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The Teenagers Who Wired Romania
Teens’ DIY internet in Bucharest grows into a network rivalling telcoms companies.
Bucharest, 2000. A group of teenagers begin a chaotic DIY project - stringing cables between apartment blocks to share a single internet connection. What starts as a scrappy workaround grows into something far bigger: a sprawling, improvised network that catches the attention of telecom giants. Told by those who built it, this is the extraordinary story of how a homemade system became the backbone of a city - a reflection of what the internet was meant to be… and what it became.
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