The Internet in Cuba Is so Bad That Cubans Had to Invent Their Own
Johnny Harris - Vox
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October 7, 2015
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Cuba’s really terrible internet, explained (Vox)

A few years ago, some computer gamers based in Havana strung a small web of ethernet cables from house to house so they could play video games together. The network continued to grow quietly, and today it's called StreetNet: a bootleg internet for Havana with more than 10,000 users.

It was an innovation forged by necessity in a country where only 5 percent of citizens have access to the uncensored internet.

Watch the video to learn why Cuba's internet is stuck in 1995.

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