Parts of Taos are centuries old, and now a major wireless and Internet outage has temporarily taken life in the town back in time.
(Credit: Taos.org/Lenny Foster)
Call me inverse Marty McFly, for today I’m writing from the faraway world of the 1980s.
Or at least that’s the the era that comes to mind in my home base of Taos, N.M., since about 7:30 Wednesday evening, when one of CenturyLink’s fiber-optic lines east of town was severed, knocking out virtually all cell phone service and much of the Internet access in town.
Perhaps you’ve thought about what it would be like to go back to another technological age before ubiquitous smartphones and 4G. Maybe your older relatives long for just such a digital apocalypse. Or maybe, like me, you just watch too many end-of-the-world movies and TV shows. But — whatever the reason — perhaps you’ve wondered how you would handle such a low-tech scenario. If you’re one of the many who’ve endured big storms like Katrina or Sandy, you already know the answer.
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