday, February 2, 2011 5:00:09 PM
that's good news!
Daniel HendrycksWednesday, February 2, 2011 5:06:08 PM
Léon McGregorWednesday, February 2, 2011 5:12:46 PM
looks like someone got lucky on saturday
Nathan RodriguezWednesday, February 2, 2011 6:24:48 PM
Good news !
LilleHerbernWednesday, February 2, 2011 7:33:14 PM
Keep on the peaceful and good spirit!
Good luck to all the egyptian people!
d4rkn1ghtWednesday, February 2, 2011 7:38:24 PM
OkraThursday, February 3, 2011 1:25:52 AM
And in related news the traffic in Tunisia picked up from essentially zero before January 13 to over half a million pages per day at the end of January.
₣ıđø Ðıđø™Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:46:06 AM
It's finally back
Patrick BishopThursday, February 3, 2011 2:46:32 AM
So much for the freedom of the net when governments can turn it off it certainly makes me think of my own personal freedoms here in Australia.Our government is at the moment attempting to get every house onto a fibre network which is supposed to be a good thing but now Im not so sure.We cant trust our lot of politicians anymore than they can in Egypt,or any other Israeli/American puppet state.hmm wondering about some kind of satelkite system or maybe just go back to smoke signals any Ideas
Joshua PhelpsThursday, February 3, 2011 3:00:45 PM
I remember going without Internet. Drove me to the point of even-greater insanity for me. D:

Try going without it for MONTHS. o.O
Niko Lecalles MartinThursday, February 3, 2011 8:34:11 PM
finally
Cutting SpoonFriday, February 4, 2011 2:37:04 AM
Great! Naturally this would be one of the first places to know!
AshraF DeeFFriday, February 4, 2011 2:43:46 AM
yeeeeeeeeeees
samuel johnsonFriday, February 4, 2011 4:40:52 AM
It is step toward maintaining peace and other.
Finding-TruthFriday, February 4, 2011 5:21:22 AM
Opera Mini, I love you! My Egyptian brothers & sisters keep going, you will win.
May God almighty help you in this
Douglas ElliottFriday, February 4, 2011 11:40:19 AM
I wish the people to have a democratic society-one which is not corrupt but fair.
Douglas Elliott
nlesgirlFriday, February 4, 2011 2:27:05 PM
Very good news. God Bless You All. Hope even further good news is reported soon.
Muhammad AamirFriday, February 4, 2011 6:39:33 PM
slackwrdaveSaturday, February 5, 2011 1:18:57 AM
Originally posted by 0x29a:

Pulled out the ol' 56k modem I keep for emergencies and made do with that.

Speaking of dialup, I read that someone opened up a big bank of modems in France to take calls from Egypt as a stopgap measure for emergency Internet during the cutoff.

I like a good workaround like that.
Jibesh PatraSaturday, February 5, 2011 2:23:54 AM
Good news
DANIALSaturday, February 5, 2011 2:27:58 AM
DANIALSaturday, February 5, 2011 2:33:09 AM
only:cheers:
vivySunday, February 6, 2011 12:43:24 AM
we love opera
razashamshiSunday, February 6, 2011 5:50:55 AM
we love opera
JordanlordSunday, February 6, 2011 7:32:13 AM
Good morning
aQuantSunday, February 6, 2011 3:27:23 PM
Yeah!It's good news.