From 80 Days Around the World to 80 Days in the Dark
For 80 days and counting, developers and citizens in Iran have faced a near-total blackout of access to the global internet, disrupting work, communication, and livelihoods. The outage has severed access to essential development tools, package managers, cloud services, and social platforms critical for business and daily life. This prolonged disconnection has revealed how deeply modern economies and communities depend on global digital infrastructure.
- ▪Iranian developers have been unable to access external servers, including GitHub, npm, PyPI, and Docker, for over 80 days.
- ▪Critical platforms like Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, and cloud-based development tools are completely unreachable inside Iran.
- ▪Many Iranians relied on these platforms for business, education, and family communication, with no viable offline alternatives.
- ▪The internet disruption has exposed the fragility of local digital ecosystems when cut off from global networks.
- ▪Even tools believed to be local depend on external services, which fail when international connectivity is lost.
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