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This switch turned off 1/3 of the Internet. Or at least it did in the earliest days of ARPANET in 1970, where it controlled the key BBN node in Boston. For better or worse, it no longer works (I tried flipping it when I visited the company). https://t.co/ilNW953A8g

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